ok, so i am going to try to answer questions that i never answered.

yes, ames, the apt is huge. three separate bedrooms, kitchen, common area, indoor-outdoor patio, balcony. i am hoping francisco will go in on a frig with me this weekend, otherwise, i am going to suck it up and buy one.

kristin, the person over my boss is the vice-rector who i do not really know and speaks no english anyway. basically, she is the head honcho. i hope to be able to keep up with these blogs, but it will less than now probably. i teach two hours out of 8, so lots of spare time!

the new profs are doing well. arash speaks 5 langauges, so he rocks. sally is super nervous because, nicole is nicole and gave her no support, help, etc. arash and i have calmed her a bit. she taught for two years in japan, so is used to esl. all of our first classes went well! i am helping them realize that this job is what they make it. the boss won´t ever be here, so we get what we put in like so many other things in life. we all wish there was a structure, organization, help-line, etc, but as their is not, we are our own support group.

sally is the new prof. she is 25 and from britland. she is pretty nice and her spanish is quite poor so she is having a rough go of it right now, but she is getting on better. all the other spanish profs love her (after all she is a guera) and so she has made fast friends! she seems pretty chill overall. the guys down here love a woman with some meat on her bones, so most like her and she gets some funny comments when we all walk down the street. she will be fine i think.

arash has a live-in mexican girlfriend, so he is already fine.

caroline, yes, all the profs have different accents. some are super hard to understand, but whatever. all the english teachers have very different accents as well, so what are you gonna do? the profs from the north, chihuahua, sonora, etc. speaks really really fast. this group includes my roomie victor, who honestly, i don´t really even talk to anymore. francisco is pretty much ignored by him as well, and francisco (nicknames for this name are paco, pancho, chico and another that i forget, kind of like bill, billy, will, willie) tells me that he has also noticed that victor seems to speak unusually fast ariound me. forget him. i have other friends who all think he is weird, so it seems we are in agreement. strangely, it seems as though he is some jealous boyfriend or girlfriend. he won´t talk to me and acts all weird. good god. glad other profs finally arrived and rescued me. this situation could have turned ugly!


ok, so that should answer most questions. don´t forget to comment! none of you fools email me anymore (not true c-line, big a, tina, cuba, ebc), so if you are reading this, write something!!!

later skaters.

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