Tuesday, November 2, 2010

After yesterday's posts, I had a few people make comments about the next post. Sorry to disappoint, but nothing major has happened. I do have a break right now, so I have time to talk about my relatively boring day. I got out of school yesterday at 3:05, which was lovely! Last week I was at school until 5:45...it was a rough day. Anyways, on the way to school yesterday, I was walking with two girls and we were chit chatting about this and that. When we got to school, they asked me how I got home. I told them I walk back, but I am unsure how to get back. They told me they would wait for me. I was pretty excited about. So, 3:05 comes and I ran into one of the girls. She told me that she had a meeting and could not walk back with me. She called this boy, Ernest, over to walk me home. I don't think he was to happy with the idea, but he walked with me back. Don't worry, I talked his ear off and asked a million questions. After we parted ways and he headed back to the hostel and I headed over to my living area, I had three little (4 or 5 year old) boys run over to me. It was like I was the high light of their day. They were in love with my watch and ring. They kept saying, "Auntie, pretty watch, Ooooh look at the pretty ring." So cute. The kids in the village can seriously make your day. They are always so happy to see you. They just wanted to hold your hand and look at everything you have. Makes me smile just thinking about them. I hope they greet me again today. After that fun encounter, I headed back to put on some different clothes. Walking to and from school is about a 10-15min walk, but when I get back, I am sweating like a pig. It stinks...literally! So I changed, and went to find everyone. I found out they were all in the computer. Funny thing, I had been on the computer all day. I really didn't want to get on the computer again. Lucky for me, the other person, Paul, who is at a school similar to mine, was also on the computer all day. He and I sat outside and talked about the crazy things that happen in the school. Very eye opening compared to the states. After everyone slowly came back from the computer lab, we all sat around outside in the nice weather talking about our days. Our living arrangements are pretty cool. We all have our own rooms with one other room attached by a bathroom that we share. We each have a door to the outside and a door to the bathroom. There are 7 of these house/dorm things, one being the kitchen and one not being used by us. In the middle of the house/dorms, there is a pavilion area where we sit and talk, which is where we were yesterday. The weather yesterday was perfect. It was warm, maybe 80's but overcast. It was nice not to have the sun beating down and there was no rain. Usually, from what I have seen, if the sun is not out, the rain is. Yesterday, we had neither, although it looked like it was going to rain. I was a little worried about walking home. When it rains here, it pours! Anyways, sitting outside talking with the group was the second high light of my day, the first being those 3 little boys. Around 5:30, we headed down to dinner at my professors house. For dinner we had pork chops, which are VERY little with...you guessed it...rice! It was a yellow type rice. I was very glad it was not white rice, but I did not eat very much. After dinner, we talked about writing lessons and such for our classes. Then we headed back to our rooms and chit chatted for a while. I was super tired last night, so I passed out by 10:00. Woke up this morning still feeling tired, but breakfast was good. We had toast for the first time. I was beginning to think they did not have toasters because usually we get bread not toasted. We also had Laughing Cow cream cheese. It was amazing, but I am very hungry right. I wish there was enough so I could have had more. Today is the first day I have been starving, like stomach making noises, and my host teacher decided she would show me what the students eat for snack. I was so excited! It looked like a hot dog. She picked one up and said "see," and then said,"let's go." Never asked me if I wanted one, which I REALLY did. Maybe I will be losing weight and my little friend, Edwardian, won't call me fat anymore. So, that's that. Right now I am in the teacher's lounge just waiting for it to be 11:55 so we can go to class and then LUNCH! Pretty sure we are going to have rice! Getting excited...not. Anyways, that is all for now. Tomorrow is the day I have a lot of down time. Expect a post tomorrow, but no promises!