Wednesday:
Spanish Level: This morning the phone rang, Wilbert was asleep he has been working overnights this week, Carmen was shopping and Stephanie was at school so I answered the phone. It was Carmen’s sister in law and I told her where everyone was and she said I did pretty good with the Spanish! All this was in Spanish of course.
The mail man came by on a motorcycle. I have no idea how they deliver mail here as there are no addresses on any buildings and no street signs either, or only a few on the main road. They give directions by what something is close to or next to and often by who owns the building. A lot of folks get lost as you could imagine.
My host mom is a great cook. After dinner tonight she took me to her brother’s store and we bought some ice cream bars for the family. An ice cream truck could really make some $$ here. I watched the end of Shrek II with subtitles in Spanish. Also we watched the news how about that man with 40 wives??? and a show Carmen likes a lot, a spoofy weekly show sort of like ‘SOAP’ was back in the US I forget the name of it?.
I gave Carmen the host gifts tonight (some water guns and some nice book marks) thanks Aunt Carol! Stephanie reads a lot and loved the book marks she has Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia. Carmen loved the water guns.
For those of you trying to contact me; I have used the internet 2 days now at a café here but the connection is VERY slow. It takes about 30 minutes to pull up my email and reply to about 2 notes. If I don’t type the note fast enough the email ‘times out’ and I have to start over. This is sometimes challenging as most of the letters are rubbed off on the keyboards. I have not been able to get my Vphone to make calls from the café PC’s either. I am receiving your emails and voice mails. Hopefully I can find a place to use my laptop over the weekend and to catch some of the Auburn game. WAR EAGLE! I write these posts in the mornings at home, save to a thumb drive and load at the café so it is faster. I don’t have internet at home. I miss you all! Wish you were here!
Spanish Level: This morning the phone rang, Wilbert was asleep he has been working overnights this week, Carmen was shopping and Stephanie was at school so I answered the phone. It was Carmen’s sister in law and I told her where everyone was and she said I did pretty good with the Spanish! All this was in Spanish of course.
The mail man came by on a motorcycle. I have no idea how they deliver mail here as there are no addresses on any buildings and no street signs either, or only a few on the main road. They give directions by what something is close to or next to and often by who owns the building. A lot of folks get lost as you could imagine.
My host mom is a great cook. After dinner tonight she took me to her brother’s store and we bought some ice cream bars for the family. An ice cream truck could really make some $$ here. I watched the end of Shrek II with subtitles in Spanish. Also we watched the news how about that man with 40 wives??? and a show Carmen likes a lot, a spoofy weekly show sort of like ‘SOAP’ was back in the US I forget the name of it?.
I gave Carmen the host gifts tonight (some water guns and some nice book marks) thanks Aunt Carol! Stephanie reads a lot and loved the book marks she has Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia. Carmen loved the water guns.
For those of you trying to contact me; I have used the internet 2 days now at a café here but the connection is VERY slow. It takes about 30 minutes to pull up my email and reply to about 2 notes. If I don’t type the note fast enough the email ‘times out’ and I have to start over. This is sometimes challenging as most of the letters are rubbed off on the keyboards. I have not been able to get my Vphone to make calls from the café PC’s either. I am receiving your emails and voice mails. Hopefully I can find a place to use my laptop over the weekend and to catch some of the Auburn game. WAR EAGLE! I write these posts in the mornings at home, save to a thumb drive and load at the café so it is faster. I don’t have internet at home. I miss you all! Wish you were here!
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