Weekend

TO GET NEW ENTRIES, CONTINUE TO CLICK ON THE ¨2007¨to the upper right hand corner. (There should be 6 in julio). Am trying to correct the problem but it is hard when the website is in spanish.



Had a very busy weekend. Friday morning I finished A Seperate Peace, which I liked a lot. That afternoon, Alexis and I planned out what we want to do each week for the rest of the summer curriculum wise.

Saturday--- So anyway, earlier the week my host brother asked me to go camping with him and his boy scout friends. It sounded cool, so I agreed. Well, I was in for a whole lot of suprises. First of all, here, its just called Scouts, meaning its a co-ed group. Second, he is like the boss of a troop, so it was me, him, and 3 of his friends his age, and 25 12-18 y-o boys and girls. It was actually really fun to get to talk to some younger kids. Another thing, I´ve been noticing is while gender roles are much rigid here, boys and girls are always really mixed while growing up, where I feel that in the US they are often more in seperated groups. Anyway, well the big surprise is that it wasn´t camping at all, but instead, a night hike. So that means, we hiked up a mountain and back down. We left at 7pm, and got back at 7am. It as really cool, becuase it was a full moon and a crisp night. It was really horrible, because you are walking at 4am in the morning, trying not to kill yourself and keep your eyes open. So it was really cool and horrible mixed up into one (especially since I couldnt mentally prepare for it, or in orhter words, take a monster siesta before). However, I was glad I did it.

Unfortunately, the bulk of this post was supposed to be pictuere from the hike, but the comp here isnt reading my camera, so please hold on a day.

Also, another little thing that I have noticed is how much I fucking love any American import. Always speaking spanish and trying to udnerstand it, is fun and good, but also really tiriging. So i´ve been finding myself enjoying really shitty american imports, purely because I can understand them. For example, in the car, on the radio came on a terrible Maroon 5 song, and I was rocking out. I find myself cracking up at Notting Hill, the Hugh Grant Julia Roberts romatic comedy, purely beucase i could understand everything so easily. You really take advantage of how easy ur native language is for you. I guess if anything, being in a foreign country might make me a lover of reading after all.

That is all. I´m thinking about going to Isla de Plata next weekend (the poor mans galapagos, it has eveyrthing except for the tortoises). Also, i have detail lesson planned thru tuesday already, so this is going to be a stress free sunday night, yhes.