The girls love dancing, and as I have said before, the dancing is pretty inappropriate. So on Monday I taught the girls a Hannah Montanan dance. They really loved it, even the older girls. It took me over a week to get the hang of this dance, but all the girls picked it up pretty quickly. The song is called Hoedown Throwdown, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkITjgLiqkM
Monday night we fought back against all the bugs in our kitchen. I bought some raid, so we let it rain with that stuff in the kitchen. Before we sprayed the kitchen we decided that we should clean it first. While we were doing that, we moved the fridge out of the corner and what we found was so gross. There were sooooooooooo many bugs; it was disgusting. Our sandals were very useful that night. Behind the fridge we found an old box of oatmeal that didn’t belong to any of us. The box was crawling with a ton of bugs. We didn’t even open the box because we were afraid of what we would find, so we just threw the box out. We think that that box was one of the main sources the bugs went after. We sprayed the kitchen a few times that night. For the next couple of days there weren’t really that many bugs. However, now, I’m starting to see more and more. Our landlady offered to fumigate our apartment, which I’m all for because I just want these bugs gone, but my roommates do not feel that comfortable with having the fumes in the apartment. The bug problem isn’t too terrible. They stay contained in the kitchen for the most part and they only really come out at night, so I can deal with it. However, if it gets worse, we’re going to see if it’s possible for them to only spray in the kitchen. I’ll keep ya’ll posted! Here’s one of the videos we made while killing the bugs:
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2915492241072
On Tuesday, I continued teaching the dance to a few of the girls. For some reason there was a lot of crying by many different girls this day. I saw one girl run out of the porch, so I ran after her to see what she was doing. When I turned the corner, I saw her picking up her shoe and just asked her if everything was ok, and she burst into tears. She went and sat next to a tree. I asked her if she wanted to be left alone and she said no, so I asked her if it was ok if I sat by her, she said yes, and then I told her if she wanted to talk about it she could but she didn’t have to talk to me. She cried for a few more seconds then she came closer to me and kind of nestled into my body and started bawling. It was so sad to see her upset like that, but I hope the fact that she had someone to cry into helped her feel better. Once she finished crying, she took my hand and we went inside to work on her bracelet she was making.
We actually had a pretty nice day on Wednesday. One of the Tias took about half the girls somewhere for most of the day, so work was pretty relaxing and quiet for a change. Also, this was my last day of work for about a week because the girls went to the beach on Thursday. They will be at the beach for 10 days. Next week I’ll be joining them Wednesday-Friday. Hopefully that goes well!
Later that night, a big group of us met up at this restaurant/bar to officially welcome the new coordinator and the new intern. Normally, I am too wiped to do anything social after work, but with the combination of a relaxing day at work and not having work the next day, I was able to power through my tiredness (plus I took a quick nap beforehand, always helpful!). It was a fun night! I got made fun of for ordering a White Russian, apparently that’s not that common of a drink. Oh well, ha, it’s my favorite and it’s tasty! I’m pretty sure everyone was just jealous of my awesome drink ☺
During my two days off, I studied a lot of Spanish, worked out, updated the blog a few times, and read Harry Potter. I finished chapter 2, very exciting! Even though it takes me a good bit to read Harry Potter, it’s so neat to be able to understand the story in Spanish. This past week I fed my friend’s cat (she went to Patagonia for the week). She lives pretty close to me, so I usually just run to her apartment and then run back. While I was running to her place one day, I tripped over something and fell. I have no idea what I tripped over, knowing me though I probably just tripped over my own feet, but I felt like I was falling forever ha. I was able to complete a couple thoughts before I actually hit the ground because I kept trying to catch myself, but failed miserably. I didn’t get scratched up or anything, so the fall wasn’t bad at all. I fell right in front of this couple, and they came over to check on me. My immediate response was, “I’m ok. I’m ok,” of course in English. I then realized I was speaking English so switched over to Spanish. I felt dumb for falling, but for also speaking English ha. Oh well, good times!
The only book I brought down here with me is my Spanish Harry Potter. I figured I didn’t need to be reading books in English while down here; that I should practice my Spanish as much as possible. It worked out pretty well in Argentina. However, I had a TV in my room, so I could fall asleep to TV shows in English. Here, I do not have a TV, and I have really really missed reading. At the VE office, there is a whole bookshelf full of English books, so I have been reading books from there. I read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (a really good book, if you like his other books you’ll like this one), and I just finished reading A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. This was a really great book. It’s about his life growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father. He also wrote Running with Scissors. I haven’t read that yet, but I really want to now, just have to wait till I get home. I started my next book last night; we’ll see how that one goes.
Two big things happened this week. The first, which isn’t that big compared to the next one, is that I bought boxed milk for the first time since I have been down in SA for the past 4 and a half months (wow I’ve been gone for a good bit, crazy!). The reason why this is a big deal is because they do not refrigerate their milk, it’s kept on the selves. That freaks me out a bit. But I have really missed eating cereal, so I gave in. It’s been a good week of eating cereal; I’m almost done with my second box ha. The other big news, which is better than my milk situation, is that Jason’s older sister got married the other day. However, her family didn’t even know she was engaged (she doesn’t have a bad relationship with her family or anything like that). She had been engaged since January, and they went and got married at a courthouse. Travis is moving out of the country for a bit and he's going to try and become a legal citizen where he's going, so to make things easier for Sara when she moves out there, they got married quickly (they were planning on getting married anyways). That's so exciting though, I'm really happy and excited for them. This summer she wants to have the reception in Colorado, so hopefully I can make that!
I cannot believe I have already been in Santiago for a little over a month. It’s crazy how time really does fly down here. I feel like I have been away from home forever, and I really do miss everyone, but I know I will be home in no time. I’m pretty much halfway through with my South America trip. CRAZY!
Until Next Time,
Liz
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