So the bathroom situation. There are community showers. Granted they're separate, but everyone on the floor shares 6 showers and 6 bathrooms. Because the school is old, we have to throw the toilet paper away instead of flushing it down the toilet. The RA's give us a roll of TP a month and if we run out we have to get our own from the store.
I've been meeting a lot of people, which is awesome. I changed all of my settings on my computer so I have to read everything except what I'm typing in English. I'm starting to think more in Spanish too...or maybe it's just that I'm thinking more ABOUT Spanish. LOL. I've only been here for 3 days and I already feel like I'm picking up on it all. The natives here are very kind and listen to our horrible Spanish and help us out. Some of them like to speak English with us because they want to work on their English.
I went with a couple friends to hang out at the gym just to watch, and ended up playing volleyball for two hours. So I think that we're going to go back tomorrow night and play. I did some homework tonight: looking up words for our next volleyball game. So we can try and talk to the natives instead of screaming English out at them.
The food is different. So far for every meal I've had rice, beans, salad and something else...and apparently that's not so healthy for you. Once Krista gets here, I'm going to be running so I won't gain the abroad 15...or whatever it may be. I really miss breakfast food. Since it's always my favorite meal, it's hard to put together that rice, beans and an apple are going to be my breakfast for awhile. Mom said she would make me biscuits and gravy when she comes to visit at Christmas.
I took my placement test and I didn't think it was that hard, but we get the results tomorrow so we'll see what level I'll be in. Pray I get into Advanced I.
I think I'm starting to get a cold. My body isn't used to this weather. It's cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon and cold at night. I should drink a lot more water.
Well I'm gonna try and update this every week and upload pictures. My camera battery randomly died so I haven't been able to take any pictures since leaving Buenos Aires, but I'm charging it tonight so I'll start taking pictures of everything. Back to the updating...as much as I want to be on my computer keeping in touch with everyone, I really need to not be on it as much. Since we're just going through orientation we have a lot of free time and our roommates are taking their finals so we can't really hang out with them, but classes start on Monday so I'm assuming that everything will change.
Thanks for the prayers! Te amo! (I love you)
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