5 de Sept

Okay its 9:14 on a Friday night and I bet you can’t guess the amazing fun thing I’m doing at site, yeh well I guess you can obviously because I’m typing, I’m sitting in bed writing my blog!! Woop woop!! I sure as hell say this is a far cry from my previous 4 years and what I spent doing the first weeks of September… Oh Delaware! Shall I continue, I believe so, Thursday was an interesting day, I went to “observe” the English teacher with her class at 9 and within 10 minutes of being there and listening to a celene dion song repeatedly she said she had a meeting come up and she needed to leave, would I mind watching the class. Ah-ha…yes I’m sorry to say I fell into the same trap of previous volunteers and of that I had been warned. The flakey teacher. Although, I did have a great time with the students, I kindly declined the offer from the teacher to return the following week or in the near future. Walking out on a class and leaving it to a volunteer is not called observing a class. But all in all it didn’t bother me that much. Then I spent the afternoon going to the market and picking up a pizera (whiteboard) for my charlas and classes, as well as, some yarn to calm my nerves and other cositas. I did also have a very satisfying talk with my sister about the reasons I was so tired and the need I have to rest often and the difficulties of constantly being wanted in my town to change everything in 1 week. I think at the rate of my exhaustion level I voiced it quite well using the comparison strategy…if you went to my town and had to have meetings all day and talk all day in English your brain would be tired too. Also, that when I go to my room with a cup of tea to read for a bit, no I do not want food or to be disturbed this is my me time and I need it to function, much like my exercise classes. (Which by the way I didn’t have today, so my body is a bit tense with stress and anxiety right now.) I hate this feeling, the one where your stomach is in knots and you feel like you should be doing 5 other things at the same time and nothing you’re doing at the moment is really utilizing your time efficiently. Hence the reason for the past hour I’ve been trying to do different things that I enjoy doing to calm me down, no luck yet hence the reason I’m writing this blog, it’s a more obligatory thing, this way at least I’m accomplishing something.

Today I had a pretty packed schedule, I was up and about because I had my artisan meeting at 10 but I wanted to clean my room first because I was up doing light research the night before. That lasted till about 2:30 just enough time for me to get home and eat something before tutoring at 3:30 till 5:30. After we had exercise or supposedly has it but the guy who promised me a key to the school flaked out and therefore by the time we waited around the estadio was occupado with men playing futbol so we just went home. Then, JT forgive me, I had to translate a backstreet boys song (As long as you love me) for my uncle, because my cousin will be singing it in some talent show…which is another whole story, like how they sing these songs without having a clue about the lyrics. Really funny ejemplo, es in the English class (remember I said something about Celiene Dion song on repeat) yeh it was her song something like …you set my heart on fire filled me with love, made me a woman… yeh well I’m pretty sure that’s not appropriate to sing to 13 and 14 year olds and even worse I didn’t mention she made me sing it …made is wrong asked me to and I hesitantly obliged…and solely for the pronunciation of the words… I just started dying laughing in the middle of it because I knew it was inappropriate singing made me a woman in front of the class. Oh the funny shit that goes on in my life now a days… Okay well that’s about it there’s other things like more about my reunion today I had with my artisans but you can see the pics I put up, its going to be really successful I believe, we came up with a color scheme and now we have prices left to think of which is the meeting on Tuesday and also the names of the bags……… =) (at this moment I like you all to image the part in The Sandlot when it’s the hot summer day and all the kids have the same thought…”THE POOL AT EAST!”) If you can’t understand what I’m saying I feel sorry for you, that you have lived this long and never seen the sandlot. I’m going for the Lizzie Kate Tote and the Posh Elizabeth dama hat with bow…I’ll let you know how that goes!!

Love you all CHAU!!! Ekh <3