Things are incredibly awesome here; it´s hard to take the time out to write entires like this. Last Monday Aleida (who has come to be my best friend here) and I baked cookies at my house for an English presentation. The first time around, we added a rotten egg, and it stunk so badly... all of us, adults included, were laughing so hard. We went back to the supermarket and returned the eggs for full refund and bought new ones. At least the cookies were great.
Thursday Kate and I ate Chinese food at the local restaurant, and it was pretty good, although I have to say I am a little disappointed by the thickness of the chow fun noodles here, and the lack of vegetables. Yes Mom, now I want my chicken chow fun with vegetables- novel concept!
Friday Aleida and I perused the department stores in Chorrera trying to find her something to wear for Gina´s impending quince años. We were not successful, but we ate slurpies and laughed hysterically and all was well.
Saturday during the day I went for a tour of Panamá with the other AFSers in Chorrera. It was really fun and I quite enjoyed connecting with the other exchange students in my town. Almost all of them speak German and I am learning to like that language. Now if only I could speak it...
That night I went to Gina´s quince años, which was an enormous party and the most fun I´ve had in a long time. I was out until 3 am, totally safely and soberly, dancing salsa and bachata and hanging with my school friends. Also, if you are trying to dance "modern," it is easier to do so to reggaeton than to techno. Can´t do anything with techno other than beatbox and spin some glowsticks.
Today I woke up at 7 (ouch!) for a big AFS meeting with everyone from Chorrera, Panamá, Colón, Chepo, and Arraiján. It mostly consisted of chilling by the poolside and looking at monkeys, as well as talking to AFS volunteers about how we were faring with our families. I made a new friend, an American in Colón, and had a good time talking about Dragonriders of Pern fandom...
Anywho. Hasta luego!
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That party sounds sooooo awesome... you'll have to teach me some of the salsa stuff, we haven't been in 3 weeks or so
okay, I´ll try. at the very least I can teach you some simple bachata. I´m going to miss all of the latin music here so much... I love salsa and merengue and it plays on the radio here... so nice.
That's awesome.
Awesome weekend around here, but I think you're going to have to wait for my fatty letter to get there. Or you can just ask Devlin....
hahaha yeah. not sure if I will send your letter this week or next due to the insane cost of developing film here, but it is entertaining. and whoo, I will probably ask devlin if he really calls me. :)
Fair enough. But you're also getting a 4 page letter written over the course of 5 days sometime next week. I'm pretty sure it includes everything you ever needed to know about life back here. At least until something more exciting happens.
We've had a dramatic week so far. We had thunder and lightening storms yesterday afternoon, and we just had a 5.6 earthquake 10 minutes ago. Tsunami tomorrow, tornado Thursday?
5.6? yikes! did things fall off the mantel or mantel equivalent?
Everything up here was fine, though I think Chloe said her monitor almost fell off the desk. Really not too bad though.
sounds like a rad life.
hey, did you get my letter?
no I haven´t got it yet. but I will check the post office and eagerly await it. :)
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