It has rained all day today and part of last night. It is craaaazy. It's been very steady too. And today I decided that I would walk home from a half way point which was nuts in retrospect. I got soaked on my walk home and it took longer than expected. Plus in Buenos Aires their sidewalks have no friction and my flip flops that have no traction cannot hold on to the ground. Therefore, this morning while on my way to the bus I totally wiped out and fell on my knees. Pretty embaressing. Plus, the only thing worse than falling down is falling down all alone b/c you have no one to laugh with! Then, on my way home I slipped at least 10+ time in my hour walk. People steered clear of me when they saw that.
Anyway, yesterday and today have been orientation days. I am in group five and apparently we are grouped by level. However, just b/c my transcript says I have 6 semesters worth of college spanish it doenst mean that I am actually very good at speaking or understanding somone else speaking. I think that I am going to get moved to a lower orientation group and I cannot wait. I feel like the dumb kid in class. :(
I cant tell if I am jetlagged or not. I dont think that it really effected me. I mean when you get like 3 hours of sleep in 24 hours and you are sitting on a plane for like 12 you really dont know what day it is let alone what time it is. Plus, I'm in orientation stuff all day from like 8:30 when I leave my house till like 7 when I"m home and showered. Then I eat dinner and there just isnt much time to think about even being jet lagged.
same with the whole late dinner thing. I didnt know if I could handle eating at like 7 or 8 but so far so good. I havent had to wait past 8ish yet though so the weekends might be ruff b/c everything is even later!
I realized that I havent described my house yet. I live on a busy street and that makes things LOUD. Even late at night its intense. It sounds like airplanes are taking off, not even kidding. The cars here speed like crazy as I've already mentioned and honk at everything and do not slowly increase speed but like blast off when the light turns green! Then, there are two bedrooms: mine and the girls from hungary. Christina (my host mom) sleeps on a couch in the living room. I guess she has a divider she puts up to give herself some privacy but I'm never awake when she is sleeping so I havent seen it yet. I'm guessing that she hosts exchange students for part of her income since she is sleeping in the living room. We also have a dining room table which is in the "living room/Christina's bedroom/the tv room" haha. The tv is usually on during dinner which is interesting b/c at the Kovic's this would NEVER happen. haha. We also have one bathroom and a kitchen. The bathroom has a bo-day? I dont know how to spell that or use the thing for that matter and I dont plan on using it. Christina never said anything about it so I just ignore it.
INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY: To take a shower, instead of pulling the little nob on the facet up you push it down! crazy huh? it keeps messing me up!
~Lizzie
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