February 2, 2009

Happy Groundhog Day!!!
Hola, all! Today is the beginning of my 4th week here, but I still have another 4 weeks to go after this one. This last week went by pretty fast though, so I think the rest will also go fast.
This weekend was…interesting. Friday afternoon I threw up my lunch…I ate too much, but only because my house mom makes me feel guilty if I don’t eat everything! Anyway, I threw up twice and felt really bad and didn’t eat the whole rest of the day, and didn’t eat anything all Saturday either. But by Sunday I felt completely better.
Saturday I went with the Greenes to a play at their school, Beauty and the Beast. It was ok. Well produced, but the girl that played Belle wasn’t very good…so that was too bad. But I had fun nonetheless. 
Sunday we went to a Spanish speaking church because it was the Superbowl and they cancelled the evening English service haha. It was pretty neat…they sang “Ancient of Days,” and that other one that goes…I’ll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned….It was interesting the translations, because I knew that some of the words were not the same. It was all worshipping God, but they were definitely not saying the same things as the English versions. Which doesn’t really matter, but it was interesting. I understood about 1/16th of the service probably, which was disappointing, but I tried hard…
Then we went to this fast food restaurant called Pollo Campero, which is really popular I guess. It started in Guatemala, but there are some chains in the States too I heard. It wasn’t that good, but it was an experience I suppose.
I was excited for the first time in my life for the Superbowl! Only because I was in a foreign country, and its an American thing to do, and because my dad is from Pittsburgh and I had a reason to cheer for a team. But it ended up being the same old boring Superbowl it is back home, so I was a bit disappointed. It was worse because we don’t get the same commercials here, which is more than half the fun. Oh well, my team won but I was already asleep by that time haha.
I don’t really have any activities planned this week, except my salsa dancing class and a possibility of going to the Volcano Pacaya. Its only that I’ve heard stories of how of scary it can be, because you are so close to lava and you come back down in the dark and it’s a little dangerous. I’ve been putting off going, although it’s a real landmark; it would be really pathetic if I didn’t see it. I haven’t decided yet. I guess this week is as good as any for me to go. There’s not really a lot of activity opportunities this week.
We did get two new people in my house though. Marina, the Swiss girl that was here when I first came, left this weekend, we got Johanna here last Thursday, and then two people from the states came yesterday, named Mark and Lexi. They are boyfriend/girlfriend from Washington DC, although she grew up in the tri-cities, and he is from California. They seem very nice and I look forward to spending more time with them.
I don’t know what I’m going to do now…So many options. Go up on the roof, take a nap, go to the central square, read my Bible… Continue my quest for free, reliable internet…No sé.
Oh well…

I love and miss you much,
Noelle