Este Fin De Semana

Last night my sister and I were so pumped to watch "She's The Man!" So we brought out her mattress from her room and placed it on the floor of the dinning/living room to watch the movie. They don't really have comfy couches to sit on, only hard lawn type furniture in their living room. So it felt nice to just relax on her mattress and watch a movie. I was exhausted from the week so of course I feel asleep but I made it through about 3/4 the movie which was good! Before the movie we watched the end of Aladdin in Spanish! I love that movie : ) But we watched "She's the Man" in English. My sister doesn't speak English so I wonder how much she could understand. But it was a soccer movie so I think she liked that.

Last night after I fell asleep in my room I was woken up by this loud noise!!!! It was sooo loud, it shook the house and my room! At first I honestly didn't know what it was I thought it may have been gun shots or something. It was just this continuous banging that lasted a 1/2 hour or so that gave me a headache. After I kept listening I realized that they were drums! The loudest drums I have ever heard in my life at 11:30 at night! They just kept on playing them and I figured they were playing them going up and down the street because they would get louder as they got closer to our street. Along with the drums were whistles and people screaming! At first I was startled and was annoyed they were keeping me up. I figured it must have been a parade for the soccer game that is tonight.

This morning around the breakfast table I asked my family what it was. They said their neighbors were having a party. A party?! I have never heard of a party this loud. He said yea and that a few of our neighbors called the police because they were so loud!

So far today I walked to the market with my sister to buy some food goods. Again they don't have much food in the house, they buy only essential food right before the meal. We are going to have a little party watching the soccer game tonight at 8 and I decided to make guacamole and chips for my family so Pamela and I bought the ingredients at the store today. And tomorrow morning I asked my family if I could make them breakfast and they said yes very happily, I'm going to make french toast!

Pamela has math class till 3 today. I would hate to have classes on Saturday. But after classes I asked her if she wanted to go to a dance class with me. She already knows how to dance but I don't so we are going to go to class to learn the salsa, merengue and tango! It should be fun and I'm glad I have a sister that I can do activities with.

I was asked what my favorite thing I did so far by one of the students and after thinking about it my favorite thing to do is laugh with my family! Even though I can't understand everything that is going on all the time. I can always understand a simple smile or enjoy laughing. My family is very hospitable and gracious and when we start laughing it makes me feel right at home!