day nine.

turns out, we did not go to chiriqui. my host mom found out that she has an important meeting tomorrow. so she said she is taking me to the beach on saturday.

not much to update... life today was pretty relaxed. a lot of the kids didnt have school today. i dont really know why... something about a teaching being sick i guess. so i didnt teach the second half of the day. went to the kindergarden, and was done for the day at 10:30. i came back to the house and played a lot of cards with my host siblings. i helped cook. and i bonded with the servant slash maid we have here. (i had to type the word slash because the keyboard here is very confusing and i cannot figure out how to type that symbol) the maid slash nanny slash servant is nineteen... younger than me, married, and doesnt know any english, so it was really hard to bond. turns out, she just loved learning about facebook. who woulda thought. i walked around the neighborhood with the siblings. my house is in a suburb-like location, of course on a much smaller scale. the houses are really nice, and it is super safe around here. but there is nothing to do unless you go into the downtown of las tablas... and even then its just a couple of markets, one bar, and a central park.

tomorrow i am going to a new school, because there are no english classes in my normal schools on fridays. im going to the high school, so the kids will be much older. the kids are in their last levels of english, and so i will see what their english turns out to be. im expecting to mostly shadow the english teacher and answer questions about the united states. should be good tho. the older kids will be able to talk to me much more than the younger ones... maybe ill find out some good juice about the town here.

after that, im gonna go meet up with the other volunteers that are within a half hour of me. we´re gonna walk around the town of pedasi, so ill get to see another area.