One Week Later

Hey everybody!

I hope you all are doing well on the other side of the world.  Today has been a pretty good day.  We are just finishing up this several day long lesson on culture and other aspects of local life here taught by a very smart professor from America.  Afterwards, several of us got together to try and meet some local people at a nearby park, and we ended up playing soccer with a few new friends for a couple of hours.  It was a lot of fun, but very tiring.  I also thought I was a pretty good soccer player until I played with some guys here haha.  We were all exhausted after playing and so we found a really cheap place inside the park and bought several water bottles, which we all drank immediately like we hadn't had it in days.  Tonight we just had some fun in the house with our host family.  We had a pasta-like dish for dinner here, as well as Pepsi to drink, which was a real treat.  Honestly, the food here is oftentimes delicious but it does get old sometimes eating the same thing over and over again.  So this was a very tasty and much needed change.  We took some pictures, played with the kids, and had coffee for an after dinner drink.  I'm not much of a coffee drinker at all though, so I drank three small glasses of water to get rid of the flavor.

Yesterday was very exciting.  Sorry to be so cryptic about this, but just know that I was participating in the same awesome event that many of you were participating in yesterday.  I didn't understand much of what was going on, but it was really cool to take part in regardless.  Thankfully, a brilliant elderly woman took us upstairs and translated what was being said for us, so that was nice.  There was an English speaking man there, too, which was nice.

We are pretty much in the stage of our journey where we are visiting and trying to meet different people, while still really trying to learn as much as we can about the culture and the people here.

Thanks for reading, and I'll talk to youinsis again soon.