Saturday, June 30, 2007

Fani left this morning about 9 to go visit her granddaughters. I slept in until 9:30 and then enjoying dozing in my bed until 10. I got up, got dressed, read my Bible, and had breakfast. Fani had left everything sitting out for me. I ate my usual breakfast, but did not finish all the hot chocolate. I washed the dishes! I still didn’t know what I wanted to do so I checked my email and posted some pictures to my blog. I looked up some lyrics to the song that quit on us in class as part of our homework. Then, I snuck to the other bathroom and “stole” the broom and swept my room. Anne would have been horrified! After sweeping, I “took” a bottle of bathroom cleaner and cleaned the sink in my bathroom. It was quite dirty. Fani cannot see very well and so I don’t think she realizes how dirty everything is. I am not sure what happened to the cleaning lady (who broke the lightbulb in the microwave) because I certainly haven’t seen her or the proof that she has come since I have! I also shook out the bathmat which has been collecting hair and fuzzies for the last five years, I think. I love cleaning! Hehe! I worked on my blog some more and caught up on my entries from the last two days. I listened to music and danced around my room. I worked on my last assignment for my multicultural class from Alaska and sent it off to Dr. Ross. I emailed my student teaching cooperating teachers and filled out a professional development form that took forever! By this time, it was about five, so I left to go check out the location of a church that Tammy wants to go to tomorrow. I walked there and found out that church is at 10:30. I then walked back along Cabildo and stopped at a grocery store called Norte. I bought some more crackers, Oreos with dulce de leche in the middle (these people are obsessed down here!), and a jug of water. The jug of water is 5 liters and it only cost about $1.50. I am tired of drinking tap water! I stood in line for about 10 minutes before realizing that there was a fast lane for people with less than 10 items, so I moved and was through in no time. Being the brilliant person that I am, I did not consider the fact that I was about 10 blocks from my house! The plastic bag was cutting into my hand because 5 liters of water is a lot and so I alternated hands and then started carrying it like a baby. There were about one million bazillion people on the street and they all were walking about 5 feet an hour and then they would stop to look in the store windows right in the middle of the sidewalk. (There is no exaggeration in that last sentence, just so you know!) I thought I was never going to make it home! I stopped at the grocery store near my house and bought bread and then went home. Fani was still gone, so I took a shower. I realized that when you turn on the water, the hot water heater turns on. I let the shower run for about five minutes before getting in and it was actually warm! Hurray for a non-iceberg shower! It was not hot, but it was definitely warm. After my shower, I turned on my TV (for the second time since I’ve been here!) and watched a bunch of commercials and the middle of Jumanjii. My favorite commercial is the one for Push Pops because I like the way they say it, “Poosh Popes.” Fani came home and I went out and talked to her. She had a good visit with her family, but was very tired. She put her stuff away and got dinner for me about a half hour later. I had soup, a very over-microwaved pizza, and chocolate mousse. Fani was telling me stories about her daughters’ boyfriends before they were married and their husbands and her friends’ children’s spouses and I understood the stories (for the most part), but got horribly confused about who did what! Fani went to bed and I went to my room and checked my email, organized some stuff, and wrote this blog. I am going to read for a while and probably journal before going to bed.