GOOD NEWS!
I changed my keyboard to an international setting and now I learned how to make accent marks! Instead of copying and pasting from Google translate I just have to do key combinations :) I'm pretty stoked about that, I feel smart.
Funny story my host dad told me the other day: A past gringa's real dad asked him how old he was but doesn't speak much Spanish. He said ¿Cuantos anos tiene? To you, that probably looks right,but he missed a crucial tilde above the n. He should've said ¿Cuántos años tiene? Instead of saying "How old are you?" He asked Wladimir "How many anus's do you have?"
Speaking is coming to me soooo much better now. I must have just talked to my host mom for two hours straight and only struggled with a few words I had never learned. I love that I'm able to explain the concept and then they can teach me the word I lacked. The best thing is that I don't hesitate anymore. I just jump right in. They looove to talk here, love to chit chat, love to fill the silence with any chitter chatter in their mind. I don't sit and figure out what I'm going to say anymore, I just jump in. I'm also not afraid to ask for directions, talk to store personel for help. I can't leave this country.
Something that freaked me out yesterday, that some of you might have noticed I tweeted about, was the moon. I was doing homework hardcore (for once) and I looked up and noticed a sliver of light through the lace/drapes of my window and noticed it was the moon. I realized that its the same moon that you see in the United States. It really pulled me back home for a second, made me feel not so far away. I started thinking about the differences between here and home, the climate, the people, the relations. Its just crazy how there are different worlds within this world.
I love the culiquitaca dance/song. I'll have to videotape it one day and show everybody.
Cata taught me, Catalina. The one I met on the dieciocho holiday. She's such a sweet heart! You might have noticed a bunch of pictures of me and her on facebook, haha, her idea. Poor girl was so bored. I had no nail polish nor magazines (she's 15). I always got confused when people called for her because they'd say "Catita! o Cata!" which sounds really close to "Cati! o Catita!" jaja Actually they use the same nickname for the both of us: Cata o Catita.
Wellllll, I've got my bus tickets to Santiago... which leaves... TONIGHT. Holy shit. Thats exciting! I cannot wait to leave my computer here for 6 days. I hate being so attached to it. I don't mean to be, I'm not inseperable from it, but I always find myself on it. And getting distracted from tareas haha.
What else to say.
I'll have a hell of a lot to blog about when I get back from Buenos Aires I know. Until then!
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