Friday, June 6, 2008

I don't understand anything you are saying.

¡HOLA! I miss everyone so much but continue to have a wonderful time in GDL.

Last night we met a few of the other girl volunteers (from Austria, Germany, England, and Holand) at one of the bars next to the PA office. We spent like an hour there and then headed over to the salsa club that is like 10 minutes from the office, which is like 15 from our house. It was an interesting experience. It was like 1000000ºF in the club and everyone was a drunken mess. There are some sketchy, sketchy Mexican guys in there and when one came up to talk to me, I inconspiculously moved my ring to my left hand and turned it around. I'd hold it up to the guys and say "Soy casada." ("I'm married"). It was an easy way to make them go away. But my roommate Emily met a nice guy who is the friend of a volunteer's boyfriend. Because the staff memebers knew this boyfriend and his friend, they said it was safe for us to get a ride home with him so we didn't have to walk or take a cab. We ended up getting home at 12:30a and passing out.

Today we were back at work and we made better friends with the nurses. They told us fun places to go on the weekends, including the Tequila Train which takes you to Tequila and back with included food and free tequila. We are going to do that one weekend. I talked with a lot of the same patients today and met a new one, a 15 year old boy who was so nice! We talked about cooking, school, our families, etc. He will be back in 2 weeks for more treatment and we will be able to talk to him then. It was a slow day at work, but we are both liking it more and more every day.

Right now I'm in a nearby internet cafè (one much closer to my house that we just discovered today) and I was going to Skype but technology failed me again. I will go to Starbucks this weekend to Skype on Sunday. Email about dates.

Tomorrow Emily, Heather, and Tamsin (a volunteer from England) are going out to lunch in the city center, Centro (near Mercado Libertad) and then we are going to the Cultural Market that is a big open air market 10 minutes by bus from the Centro. I will buy everyone stuff!!

I MISS YOU ALL AND LOVE YOU ALL!

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