Sabado

Sabado (Saturday) is a free day. In the morning I went to the school which has the best Internet connection. Another student told me about Skype as a way to make calls very cheaply over the net, and for 3 cents a minute I called Melissa.

You probably know of my love (?) for the Cowboys, but let's face it, I wasn't going to give Cristian a Mike Vick shirt! Here he is modeling it:



And here:



After doing mi tarea (homework), I enjoyed the afternoon. Mangoes are in season, so the next door neighbor was doing some harvesting:



And flowers are always in bloom:



Very relaxing--I'm getting spoiled!!

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Viernes

Day Two of classes went well--gracias a Dios and to Richard Lorenz, I have not forgotten as much as I thought, and am now working on complex verbs-- would have xxxx, might have xxx. Not hard by themselves, but with everything else going on in the sentence--crazy!!

Here I am with mi maestra Anna:


(she is prettier than she is in this photo)

Anna is the one I spoke of whose husband has been working in Houston for over a year, not able to get home to see his wife and young daughters. Tough.

OK--here is my hangout, the Via Via:


They have email access and cold Salva Vida beer. And it's 75 degrees! Am I a lucky guy or what?!?



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I made it!

Tuesday was quite a day, going from this:



Over this:



To this:



It was a fun challenge going from plane to bus to mototaxi to the Alvarado home, where I stayed last year.

Classes begin today in the afternoon. Soon I will be reminded of how much I've forgotten!!

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