5 days

I've been meaning to get on this but things somehow have been really busy, and when I get home I just skype for a bit and go to bed. The picture is from Friday night, we went to the disco, it was on a boat. In the middle is Nina, she looks like a gringa but isn't, and Ruth is on the right, she's engaged to Jake Guzik who came down here a few years ago. She left this morning for Caracas to have an interview for her visa to come to the US. It's called a noviovisa or something like that, when she gets it once she gets to the US she has three months to get married. So that's cool. It'll be great next summer I'll be able to go visit her! She's planning on leaving in January. So yes, disco. I went with these two, and also Jose Antonio, Javier who is Nina's boyfriend, and Claudia who is my age and lives down the street. Ruth and Claudia worked on teaching me how to dance haha it was interesting but really fun. The music they listen to is really good, some of it is the same music we hear in the US like pitbull, etc, or remixes of that, but a lot of it is just spanish too. That was a really fun night.
Since I got here, I've gone to 4 masses and one liturgy of the word. In 5 days. So that's a lot. I'm going to the church soon to start figuring out when to have English classes. On Saturday, Claudia and Jose came over to practice their English. I brought them each a letter from their friend Briana who goes to UST, she was here for a month last January with a group from there. They were both in English, Jose could read his pretty well so I helped Claudia with words she didn't know and pronounciation. She's already pretty good at English though. Pronounciation is a big thing though for both of them, especially vowels since e in spanish sounds like an a in english, etc.
Yesterday we hung out at Javier's house for most of the day. We made chicken soup, first time I've ever actually seen the chicken chopped up and then put in the pot rather than just opening up the can. Cooking when it's 95 degrees out is absolutely terrible. Later on we watched High School Musical and an episode of Hannah Montana, in Spanish. That was kind of fun actually, I already knew the storyline which I think made it easier to understand. Ruth loves HSM, she sang along to all the songs, in English, which was really funny. We went to McDonalds last night, which is really expensive. A big mac costs 50 bolivares, which with the black market exchange rate is 6.25, but the government rate is 12.50 in dollars. rediculous. we just got fries and mcflurrys. delicious. i really liked last night though, i felt like part of the group, chipping in to buy all of the food rather than each ordering individually like we do at home usually, my spanish is getting better so i could be part of the conversation, it was good.
 im about to be late!