I miss my blowdryer :-(

I hate my hair.  It is so gross down here because I'm sweaty all of the time and I can never blow dry it...ughh I sound so vain but it's cool...haha.  I just finished taking the best shower of my LIFE.  The water was freezing cold and felt amazing because I've been so warm all day long.  It's kind of gross though to see dirt in the water that is flowing off of your skin...kinda made me feel really disgusting today.

So thats my rant about Merida.  Everything besides my hair and feeling dirty 24/7 has been really great.  The people here all seem to be very friendly, the classes are interesting, and the food is good! 

This morning, our house-mom woke us up an hour early because she didn't know that we didnt have class at 8 today (it was at 9 instead because we didn't have a taxonomy quiz).  I didn't really even wake up though and I ended up getting up at 7:30, getting ready for school, and then having breakfast.  After breakfast, Allison and I took the bus by OURSELVES for the first time.  We were able to survive finding the school and everything, so it was a successful trip!

At school, we learned more vocabulary, include the parts of the body, some verbs (hacer, trabajar, etc.), and articles of clothing.  Then, we played a game where there were 5 chairs for 5 people in the class and then the remaining 6th person had to say a part of the body or an article of clothing and if you had it, you had to get up and move to a new seat; whoever was the last one standing had to ask the next question.

Then, we had culture class, where we went to a museum (Museo de la Cancion) but, because it wasn't free and the teacher had thought it was (because it used to be), we just read an article outside of the museum about it.

After class, we all went to a small restaurant for lunch, where I had "Arroz con pollo", which was really good.  Then, we took a historical tour of the city. 

After 10 hours of being away from my homestay, Allison and I returned and are now sitting here about to study for our 2nd quiz tomorrow on the taxonomy for the class Mammalia.  It should be a fairly interesting day tomorrow and, hopefully, there will be some down time so that I can maybe go over some of my Spanish vocabulary before my first exam next Wednesday!

Adios, muchachos!  Tu me manques!

(the last part is in French, just because I miss speaking it...alot...oo and that means "I miss you") (if you know French, don't translate that literally...it's a special relexive verb where you make the direct object the subject of the sentence :-) )

-Ashley

P.S.  The internet connection here won't let me upload pictures (it told me that it would take 9 hours to upload pictures on facebook...and that was after I waited for an hour haha)...I will try to figure out where I can do that faster and get back to you all on that :-D