I took my spanish placement test and sucked it up pretty bad and got into basic spanish. But we're going all the way back to the begining- No joke the alphabet. Its just me and one other girl in the class. Our professor is really cool but I've heard he flirts alot with his students. I don't have photography classes on Friday. But am excited to start them on Monday! Tonight I have a meeting with the other 3 people in homestay. Which I'm pretty sure involves more pizza (yum). The other night I had pizza with my family and we had some very interesting conversations- one about marriage. My homestay dad told me to wait as along as possible to get married and advance my career and my mom told me no, to have babies young so my body stays normal. This conversation was made possible by lots and lots of motions and sound effects. And we talked about some other things. They served me argentinian wine. Everything that my mom feeds me she tells me "organica" shes a lawyer for nature as far as I can understand and she loves her job. My dad works for his family business and isn't at work on a regimented schedule which is good because he can usually help me.
My home stay parents are seriously the best parents I've ever witnessed. When Catalina gets grouchy or upset or anything they seriously drop everything and talk to her and play with her and are so patient and caring. They've never lost their patience I don't think. Its an "early childhood education" dream. My mom asked us to go to an exercise dance class with her. It was SOO much fun, very similar to Zumba but alot more booty shaking. After 45 minutes of non stop dancing we did 15 minutes of abs. I definatly feel it today.
Last night we went out for the first time. La plaza de armas is the place to be! There are tons of bars and discotecas. As soon as you get out of the taxi people run up at you and start trying to bring you to their bar. They like beg you and bribe you with free drinks and go crazy. They don't leave you alone until you go into somewhere. They usually say something like "I love you American girl, come with me". Its quite entertaining. We first went into what we thought was called "Mama Africa's" but after ordering our drinks and sitting down we realized it was Mushrooms. It was a really fun, chill bar but we looked like total tourists when we first went it. Its a group of like 10 of us and we were all standing around speaking English to eachother. Hopefully we can assimilate more as we learn the ways and how to not look like total "gringos". There were tons of people in all the bars from other countries- I met some from England and South Africa. After Mushrooms we went upstairs and found "Mama Africas" it was packed! We immediantly started dancing it was so much fun. But we had to be careful because alot of the men were very pushy and kept trying to do a whole lot more than just dance. It was so helpful to have guys in our group cause we could use them to escape most situations. After we left Mama Africas we went to another bar that I don't know the name of. Somehow we immediantly got put up on the bar to dance. It was alot of fun! There were SOOOO many people. The bar tenders kept pulling us down behind the bar and giving us shots. It was very interesting. We stayed here until about 3 am and got a cab home.
Today I woke up and ate breakfast at like 9 and then went back to sleep until 12. We were supposed to go to lunch with Gustavo's parents and a famous priest? But it got pushed back. While in the car I asked my mom if she liked getting manicures. She said yes and we went to get one right then. hah it was interesting. They took alot of time with my cuticles and I'm pretty sure I wont have anymore for about a year. It was a little painful. But they also give a really long, nice hand massage so it was worth it. All for 15 soles. Which is about 5 us dollars. Then we went to a chicken restaurant to meet with Gustavo's padres and the priest. It was a nice lunch but I couldn't really get in on the converstaion. Now I'm just hanging out in my room about to go to this meeting!
Here are some pictures from the last couple days:
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