Week Four & Five?

It is still so crazy for me to think about the fact that i´m in Argentina. Sometimes i start talking with someone in english and forget that they won´t understand me :). However i have to say, my spanish has improved quite a lot. And yes, if you were wondering, there is probably a lot of pride behind that sentence (pray for me!). But really, I love learning the language and opening up that part of my mind. It´s so interesting getting to delve into the different words and try to put them all together. And of course i´ve thought of new cheesy jokes to make things easier to remember. For example... Cheap and Expensive are Bariato (ok i just learned this today and i usually need a lot of repetition.. so all of you real spanish speakers out there dont need to comment on this correcting my mistakes :P ) and Caro. Since i didn´t want to confuse them and call cheap, expensive or vice versa i made a phrase for both. Carros estan Caro. Bariato es Barbaro (Cars are Expensive. Cheap is Awesome. Anyways, it doesn´t make much sense in either language but it helps me not confuse the two.

My past few weeks have been Barbaro! (yeah, i´m not translating that.. you guys need to remember the meaning.. lets get your heads working as you read my blogs.) By the way one of my friends here said something to me that made me think yesterday and i´ve quite agreed with her statement. You see, we have these ´creative journals´or ´Cuaderno Creativo´each week and we have five questions we need to answer to let our disciplers know how we´re doing and whats going on for us in the week. Most people summarize what happened and it works out very well for them. But for me, my discipler each week kept telling me to ´go deeper´with whats going on in my heart and stuff. And i was like... the Lord is going deep in my heart, i just have trouble summarizing it all into this tiny little book... and so (entonces) (oh yeah you´d better get used to my random spanish words in spanish... they´re only translations.. not anything that you need to look up in the online spanish-english dictionary) i decided to start writing in my joural as if it really were a journal, not just summaries in the corner of the page to leave space for all the decorations and magazine clippings. By the way, the decorations and things are supposed to represent you, so people always get really intense with them. But since i never wanted to waste space with them i decided that my journal just wouldn´t represent me. But what my friends comment was, that my journal was a really good representation of me.. and i didn´t understand at first. But you see its a great representation for me because i´m always trying to say so much, going off on random bunny trails and getting side tracked with every other sentence. (which of course i do in my blog as well.. we are all very acquainted with my ranbling and bunny trails.) Anyways.. yeah, that really wasn´t as funny as i was hoping it would be. oh well.

Oh and the food here has improved slightly! At least they´ve served a bit more veggies lately and i´ve been really quite happy about that. However they´ve also had the attack of the salt container as well. I swear i´ve seriously contemplated rinsing my salad of numerous times and not caring about the lack of dressing... it would probably still have salt residue after giving it a ´thurough´rinising. (i just realized how i completely dont know how to spell ´thorough´or is it ´thurough´or neither? i have no idea!)

This is really random but someonthing i´ve become more acquainted with as i become closer to the people in my school (because the closer you get the more you feel you can really say whats on your mind..) is that americans are a good bit more intense than people here. At least i am.. i have heard the word ´tranquil´so many times this past weeks. (its like saying to someone to calm down). but not just with random hyper spouts or like being upset about something.. its just in my normal day, talking with people or soemthing... all of a sudden people are telling me to calm down.

Oh and even though i have failed to take pictures for you i am now able to take them. A friend of mine has the same camera and i can borrow her battery. So hopefully two weeks from now (as next weekend i dont think i´ll be able to make it to town) i´ll have some pictures to post for you. :D exciting eh?

Even more exciting is the package my mom is sending me! i can´t wait. there´s almond butter in it! and dried mango! and real chocolate! and so much more! how do i always come back to food... i swear i need to ask Jesus if food has become an idol in my life. So much of my day circulates around meal times and snack times.

Theres so much more to say and a billion e-mails to reply to but i fear (hah! i can´t believe i said that! ´i fear´) i have to leave before i miss the bus... like i did two weeks ago... Miss you guys so much! I hope this was interesting!