Being Here

Today is just another day sitting in class...tomorrow we are leaving for Cuenca...which should be fun. I guess it's cool to be here, but I feel like I'm missing so much at home. For example, Sami is pregnant again, and I will miss the entirety of the pregnancy and will olny maybe be back in time for the birth. I got a text yesterday that said "Oh my god...I was reading your blog and it's so crazy, it's like you live in a different world!" And it's true...I do live in a different world. For example, my mom doesn't refrigerate anything. Like anything at all. Cooked meat, eggs, fruit, veggies, nothing. Also, we have white rice at EVERY meal. Just plain white rice. Chocolate here is really expensive. I bought a bar (standard Hershey's) for cookies for 1.15. For some perspective, you could buy a loaf of bread for like half that, and my whole visit to the ER was only $30.

I have started to track my spending because I feel like for as cheap as everything is here, I have spent a lot of money. So now I write down everything that I spend, including bus fare.

I have started upolading pictures to Kodak.com, but it takes a LONG time to get any pictures up (like 3 hours for 40 pictures). But hopefully soon I can figure out how to get them all up, and you all will be able to see the pictures that I've taken.