Day Four

Sunday, October 4th:

Today my mom and brother took me to the mall to get a cell phone and some notebooks. The cell phone system here is very confusing, because you buy a phone (in my case the most OLD SCHOOL Nokia in the whole world), and then you buy SIM cards with minutes on them, kind of like a go-phone in the US. But since the whole transaction was done in Spanish, I have NO idea how many minutes I have, only that I have ten dollars worth. How helpful. So we’ll see how long “ten dollars” lasts…

I also got some notebooks and pens because I conveniently realized on the plane when it came time to fill out customs forms that I have not a single pen in any of my luggage. Wonderful. But now I do so it’s no longer a problem. Oh, they also took me to an electronic store to look at these mobile internet things…they look like a flash drive but it basically is an antennae for your own personal internet. Well the thing alone was $110, and then it was like $50/month after that. I’ve lived a pretty extravagant life this past week partying and getting ice cream and seeing movies all for $20. I think I’ll stick with the slow school internet thank you.

I think that the food and water here is starting to get to me now because up until now I have felt fine, but as of noon today, my digestive system decided to rebel. So my friend Immodium and I have had a date and hopefully I feel better soon. But keep your fingers crossed everyone.

After the mall (and some GROSS cafeteria food), we ended up at the movies. Which was cool, except I felt totally awful and just wanted to go home and sleep. But that didn’t happen and we ended up seeing “The Proposal” in English, with Spanish subtitles. Weird right? But incredibly convenient for me so I didn’t complain.

Since then, we have just been hanging out at home and I have been playing with my new cell phone…and apparently my sister is coming back sometime tonight, which will be nice to meet her. And my first day of classes is tomorrow! So I’m pretty excited for that.

And finally a story: At the bar last night, my friend Andrew went to order us all more drinks. When he came back he looked confused and said that he didn’t get the drinks because he ordered them, but the guy said something about kissing and he was confused so he left. I asked him what he said to order and found out that he had asked the bartender for three “bebesos”. The word for drinks is “bebidas,” the word for kiss is “beso”. So much for us and our lack of proper vocabulary…