Catching Up!

I'm behind in posting! With classes starting, talking with my familia and playing games with my tica sister every night, its hard to find the time. I've had trouble loading pictures to the post as well so I'll try again.

My group from Sam Houston arrived on Thursday and the girl that stays in the house behind me is Danica from Angleton.  She is a beginning speaker and is overwhelmed as she has never been so far away.  Today she was excited she finally was able to respond to her madre tica and ask a question.
It's pretty funny that I'm actually translating for them - me!

These are students from Baylor and Ashland University in Ohio.  They have been great friends and really good kids. I've enjoyed being with them all! This is the bus stop in Santa Ana where we catch the shuttle to the school. 

This is a look out the bus window on the way back to town from the school.  The roads are narrow, lots of pedestrians and motorcycles and the drivers drive muy rapido. This is a typical street where the homes are right behind the gates and walls you see here. You'd be surprised how well cared for and pleasant it is inside the gate - courtyards and paths with plants and flowers in many of them.

On Wednesday, I was the only participant in the yoga class held after regular activities were over. I worked an hour with a legit yoga instructor and was dripping sweat at the end. She had another class to hurry to so I waited an hour for the shuttle bus to come back up the mountain to pick me up.  This is the view I had as dusk and then dark joined me until the bus got there.  Alone and peaceful but a little scary too. 

The first 3 days this week I was in a small class with these 2 guys and me with Profesora Anna.  She is muy muy sweet, patient and speaks very slowly for us. I felt close to her, she kisses me hello each morning and smiles all the time.  Now that my profesora from SHSU is here, I'm no longer in her class and I'm sad but still can see her during breaks and lunch.  Dr. Andrist is fine but much more uptight and OCD about things.  She was my Span. culture profesora last spring and swamped us with hours of work. Hopefully, she'll relax as the days roll on.

This was the activity today during break. These are a few of the Converse profesoras that are so much fun. The one who fell down is Gata, our resident school madre.  She looks after the students needs outside of school, arranges with the host families, helps arrange all the excursion trips, etc.  She is loves much and is loved muchisimo!