that went on but I'll try to hit the major things. We went to a
different place to teach last Friday. It didn't go quite so well. We
were talking to some people we found sitting down and apparently all
of them knew English perfectly well. We were just stumbling through
the first lesson in terrible Spanish. It got all the way to the end,
and then one of them asked if we spoke English. I don't know why they
didn't say anything sooner. Anyways that lesson didn't go so well
because then they proceeded to buy some prescription marijuana while
we were teaching them. We figured we should move on to some different
people when they started smoking it in front of us. My companion and i
figured we would head somewhere less crowded so we headed down the
streets. We found this guy sitting on a fence with his back to the
street that was way interested. We started teaching him and while we
are teaching a completely tinted out car slowly rolls up to us and
honks twice. They started to roll down the window but the guy on the
fence turned around and whistled at the car and they rolled it back up
and drove off. That was pretty scary though cause I had no idea what
was going to go down.
The next awesome thing was going on splits. We just went out
yesterday, and it was insane. They have a total culture difference
here. My companion was from Guatemala and spoke barely any English at
all. Anyways we took the metro downtown into the city. Then we just
started walking across the streets. I almost got hit like twenty
times. Then we got into a taxi. There was six of us in this little
tiny car with no seat belts, and the drivers don't care about
anything. I'm not even quite sure if there are lanes on the road.
Anyways though, you just pay them twenty five pesos and get out
whenever. Then we just started teaching. You don't knock on doors
here. You just yell "Saludos" or something and they'll come open it.
And everybody talks to you. Even if they don't want to, they'll talk
to you for like ten minutes. We talked to so many people that were way
interested. I wish I had time to write more but we taught a bunch
more people. Then when we were heading back I picked up a street
churro which tasted super good and was only like 30 pesos. We got in
another taxi again, and remember what I said about my last taxi being
scary. That was nothing. The second one was crazy. We had seven people
in this one which I guess is the max cause if you have any more the
police will get you. Which is surprising cause you can pretty much do
whatever else you want on the roads and the cops don't care. Anyways
though, I had my elbow like an inch out of the window cause I was
totally squished, and my companion immediately pulled it in. I'm
pretty sure we bumped a couple other cars on our way back. We were
driving in oncoming traffic for a bit. I was legitimately surprised we
didn't get in a major accident. That was a fun day though.
I don't really have time to talk about the rest so I'll just summarize
in a couple sentences. Our top bunk bed broke and fell onto the bottom
bunk. We had a member of the 70 come and speak to us. We balled up in
our mandals while it was pouring rain. My companion had to sleep on
the floor for a different reason then the bunk bed breaking. That's
some of the major parts of my week but it is way fun out here.
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