May 31st

Hellooo!

It rained last night and today for the first time since we've been here. Apparently, it's the beginning of the rainy season which runs from June to July. I{m not sure how I feel about this, but what can you do?

Today in class we learned how to use the past, present coninuous, and future tense. This is very exciting because now we'll be able to make sentences that are more advanced than the first grade level. Steve and I have decided that we'll give Kareem one week, and then we will speak only in Spanish starting next Friday.

Dinner was an adventure today. We bought what appeared to be a chicken sausage. Unfortunately, things are not always what they seem. We did our best to cook it and then we ate it. I'm still not sure what it was, but it definately wasn't a sausage. We might go vegan from here on out.

Tomorrow we're catching a bus to the Santiago airport at 5:20am to pick up our traveling companion. This means that we're supposed to get up at 4am (AM!!) and then taking a taxi to the terminal. This is not a problem for Steve because he is a Lark (for all you med school or psych folks out there) and he is asleep already and has been for the past hour (Darned larks. He wakes up singing every morining too. I'm serious). I should be asleep too, except I'm an Owl and I can't sleep this early.

Nevermind. Steve is awake now because the upstairs neighbors have decided that now is a good time to start drilling things. Maybe they're owls too.

I'm sure you've heard this all before and you probably won't believe me, but pictures should be up soon now that Kareem is bringing us a cable. Really, truly this time!

Anyway that's today. More tomorrow.

Good night!

Janet and Steve