Today was an exciting day because I received 4 letters today from my mom's side of the family! It was so great to read all of their encouraging words. I love all of the updates they give me. I really need to learn how to send mail here..do I use regular U.S. stamps? Hmm, not sure. I'll have to ask my host mom about this.
I've been really guapa lately... like actually. Not that fake guapa I am when I clean my room or sweep the patio or wake up remotely early, and get a "qué guapa!" (although that's always nice to here, even if its not necessarily true! Ha) I started my surveys and have 1/5 of them done now! Only 40 more to go! It's really nice because people in the Centro have been a HUGE help and always explain things a little better for me when I lack the wordage. But at the same time, I think the people I've interviewed think I'm pretty legit because for example, today our dentist was helping me out (who is clearly a respected person) and she was asking me for guidance and the community member sort of just looked at me like "oh wow, you must be important!". Let me assure you kind Madame, I'm not. Haha. I will however, enjoy this feeling while it lasts. I also accompanied our dentist to a charla it was originally supposed to be in the schools but the teachers apparently forgot to mention that today was a teacher in service day..oops. So, it was held at the Centro instead. Next time I'll definitely go again so that I can see how they interact with the children and how they present the information.
In other news, I want to start reading Harry Potter in Spanish. My host mom strongly suggests that I read in Spanish so that I start to learn to think in Spanish instead of English. Fat chance of that happening, but it was a really good suggestion so I'm gonna try to take it. However, if I plan on meeting my 200 book goal I have to read another book at the same time because it will literally take me the whole 2 years to read a book in Spanish considering I'll probably be looking up 20% or more of the words on each page. Sigh. But I'm excited to start that little adventure.
xox
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