Week 8 photos!

Day 50: One night we came home, and I put a glass in the sink only to see something wiggling and crawling all in our sink! I realized it was a gecko and if we let it stay in the apartment, it would likely die. So, I danced all over our counter and floor, eventually catching it by the tail. I let it loose on our balcony and it immediately ran straight down the side of our building!



Day 51: "Minuto" stands exist because it is very expensive to call from one phone service to another. So what you do is you go to a minuto stand and borrow the phone of that service (Tigo to Tigo, Comcel to Comcel, Movistar to Movistar) then when the call is over, they tell you how much it costs. It's a lot less than calling Tigo from your Comcel phone and so on. You can see the phones are chained to the desk/table so that no one can walk off with one.

Similarly, the vendors are bored and gossiping. You must hear a lot of personal info on these phones.



Day 52: The aftermath of a dinner party. Lauren made FABULOUS eggplant parmesean. However, it made me miss ricotta cheese a lot.

One thing we have in the states is constant access to rare and interesting cheeses and foods.



Day 53: Even here, we still need a lot of bathroom space!



Day 54: Fruity martinis! At a bar that was called the Jamaican, but everyone here pronounces "HAmakan". I still have problems not saying the "j" or "g" sounds.



Day 55: This was a class assignment I did with the kids, where they analyzed artifacts, then wrote what they thought each one was on the board.




Day 56: Carnivale is kind of a big deal here and it means that everyone - even straight laced people are dressing up in wigs, bright colors and sliced up t-shirts.