hello again
well i´ve resurfaced after a week of doing nothing but homework. that sucked but it was midterms and there´s no use getting upset about it now.
sorry for not writing. i don´t think it´s necessary to apologize but i do the same thing to myself in my journal when i haven´t written in a while. anyway i´m completely behind on email and trying to keep in touch with people.
last sunday i got really friend-sick. i read some great emails and i miss people a lot!!! so know that i miss you and i love you.
i did have 4 days of somewhat of a break last week because it was easter. easter day is really not the big deal here-it´s Good Friday, when they make the traditional Fanesca. Fanesca is something like a stew with every ingredient you can imagine. i think there´s around 20. i quite enjoyed it. i was afraid to enjoy it though because i got "amebas" last week and wasn´t supposed to eat (lots of) certain things. but my mom allowed it because i was feeling better.
i´m finally feeling like i know my way around. this is a good feeling.
frustrations with spanish come and go. i was talking to a friend some time ago in ohio about communication. i said miscommunication in english is so frustrating, imagine in another language! and she said, well i think it´s just fun in another language. and turns out she´s right for the most part. for instance. the words "your" and "his" in spanish are off by one letter. therefore if you are in a noisy bar, and you tell your brother that you like the singer´s voice (his voice, if you will), and he gives you a very strange look, you know that he understood "i like your voice." this of course is not what i said, and we cleared that up right away.
however, learning another language is frustrating as well. for instance. at lunch today my sister told a story of something her professor did. by some miracle i understood everything she said, and then she delivered the punch line and everyone laughed and i just...didn´t get it. that´s annoying.
so finally after years, well 2 really, of trying to relate to internationals, i actually do relate to my friends in the states with english as a second language.
tomorrow we leave for a trip to the coast. one week. i´m excited for several reasons-the coast is a lot different and i´m excited to learn the regional variations. i´m excited to not be doing schoolwork because i´m sick of it. and i´m excited for the ocean!!!!! i miss the sea. i´m not excited to leave my family and i´m going to miss them.
one more thing of interest-we did a volunteer project this week and i loved it. i feel like i would rather be volunteering because i would learn more about the language and culture than in school. this is a negative attitude about school, i´m sorry to give that impression, it´s not all bad. anyway volunteering-we are painting a room at a school for girls. so of course, i´m painting greece, the beautiful island of anafi, on a wall in ecuador. i´ll take pictures.
that is all. i love you.
posted by leah v @ 3:11 PM
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