Why my internet is so slow...

Random thoughts and....
* It is hard to imagine a second grade class that is so out of control but that is what I have. It seems to me many days that things would just go on wihtout me as they hardly listen anyways. I know it has to do with the language but it is so frusterating and hard when everyday you try so hard and get so little.
* I love the lighting. It streaks across the sky, lighting up the clouds that hang low over the mountains that frame this city.
* Food poisining that takes out almost a whole city. Thank goddness that we had a long weekend or there would not have been anyone there to teach. It was the sickest that I have been in a very long time. I hate throwing up and just feeling like crap and that was how it went. It was a combo of the all bad sicknesses wrapped up in one. It was very intense.
* I was named queen of the town next to Armenia. I even got intervied. It was pretty funny because out of the whole group I was the only one that did not speak Spanish that well and I was the one they intervied. Queen Annie. Sounds pretty good.
* Wine making. Really it just involves alot of drinking and picking grapes. I am really good at the drinking part! The wine should be ready for Turkey day.
* My package form hell. So I mailed one small package down to Colombia about four months ago. Everyone else that mailed stuff down got there things but not me. For some reason I have to pay two hundred ontop of the money that I already paid. It has been a very silly process but also very frusterating. I miss my photos and the things that remind me of home. Thanks to my mom I should get the package very soon!! I am very excited.

I am sorry for the bullet list again. I felt guilty about not writting and just wanted to get some thoughts down. It seems very hard for me to articulate the experiences that I am having here and really relate my time here.

Random things/thoughts

• Tried to burn the apt down today. Had the gas stove and elective burner all running at the same time and could not get them off. It probably took me over an hour to figure it all out. You also have to light the stove with a match every time. This should be fun.
• Saw my classroom and school. My room is small and ghetto but everyone at the school seems great. There are cows that walk around everywhere.
• Watching the first thunderstorm roll across the hills. No rain yet, but lots of thunder.
• Everything in my apt. are mini. The Refrigerator and couctches. Kind of funny when you are 5’10.
• School bus picks me up right in front of the apt. Like we are kids again, but this time my legs don’t fit behind the seat.
• Everyone here has been so nice. Everywhere you turn, people say hi. Especially my doorman who carries my groceries up for me, and greets and helps me lug all my stuff upstairs. Oh, my face wash exploded all over my bag, so in my mini laundry room I tried to wash out the stuff that got ruined.
• I realized today that I have not bitten my nails since I got here. I think that is almost a full week! How amazing is that.
• Went downtown today by bus. It was fun, I saw so much and it reminded my of down town Los Angeles. We took the bus for about 50 cents. I saw everything from baby chickadees that had been died different colors, to Catholics at church, to getting your shoes fixed for less then two dollars.
• The doorman called and told me today, that I am not aloud to dry my clothes on the porch. When I asked why, he said because it was the near the entrance. I think that someone in the building complained because all I had was one shirt up to try.
• I asked my boss about dress code and what teacher were aloud to wear, she proceeded to take of her jacked, under witch she had a tight little red number. She then shimmied to for me. She then explained that she will wear a jacked over her shirt but then she said that if it get to hot, she takes it off and does not care.
• Figured out why the refrigerator does not work, the door does not shut.
• Soccer in Colombia is amazing. I learned more swear words then I thought possible and was amazed by the spirit for even a small local team.