well it was a slow weekend. most days here follow the following schedule: wake up around 9 for breakfast (ie pancakes, juevos a caballos, beans and rice, ham, plain eggs cooked omelette-shell style, etc, and juice and coffee), shower, have class from 10 - 12, lunch a little after 12 (beans and rice always + usually something from the breakfast list), then have the afternoon free until dinner at 6 (ie soups of local veggies with rice, chicken, rice and beans, tortillas, homemade hummus, fried plantains), and then free for the night. a lot of the time im just relaxing around the house or reading outside. the way it is here, its not so much choosing what to do, its choosing where to sit around for a few hours until you have a meal or something. ive been reading for a lot of that, but have spent a couple afternoons with my homestay family from my last trip here. at night i haven´t been doing anything at all. the other night i actually made card houses while the family watched the dancing show i previously described. the house is far enough away from the central area here that you can´t hear or see if anything is going on. it gets dark before six but nothing happens there at night until around 8, at which point we´ve already been sitting around for a few hours and i haven´t found myself in a mood to go out exploring yet. so that is my tranquilo life in mastatal in a nutshell. not exactly a wild adventure, but i have plenty of time for that to come. news on the carved gecko front: possibly complete. it is fairly crude. it is obvious i am not an expert carver. but you can tell its a gecko. and i only cut myself once. so all in all id say it was a victorious venture. next time i write i hope to have something more captivating to share. until then, pura vida.
gus
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it sounds like you are having plenty of time to learn your spanish. don't worry, it was a slow weekend here also. huskies lost 56-0 to usc, seahawks got smooshed. tomw is election day. Hopefully, it will be an election to celebrate.
Many years ago my friend Judy brought me a big chunk of soapstone for my birthday. I began carving and by the time I was done I was bathed in soapstone dust from head to toe and all I had left in my hand was a crumbling speck of white powder. People asked me what it was and I told them it was a a conceptual piece about the cycle of life. A number of years after that, I gave all my stone carving tools to a stunning woman artist in Argentina whose name I didn't even know. So I'm very impressed that you were able to carve a recognizable gecko. Next thing, you'll be selling car insurance.
It sounds like you're relaxing a lot. Muy bien. Espero que aprendas rápidamente como escribir en espanol. Asi podemos comunicar en dos idiomas.
Keep up the communications. I'm really enjoying them. any more interesting bugs?
gene
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