Langage School- Session 2

After my nice 3 week break in El Salvador at the orphanage, I returned on Sunday Aug 15th for my last 4 weeks of school, totaling 12 weeks all together. Oh, it's so much cooler here than El Salvador. Nearly always in the 70s. And there to greet me was "my" volcano. Although we're surrounded by volcanoes, the closest one, Volcano Agua, is my favorite. There's just something very reassuring about that volcano to me. It really reminds me of God. My heart is really drawn to huge magnificent mountains.

So I got settled in my new house, not the house I lived in for my first 8 weeks of school. I requested this new location for several reason: it has a good reputation and it had wireless internet access 24hr/day (when the electricity works) for $5 more per week. Little did I know just how important this would be with my Visa woes (per the last blog). Choosing this house has ended up being an excellent choice and a blessing. The food is good, the house is clean, my "parents" are bilingual and very smart and friendly, and my fellow student housemates are super. Most of them are students or are affiliated with Anderson University. And here's something a little different, my house only has student rooms in it on the 2nd floor, and only their young adult son lives on the first floor. There is no kitchen, no living room, just student rooms (4, with capacity to hold 6 people) and 2 hall bathrooms. We actually walk half a block away to the house where my "parents" live (and 2 other students) in order to have our meals at 7:15am, 1pm, and 7pm.

I got a new teacher too. Although I really liked my previous teacher, she didn't have a very good command of the English language, and as my studies became more difficult and complex, so did my questions. So I requested someone who could be able to really understand my questions in English and be able to explain the answers thoroughly in English. Teresa, my new teacher, fit the bill perfectly. Sometime I think she has wanted to strangle me, and likewise me to her, but all in all it's gone quite well with Teresa.

I live on the same street that I lived on before, just one block further, and sitting on a corner. The location is much more quiet, although the road directly in front of the house is heavily traveled. The small one-way street is quiet, although every time I see 2 cars parked hood to hood on the same side of street, it makes me wonder how this happens on a "one way" street!

It also seems that whomever is responsible for turning off the water to the entire city every night likes to do it earlier than the previous guy. The water now gets turned off every night (through-out all the city simultaneously) around 10:15pm instead of 11:30ish. I'm told it comes back on around 4:30am. Like my friends say, T.I. G. (This is Guatemala) and nothing needs to be logical or make sense. Doing so would really mess up their system.