i just love all of the kisses from the kids...when you get to school a lot of the kids give you a kiss on the cheek and when you leave the will run after you to give you a kiss on the cheek.. it is such a sweet thing! i can't even begin to imagine my ex students running after me to give me a kiss on the cheek! not only that.. it would kinda seem creepy!well not just kinda. but a lot creepy!
this past friday night we went out to this really swanky club called Ama.. Ama happens to be in the same shopping center as starbucks.. mmm..one of my housemates is dating a guy whose uncle owns it...so i piut on one of my favorite blue maxi dresses and heels and was ready to hit the town... when we got there everyone was wearing a variation of BLACK...so here comes this white blond girl marching in with a long bright blue dress... kinda stuck out like a sore thumb!! it was fun though... it is probably one of the most expensive clubs in Trujillo... yes.. i know people!!! LOL
lWe had to work all day on Saturday (yesterday) so needless to say i was exhausted... all i wanted to do last night was lay on the couch and watch a movie.. i am starting to get sick so going out two nights in a row was not in the cards for me! with that said... there are so many damn people in this house that there is no way to go to sleep early on a saturday night until they leave the house... in the true latin way.. no one goes pout on the town until at least midnight.. so that also meant i was not going to be getting any sleep until after midnight.. the downside of living with so many people.. NO PEACE and QUIET when you want it! yes, i am the old lady of the house!!
there is actually a guy moving in from the states who is older than me.. good! don't like being the oldest! HHA..
oh this is funny.. you know how we don't ever take a taxi to el porvenir without less than six people? well, yesterday we were in a taxi heading home from work when the cabbie pulled over and told the two girls riding in the back of the station wagon to get out... apparently it is illegal to have pople in the far back and there were cops ahead of us checking taxis... so the poor girls had to get out and walk in a not so safe, clean part of el porvenir.. we are all there OMG.. where are they going to have to walk to? so they get out.. we drive past the cops and literally stop 100 meters in front of the police.. we wait and the girls walk up to the car and get right back into the back of the car.. i didn't understand because of course the cops could see us.... they had to walk down a road next to the cemetery where there is so much trash it could fill a landfill (slight sarcasm..only slight).. when they got in the car they were like.. oh we were just counting the number of dead animals on the side of the road! soooo GROSS.... sad.. how parts of trujillo can be so nice and then there is el porvenir where people are too afraid to actually go in and clean the area up...i know what you are thinking right now.. if people from trujillo re afraid t o go into el porvenir then why do i feel safe? the answer to that is.. i don't know! we exert a lot of caution.. never carry money and no one at the SKIP location has a computer there... the ladrons (robbers) know that there is nothing of use for them there or from us.. we have NO money on us except for the money to get to and from the school..
it also makes me wonder if people are so afraid to enter into el porvenir to provide services and maintenance then what happens to the kids growing up there.. they have no opportunities to better themselves.. hopefully what we do at SKIP is provide them with a sense of optimism and ambition that they might not have had otherwise.. i hope.........
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