Where am I???

Playing Soccer in the street outside of SKIP

Oh wow, so yesterday, Tuesday, was the first day i have actually been scared. Zoe and I went to IndoAmericano school yesterday as normal to teach our English classes. WE left school at 12:30 and hopped  into a taxi.  I wasn't really paying any attention until i looked up and our cabbie was reversing super quickly. it was then that i realized that their was a man running after us and threw a rock at the cab. fortunately it didn't hit us.. but i was freaked. Apparently these drunk men had put rocks in the middle of the road to get the cars to stop.. i can only think they did this to rob the cars... fortunately our cab driver saw this and quickly put it into reverse and slammed the accelerator... i let out the most guttural (sp)  gasp come straight from my stomach...  there was a bus there too and it obviously had to stop and we saw the "drunk" men get on the bus for a second. i am guessing they robbed the guy that works the door.. the one that collects the money from everyone on the bus and stands in the door to hurry people on and off the bus. All i can say is thank God that our cab driver thought quickly enough to avoid a really bad situation.  It makes me sad for our kids that they have to see this kinda thing so often. I can't even imagine.
 
    On a lighter note..when we went up to SKIP yesterday afternoon i ound Liz holding a tiny skinny little kitten.. i hate cats but this one was pretty cute! she decided that kitty she named manzana (apple in spanish) needed some milk.. so we walked a block down and bought some condensed milk in a can and had the store owner open it for us! When we got back to SKIP Liz tells Dona Vikki (a woman who works there from El Porvenir) that she wants to keep the kitten at SKIP! Dona Vikki laughs and was like oh no the kids would kill it! Then liz decides she wants to keep it.. next thing you know.. this woman walks up.. pretty much grabs the cat out of liz's hands and stuffs it into a box and puts the box into a big bag. the look on liz's face cracked me up because she really did want that cat.. not sure what she would have done with it.. but oh well! i mean she stuffed the kitten in a box and then into a bag.. the animals are thought of so differently than in the states.. i don't think we would ever stuff a cat into a box!
      Ok.. so now the gross part of my day. Liz and I did Deportes with the kids. Deportes is basically PE class. At one point we took a break and got some water.. while on break we saw a dog come over and he was chewing on something rather long.. we thought it was a snake si i had to go check it out..i walked over there and was immediately  GROSSED out.. the dog was chewing on a super long hairy dog tail.. are you kidding me!!! this dog was eating another dog's dismembered tail... i had the most horrified look on my face when i caught the eyes of some men playing soccer and they just burst into laughter.. OMG!!! i guess dogs need to ea too. huh!
   so my day in a nutshell... a man throwing a rock at our taxi, tiny kitten getting stuffed into a box, and a dog eating a long furry dog's tail.  Doesnt get any more interesting than that!