Yo Speako Spanisho

Some days my spanish is great....and other days it apesta (sucks). I just learned this word today in our meeting. Which was totally pointless btw.

Because I have been talking about random stuff in my blogs lately, I have decided not to have important titles. And if I go off on tangents, sue me.

A few things I am addicted to currently:
**Iced tea
**Cheetos - they have REAL cheetos here. And every since I have discovered them I can't stop eating them. I went to the store the other day (bodagona - the big store) and bought a huge bag just for myself at my house when I am sick of eating rice!!! :) I figure if I am not eating that well anyway, might as well treat myself to some delicious cheetos. They are the puffs by the way - the ONLY kind to eat.
**This song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s8oBQZ1BeA
**Coffee
**Choco banano or choco fresas (frozen banana or 3 strawberries covered in chocolate). Our school sells them for 1Q or amount .12 cents.

I gave up washing my own clothes. I decided that I was brought up ---too lazy to wash my own clothes -kind of lazy. :) Here goes 50Q down the drain.

I am getting a new spanish teacher which is fantatic for me bc I think my current one apesta (do you remember what this means?). I feel like I am hardly learning, and I am suppose to be having class every day now. But this past week I only had class once, because he is sooooo important and couldn't spare two hours of his day. And beside that annoying part, our class gets interrupted every time, EVERY TIME! For about 20 minutes, at least. aughh so annoying.

I really like these songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbDnLqe_Wk (please ignore the weird video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcnNeGQHwDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNJvHYqKFY (stupid video -sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJz1YMAu_x0&feature=related


The other day I was in the kitchen with our cook and someone that was staying at the guest house with us, and we suddenly were out of power. So, come to find out our electric bill was never paid for and we could expect to wait a day at least until it was turned back on. I left to go to work and when I returned back we had power. At first I didn't think anything of it because at the time it seemed normal to have power, completely forgetting we had lost power that morning. As I walked towards the kitchen I kept seeing different wires coming from all directions. One of my roommates was in the kitchen and proceeded to tell me how we all of a sudden had power...so it turns out the bill still hadn't been paid, but rather we were stealing electricity from the neighbors! And the best part was, if you needed to use the microwave to heat up your dinner, you had to unplug the refrigerator!
I mean, why not steal from the neighbors I guess?? ha

Zach from Oregon left on Wednesday morning. I am now alone in this house!! Well, that is a lie. I have one roommate but I call him my dad. He is really creepy, stays in his room ALL the time, never hangs out, and once told me that if I have people over again he would tell my boss on me! WHAT!? You are 28 years old, live a little!!
One night I really made him mad, and so now he won't talk to me or even look at me. He was out of his room, standing in my doorway being creepy and trying to talk with me...so I decided that I would find out his reason for being here. I began really nice and not intruding into his life, until he got weird!!! I asked him why he wanted to come to Antigua and why for this amount of time? (Time out: You need some background about him: He is a guatemateco - Guatemalan, but lives in CA. He has been here for over a year, and not working. He stays in his room and works out, watches tv, and plays on his computer all day and night. He is supposedly here to learn about "his" culture and experience Guatemala. He is also supposedly leaving at the end of Sept, but he hasn't bought his plan ticket yet.....Time In)
He said that he didn't want to answer those questions and he was going to go back to his room and watch tennis. So I told him he was being waaaay creepy. He got really mad that I kept asking him those 2 questions, so he left. I told him I thought he was a spy and was acting weird bc he wouldn't answer two simple questions. So now, he avoids me!! haha
I think he is a spy! :)

I love street food...so so so much. And street food here is probably not what you are thinking. It is not a guy/girl in a van or some sort of vehicle - it is a legit setup with grills. Yummmmmy, yummy food! One of the foods I like to eat a lot is called a pan toastado which is a toastado with beans, guac, lettuce (of some time - not lettuce you are thinking about. It is different and I don't know how to explain it), and salsa. O.M.G.
One of my other favorites is a fried plantane (that is hot) stuffed with beans. Sounds gross, but tastes amazing!


I had a snow cone today ... they exist in Antigua. :) It was yummy...this would make more sense to you if you knew my obsession with snow cones and ice in general! Well this snow cone was made a little differently...first - like normal - it was packed with ice. Then chili powder was sprinkled on, then lime squeezed over it, then more ice, then flavoring, then chili powder, then topped with more lime juice and fresh pineapple. Weird at first, but pretty good.

Sometimes walking down the street while eating you get a little surprise by someone passing as they say to you, "buen provecho," which literally translate to bon appetit. How lovely is that?

longest blog ever!!!!