As you can tell from my post below. I do have internet in my room. I was doing all my internet activity on my roof next to about 15 ducks in the cold. When the internet was finally working in my room my host mom said (in Spanish) she was happy because she thought I was going to turn into a duck and start quacking soon. I became very close with the ducks during my few days on the roof. I experienced their highs (feeding time) and their lows (watching one of their own be murdered by my host mom). I miss the ducks... I don't miss their smell.
Well chico de internet came over yesterday with an antenna, a router and an ethernet cord (he was on time this time... after experiencing the "hora peruana" I was really excited to see him at my house). I was semi-worried that I would have to hang my computer out of multiple windows again, but that was not the case. Instead, I had chico de internet in my room for 2 hours trying to figure out how to get the ethernet cable to actually connect to the internet.
During this time... I am... chasing Bryanna around the house because she decided to play a little game of "Come se dice _____ en ingles?" with my stuff. LUCKILY, I was able to rope her in with my bag of chips in my room. She then started doodlin' all over my spanish homework and saying "bien senora?" in her cute 3 year old voice.
I started noticing chico de internet getting pretty aggravated with my computer... so finally he came over to me and told me he couldn't figure it out because my computer is in English. YES... 2 hours later... I realized the problem. I needed to switch my language settings to Spanish. About 5 minutes after I changed the settings... the GOOGLE welcome page on Firefox opened up.
Picture this scene.
Me screaming in English. Hugging Chico de Internet. Tackling little abuelita. Telling everyone in the house I loved them.
No more ducks. No more smell. No more roof.
Training is going well. I'm mentally and physically exhausted. I can only handle so much Spanish in one day. My first youth group starts next week (we have to do one during training so we can make our mistakes now rather than later at site & practice our Spanish). The session plan is already finished for it :) This weekend we have a Spanish class in Lima and a fiesta in Santa Eulalia during the night! Hope you enjoyed my story of Chico de Internet! Please check out the pictures I uploaded! Miss you all!
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." -Diane Ackerman
Special shout out and thanks for the packages/letters from: Claire, Abby, Mom & Dad! You guys have no idea how much it brightens my day.
-Brielle
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