We are staying with a lady named Buby. She is an archeologist in the town on Colonia. The first day in a new town is very difficult. It is disorienting. The bus ride took two hourse and was great. Mainly because I fell asleep the whole time. Marta, the owner of the school brought us all the way here to meet Buby and then showed us the school. Our teacher is named Christina. She was just hired yesterday by Marta, and she does not speak any English. I had the deer in the headlights look at our last classes, can´t wait till this week with no English at all. Buby speaks English, and she translates to Spanish, she is really good at making us learn how to say what she says back to her.
Her house is right downtown in Colonia. She arranged a trip to the Presidents Forest today with a cab driver. We leave at 1.30. Wow this keyboard is wierd.
Yesterday evening we walked around a bit. We really felt like tourists here. It is basically a tourist town. Mainly people crossing the river from Argentina. Argentinia is a very hard word to pronounce. That might be my next goal. I have uruguay down, and <i can count to 20! Those were my two lofty goals before I left Fairbanks.
Colonia is much smaller, and alot hotter. It lookes very charming with cobblestone streets that have wonderful trees lining the roads.
The favorite words are perfecto, bien and Ta. Perfecto is for everthing that is perfect, bien is good and ta means okay. You can pretty much make a full sentence with those three words.
Well, adios until later.
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