Hi again,
So... what to tell today. Well, as the title of this post might tell you, I am so special, if you haven´t already known. After school yesterday, I walked back to my house. On the way there´s a supermarket called MásXMenos (más por menos). I went to buy some groceries since I don´t want to keep ordering take-out to the school as the meals included in my package are breakfast and dinner. I bought groceries, yay! So just as I walk in the house I realized I forgot to buy bread along with my other sandwich making components. Way to go, me. Anyways, it turned out to be fine because in the mall we went to yesterday to watch the movie there was another MásXMenos so I bought a loaf of bread.
Now that the above story was so intriguing, I will delightfully (and definitely shamefully) admit that the movie we saw yesterday was New Moon (or Nueva Luna... not Luna Nueva for some reason but that´s ok). The other two options were Tim Burton´s ¨9¨and ¨Planet 51¨but neither was showing in English, and all three of us who went are sad to admit we´re kind of snobs about movies that are supposed to be in English haha! Although, it could have been cool to see a children´s movie in Spanish as I would have been likely to understand it still. I will admit that Nueva Luna exceeded my expectations but that doesn´t say too much because my expectations were at 0.3% haha (and I never saw the first Twilight movie). Ima, Gidz, and Lark: I will say that the vampire and wolf-man looked a lot like the vampire and wolf-boy from the Conan O´Brian show we saw!
It was a fun experience to hang out with Michelle (the assistant at the school, from Germany) and Jaqueline (another student, from Switzerland). Michelle is very quickly becoming my closest friend here, it´s pretty awesome, especially since there are many students here who are in their 40s and 50s and it´s a little hard for me to relate to them, and she´s in her mid-late twenties. They are really nice, regardless, but still, it´s harder to relate...
Oooo! Another special moment, are you ready? So I read in the Costa Rica version of Lonely Planet (the guidebook) that it´s typical to expect there to not be much hot water in the shower if any, especially in the smaller cities and very rural areas. Santo Domingo is very much a small city. It reminds me a lot of a large version of an Israeli ¨Kibbutz¨. Anyways, so when I couldn´t get any hot, or warm for that matter, water in the shower, I just thought to myself ¨well, that´s fine, Lonely Planet warned me ahead of time so I´ll just adjust...¨
Yea...
I talked to Eva and Michelle today and they definitely mentioned a knob on the shower head that I had been missing that I could use for hot water... Once again, way to go me haha! I´ve been too embarassed to ask my host mom about it because I didn´t want it to be awkward if there actually wasn´t any hot water... Oops.
Well, after about 4-5 cold showers I think I´m going to try my luck again, this time with maybe a warmer shower? Wish me suerte!
Con amor,
Meirav (who is a little retarded sometimes.......)
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