June 2 The day before the big trip!

(Sitting on our Island in Bocas del Toro)

I just finished packing for my trip! We are going to the country Panama in the morning to the Islands of Bocas del Toro. Our hostel is on an island off the coast and the pictures we have seen from others at the school made me even more excited! I love the life here, school in the week and travel on the weekends, kinda like Europeans do! Today was a slow day because of the anticipation for the weekend. We got everything planned and done and the group set. I decided not to do the volunteer work because I cannot get money back for the classes I wouldn’t be taking so Spanish it is for me. It’s amazing how much the school has become home and a family for me. You would have to hide one the breaks if you didn’t want to talk to someone J I have made friends with the front desk ladies and the security guard its great I get greeted by name every time I walk in and they are even more helpful with me and play jokes on me all the time. They always tease me when I check for mail and there is none, but I know it is coming. I was craving chipotle so bad today so I got a burrito at school, it was not close in taste, but it filled the craving. Today in class we finally got to the point where we will put sentences together so I will soon be speaking in complete thoughts not only vocab. Part of our practice was to write a letter to our best friend in Spanish, the teacher had to read over it and correct it, she actually understood what I said so I must be getting close to right. Don’t worry Sarah it’s coming in the mail soon, revised of course. I really miss people at night, my family goes to bed around nine and there is no way to communicate with others after that. Tonight I practiced my Spanish with the family through music, we each played our favorite songs and tried to explain them to each other, it was good because my hermanatica finally opened up to me. After whatever we do I usually sit at the table and talk to my mamatica until I see she is ready to sleep then off to my room to write my blog and read! It has given me lots of time to think, and I am trying to decide where to go on my study abroad, Global learning term, so if you have any ideas let me know. While I write this I hear the kissing noses that the geckos make here, they are the same ones from Honduras. I think I am ready for a semester in LA, I take the bus, get off at the right stop, use a taxi when necessary, and inhale bus smoke on every corner! I am ready to get out of the city and onto our privatish island for the weekend! Pictures to come! Buenas noches mis amigos!