This week on one hand seemed to go by so slow but when I look at it now, it went by at a pretty decent pace. On Monday we started our new classes for the semester and also had our weekly meeting. We talked about how next week (well, now this week) we are going to do more visa application things so it will get pretty hectic around here is my guess...and lots of dinero to pay :( Anyways, on Monday morning our education class was pushed back a half hour because we arrived late on Sunday night. We were going to go over our syllabus and everything online in our class but the wifi was not working anywhere in the school so we went to a cafe called Coffeetree about two blocks away and had coffee and breakfast (or at least I did). Mmmm...they have awesome moccachinos and omelet sandwiches. Anyways, we went over our syllabus using the wifi there and then talked about our class in the afternoon as well, so we pretty much got done with two classes in a two hour period which I was totally okay with. Then when we came back we had Spanish and after that, another education class. I had only a half hour of class before we were done because we had started going over it in the morning.
Tuesdays I only have a 10:30am class and then we also had our first cooking class! I'm not sure what the teacher's name is because she hardly talks at all except to tell us what she is adding and telling us what to cut. If all the classes will be the same as this last one was, I'm not sure if I will really learn anything because she made everything herself and we just cut things into pieces and watched her add ingredients according to sight. Either way, it was really good when we got to eat it later. I stayed at school for a few hours with people because that night the other two Ambrose girls and I were having dinner with our President Sr. Joan at an Italian place nearby called La Vina...it's really good! Sr. Joan paid for our meal and, because she had so many extra 5's with her, gave us each $25 dollars for us to do whatever we wanted!
Wednesday I just had classes like normal and I also met a few girls from the SAU nursing program who are here for two weeks. For lunch, a few of my friends and I went out for lunch at a Columbian cafe that we have never tried before. Wednesday might become our new lunch day with everyone but it's not for sure yet. Anyways, after my last class at 3, we all went to a girl's house to watch a movie. It was called Los Ojos de Julia (The Eyes of Julia), which is a horror movie. It was really funny because all of the girls who went except for me were actually scared during the movie and some even screamed a few times, but me and my brother just laughed at the 'scariest' parts...and at the screamers haha. I had warned them that I would laugh during the movie but they didn't believe me but they felt better that they could squeeze my hand when they thought it was getting scary and I wouldn't mind. Oh, that is also when I had this really awesome empenada for dinner. It had carne (meat), queso (cheese), and salsa and it was so good I could have had more than one just because it tasted good, not because I was hungry. Thursday morning we went to the smaller CEDEI school to figure out schedules for placement and who we would be placed with and such. We were only in the classroom for an hour but I could tell there was a huge difference between an American classroom and an Ecuadorian classroom. The teacher I am paired with and is really nice, last year she was a roommate of one of our coordinators at my CEDEI. Anyways, she's really awesome and she teaches English while I am there on Thursdays so it won't be a communication problem with the students because she has a rule that they can only speak English in the class. I am also deciding if I will go in on Tuesdays to participate in a theatre class in the early morning. Since Thursdays I don't have any class, I figured out how and when to get off the public bus so I can walk home for lunch. Then a friend came over that night and we watched Moulin Rouge on my computer and it was really fun because I haven't seen it for so long. Friday I don't have education classes so I just went in for Spanish class and later on for dance class, after which we went to a restaurant to eat and then to my house to hang out. Most people in the group still hadn't seen my new house so I gave them a tour and we spent most of the night listening to music, talking, and dancing-yes dancing-on the roof. 
Saturday we had a ceramics class at 9 am and I was really excited to go because I haven't done pottery since high school and I loved it. So I ran to CEDEI before meeting up with everyone and taking a taxi to the pottery place. We all got to make one pot-or two if the first one was bad-and by that time our hour was up. Then I ran back home and hung out for most of the day. We went to my grandparent's house for lunch because my mom wasn't home. I think that it was the one-year anniversary of someone's death in the family and I think someone else just recently died as well so she was at the cemetery and funeral home or something. Anyways, I did a bunch of homework and took a nap before going to another friend's house to hang out before they went out. I didn't feel like going out so I was just at the house talking with everyone for a few hours before they left and then I took a taxi home. When I came home, everyone was in their rooms so I just said hi to my mom and told her I was home, then came to my room and did a little reading for homework before going to bed.
Yesterday I woke up mid-morning and started working on homework. I got most of it done before we had lunch outside like a picnic in our yard. Then we went to my grandparent's house in the afternoon like we always do on Sundays and stayed there for a few hours with the extended family. Then I came home and did some homework before eating some dinner and going to bed.Today, I had classes and a meeting but I don't think anything else is going on so I guess it's just working on homework tonight! There is still no internet at home so I either wait until I am at school to check email or I can always go up the street and pay less than a dollar for an hour on a computer with internet.
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