Como se dice... surfing?

Hola Amigos!
Well well well, I missed yesterday so I´ll give it to you know:
Monday. We started Spanish lessons with Rosario (she´s awesome, sooo nice) and it was kind of hard because in my mind, as long as it´s not English it must be Spanish, so I kept speaking French! And I didn´t even realize I was doing it, I was just thinking ´wow Spanish is easy, I know every word!´... yeah right! Anyways, we did Spanish and then had lunch... rice with lentils, sauce, bacon, and potatoes... kind of weird but I ate it. I am not picky here at all, I´ve been surprising myself! I´ll try anything... hopefully I can keep that when I go back home! Anyways, after lunch we were supposed to have a session with Kent but he was out for a couple of hours so we decided to go SURFING! It was insane! Some of the girls promised to go weekly, so Bruno (the instructor) gave us special rates... usually it´s $20 American, but he charged us s.30, which works out to about $12. Anyways, we got our wetsuits on, did some stretches with our instructor Carlos, grabbed a couple of boards and got in the water. First of all, the water was not blue... more of a green brown, so it was grossssss. And I´d say as a group we swallowed enough to fill a bathtub haha. Anyways, some of the girls (Jess and Celine) caught on really fast and did awesome. As for myself, things were a little difficult. First of all, you have to be constantly paddling, which is like ridding a bike with your hands underwater. NOT EASY! I got tired so fast! So anyways, I paddled out to where Carlos wanted us to be and waited for my wave... it came, and Carlos told me to paddle... but I didn´t know that that was when I was supposed to try to stand on the board! So I paddled and paddled as fast as I could and the wave carried me faster than you could imagine and I just kept paddling with my eyes closed (pretty sure I knocked someone over... I had my eyes closed but I felt my hand hit and knock over a board! ahh!) until I felt myself hit the rocks on shore! Then I was bummed, because I wanted to be back in the water! So I tried and tried to get back in but as soon as I would get about 4 feet in, a huge wave would come up and throw me into the rocks... I´m surprised I can walk today haha. Anyways, eventually Carlos came to shore and helped me back out, but I still had a rough time for the rest of it. As for Kelsey, she was snuck into a private spa by Bruno... but that´s another story.

Anyways, surfing was haarrrrrdddd but I don´t regret it at all! It was still fun! But today I am soooore. After than we had our session with Kent and then we moved the couch into the dinning room and watched Atonement on the computer... it was really cute haha!

We had our second day of Spanish today, and it was a lot better. I feel like I´m kind of catching on, and although it´s four hour sessions, they go by really fast. I find it pretty easy to understand, it´s just thinking of the appropriate words that takes time. But it´s only the second day, so I´m confidant that I can get it. After lessons we had a session about our placements with Anna Maria, and then we booked our flights to Cusco (where we will be volunteering). After that some girls had to go to the flight offices, and some needed scribblers for Spanish, so we headed out into Miraflores and did a little window shopping. Then we went out for waffles! They were so delicious and the place we went was adorable, the lights were tea kettles hanging from the ceiling. Anyways, we´re back now and everyone is just studying for Spanish! It´s nice having a lot of girls in the house, we always seem to be hanging out together but haven´t gotten sick of each other yet! (not that we will right?!)

Cioa chickas!