Two Months - Family Life And Sport

Well it's happened. I've hit the two month mark. It's been crazy, scary, confusing and great!
I feel like after living here for two months now, I know a bit about how things happen around here.
Our days begin by getting breakfast by ourselves (bit much to get Ruth to pour our porridge for us) and then we head out to school. Really miss hills and bends in roads because it's all so flat and straight in Lautaro. We walk 15 blocks to school which on average takes about half an hour, although there are the times where Amina is late and we have to speed walk. That and we're getting lazier. It's really bad. We just think that no one will mind if we're late. It's a bad habit that we need to stop ourselves from falling into.
We have a day of four classes, each an hour and a half long. We go over pronunciation, ask the kids questions then make sure that they all actually do their work.
After work we walk home again and chill/lesson plan/learn Spanish. The following are some random things I've noted down since being here and have been waiting to post. Some date back to when it was still rather chilly here.

• When Sergio tells a joke sometimes Ruth will laugh but sometimes she looks really unimpressed
• Sergio uses his hands and whatever objects are near by to explain things
• Ruth constantly offers us bread and checks to see if we're warm enough
• When we tried to do our laundry for the first time Ruth showed Amina how to use the machine. Amine then tried three times to just pour all our washing in. Ruth stopped her every time and got her to put them in one by one while me and Lili just stood there laughing
• Ruth is like a super mum. I checked our clothes on the line outside and they were still damp so I left them. Half an hour later they were inside over the fire but we hadn't seen Ruth go outside.
• Ruth gets up early to make our lunches but the first day we forgot forks and had to eat pasta and jelly with our fingers!
• The balcony has been opened up now that it's getting warmer but no one really sits out there
• We bought fruit for the first time and didn't know what one of them was (if anyone knows what a 'pepino' is in English please comment)
• Even in summer you can smell wood smoke - it is the predominant smell in Lautaro
• The TV shows are hilarious; there was one just filled with pictures of cute animals doing silly things
• When you travel anywhere on the main roads all the signs have North/South
• Sergio loves music and plays it really loud in his car so we can always tell when he's coming home.

So yeh hope you enjoyed them. I went to Capoeira for the first time on Tuesday. It was so exhausting. Like walking an entire day of Hadrain's wall in three hours. It's left my muscles screaming about the abuse they had to endure. Sadly they might just have to deal with it - I had a great time. All the people were really friendly. Although when I paused for a moment out of time with everyone else I had to do push-up's.

Me and Amina have been experimenting with non-contact wrestling when we're bored. 

We have really good chats here with Ruth during Once. Today we were saying how life should be enjoyed and that you should work to live, not live to work. All in Spanish. Quite impressed with myself. If you want some sort of measurement of how well I'm learning Spanish, Ruth thinks I've learned a lot for only being here two months. I sometimes feel like I should be able to speak more but then when I say an entire sentence without thinking about it I feel pretty good. Sometimes I forget that some people in the world don't speak Spanish. Or I imagine having conversations with people back home in Spanish before remembering that they speak English.

Here's some pictures from the last week. Happy October 18th everyone! Here's to 10 more months!

 People point out how we fight like an old married couple

 Danay, Me and Amina

 Me and Danay

 GIANT CAKE FOR ONLY 4000 PESOS! 

 We were killing time in a supermarket...Amina with toilet paper

 The best supermarket display ever for Halloween

 Me and Danielle when Ingrid took us all out to tea

Amina's natural expression!