First Day of Classes

Today was a long day obviously because it's 1:30 AM here so this is going to be very quick.  Today was our first day of classes.  It was pretty fun...Gardner, Elizabeth, SG, AG, Rakiya, Chris, and I are all in the same class.  First we had culture & speaking with Marisol for 2 hours then we had grammar with Veronica for an hour.  We ate lunch at UVM because at 2 we had a team building class with everyone which was lead by our volunteer leaders, Lister and Rayen.  For one activity, we had to act out a character building work so our group acted out warmth and we made Laura Kate sit on the ground and fling her hair around like fire and we all gathered around her to warm our hands....it was really funny but our leaders definitely didn't understand why we were laughing.  After class most of us rode a bus to the mall so a few people could get cell phones.  We had frozen yogurt & we looked in some stores then went to the beach.  Most people had bathing suits but nobody actually put them on because it was overcast so we looked so weird walking on the beach with backpacks, fully clothed.  Of course people were staring & pointing at us yelling "oh look there's gringos."  It's not really creepy anymore...just funny because we're always being stared at.  Next we just sat at some tables by the beach and did homework then left to go home.  Gardner, LK, Chris, Brody, Tara, and I rode a bus towards town and LK and I got a little lost on the way home but we eventually saw my building and finally made it back.  I had dinner with the fam and then did homework.  It was an interesting first day of class but it was good :) Tomorrow we have class again in the morning then we start our volunteering in the afternoon.