Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Free day today! I slept in until 12, I think that I was a little bit tired : ) It felt amazing to finally catch up on some sleep! Emma and I slowly made our way to the Correo or post office and applied for Sube cards which you can charge with pesos and use on all the public transportation instead of having to use coin or buy tickets every time! We also made copies of our entire passport because tomorrow we start the process of applying for a visa. I can't imagine having to get one with out the help of ISA, there are multiple appointments and soooo many different papers and documents that you need, I am super lucky that they hold our hand through the process : ))

Today is my senoras, (host mom's) birthday so we bought her flowers from a street vendor, only 40 pesos! That's less than 10 dollars for a bouquet that would cost 40 dollars in the states : ))

I took public transportation for the first time today too! haha. This Wyoming girl has no idea about any of that so Emma went with me to "practice" today, she's very patient! There is a train station 3 minutes from my house so we took that and then SWITCHED to the subte (subway) and took that the rest of the way to the center of the city! I think that I prefer the train because the subte is sooo incredibly packed with people, the amount of people that live here is hard to wrap my mind around. 13 million is incomprehensible.

We explored downtown for a while and sat at  another cafe, I'm already in love with the coffee here : )) I am planning on keeping a sugar packet from every place I have a coffee : )

Grace is cooking fajitas for dinner and her two sons are going to be here for dinner, Tommy is older and he is a director and actor in commercials and Gonzalo graduated from the UB recently and is working on developing a clothing website. I am excited to meet the older son but I always freeze up and don't talk around people who are fluent. Can you imagine me not talking?!?! I know, it's weird for me too : )) haha.


After dinner we are going to a reggae/live music club with some other girls in the program, I am going to have to bust out my famous dance moves : ))

Tomorrow I will leave about 7 to get to the place for our visa and after that it's just another day in the life of a city girl, ayyy! Thanks everyone for following me on the blog, you can email me at kremke11@gmail.com if you need anything : )) I thank God daily for all the amazing family and friends that He has put in my life to support me through this adventure, I am so blessed!

Con amor! Bailey 

Grace and Emma! Emma is sick and wasn't in the mood for photos that's the reason for the lovely expression : ) The food has been amazing so far, last night was arroz con pollo, chicken and rice and some carrots in sauce. Delicious!

Recover Your Imagination. A fitting reminder on a building wall.

The beautiful flowers we bought! There are flower vendors on every block.

Platform 9 3/4 anyone? : ))

2 comments:

  1. Love that you're posting so often and adding pix! Our new favorite evening activity is reading your daily blog while we're hanging out on the couch.

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  2. Looks like you are having a great time Bailey!! Glad you are using technology while you are there too! Hope everything keeps going well, I will keep checking this for updates!

    Ryan

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