Well, more and more this place is feeling like "home", considering it's 2,500 miles from the real place! People ask me what I keep my time busy with and I look back at the days and wonder myself but the days keep filling up with something. Boredom isn't something that I've experienced yet and that's fine by me!
My Spanish is still very much in the rough stages though there really isn't a better way to learn than to be immersed in it. However, I was hanging out with the boys from the orphanage yesterday and I'm pretty sure they were trying to take advantage of the new white guy who doesn't speak a lot of Spanish and doesn't always know what is going on! I think they probably succeeded to some degree...
First, when I arrived at the orphanage, they started talking about me taking them to a different place to play soccer (in their broken English/Spanish). Well, after trying to confirm that this was ok with the parents (who only speak Spanish) we took off for a place about 15 minutes away. After playing about 20 minutes of soccer, though, one guy claimed that he had to use the washroom really bad. So, we got in the car and they guided us to a place where there was a washroom, which happened to be an arcade-type place owned by someone the boys knew. So, we ended up staying there for about half an hour playing some ps2. Then after insisting that we needed to get back home, they tried to convince me that they needed to stop by the store first to pick up some treats. Well, we managed to make it home without hitting the store but I couldn't help but wonder if I was just some easy pray for these scheming 10 year olds! Nonetheless, I've had a lot of fun connecting with these boys and unfortunately, the orphanage parents are leaving at the end of this month so their worlds are going to be turned upside down for the next while.
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