Friday

More classes. Although we made guacamole in Spanish class, so there was a nice snack. Also, I have noticed that it is becoming easier to think in Spanish, rather than thinking of the English word and then translating that into Spanish. Which I think is very cool.
In the afternoon we did more work on our latrine. We poured in the concrete for the slabs and it should be dry in a couple of days. We also made a teeny tiny mistake. For extra stability, we made a frame of rebar for the concrete slab. We had finished pouring the concrete and were ready to leave when Sara picked up the frame and said, “Isn’t this supposed to be in the concrete?” Yes, yes it was. Luckily the concrete wasn’t too dry yet so we just jammed it in there and smoothed the concrete over it. Hope it works!
This evening we watched ‘Volver’ for Spanish class. I brought this chocolate drink called chicolat, which is delicious. It comes in little bags, which is funny. A lot of the dairy drinks come in bags, even yogurt. The yogurt is a little thinner than the yogurt in the States though, which makes it possible to drink from a bag. I also brought Oreos, yum! The only problem was that the movie was in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. It would have been ok, but the actors spoke extremely fast. It was a good movie, but very confusing and I’m not sure if I got the plot right. Oh well, we’ll discuss it on Monday in class.