October 24

Today, I had a rather interesting experience. I went to my modern class at 7:30. The class usually starts at 7, but on Wednesday the professor can't get to class until 7:30 (or so I gather). Anyway, for the past few weeks we've been having problems with the professor getting there before 8... 8:15 even. Usually there are a good number of people who leave or are encouraging everyone to leave. I think that some are worried about being counted absent if everyone doesn't go at the same time. Anyway, there is at least one girl who refuses to go because she likes this class and we only have this professor on Wed, so usually we wait the some 45 minutes until he shows up. Today we waited 45 minutes... and I think we would have left, but today the students seemed to be in the dancing mood... so we gave the class ourselves! We did the warm up and went through exercises. The accompanist on the drums even played for us. We danced pretty hard for about 45 minutes... but at 9 people started to peater out and leave. It was fun though. Everyone was in such a good mood! Laughing and talking and playing around but dancing! A couple of the girls were even doing funny impressions of the prof. every now and then (in the states I would consider this rather disrespectful... but I don't know what to think of it here, and everyone else seemed to think it was great so... shrug). There was even a short rendition of Let the Sunshine In... which immediately got stuck in my head. I'm still thinking about the whole thing and it makes me laugh. The prof. never showed up.

Anyway, earlier today my Spanish class got canceled... and luckily someone from FLACSO called to tell me so I could sleep in. Then I went to a fabulous lunch with Lauren. We sat outside at the tables on the side walk and had hamburgers (seriously these have to be the best hamburgers in the world) and french fries. It was warm and sunny, but we were sitting in the shade... and it was perfect!

Tomorrow is Laurens birthday potluck dinner. I'm making quesadillas and sangría. Lauren is turning 21!!!! I'm very excited. You'll hear about it I'm sure! Goodnight!