do not worry... i am alive.

so this keyboard is a bit strange. therefore, i may make plenty of mistakes. but i just wanted to let everyone know that i am alive. i have so much to write about, but i was told by my family that we are going out at 12:30, therefore i will need to head out soon. although here, when they say 12:30, they may actually mean 1:00 or so... but you just never know, so i try to be a bit ready at the time given to me. i have no idea where we are going, and i don´t even think they attempted to explain it to me beacuse they knew i would have no idea what they were saying. that is a common theme around here... me having absolutely no idea what is going on. i hope to get better. at dinner last night i said in my really horrible spanish, "i speak really bad spanish, but i want you to help me learn." so then they went around at the room, pointing at objects, letting me know the spanish word for them. the issue though is that i basically knew all those words. i know vocabulary. i just can´t put sentences together worth a darn. oh well, i´m told one gets over this phase quite soon.

anyway, i best be heading out soon so i am not late. but i wanted you to all know that i am doing fine, and i will in fact update you on my actual life quite soon. the problem was that i didn´t have a computer. and i was told i couldn´t go out on my own because i don´t know our area yet. my padre said, "uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco days... sales." which basically means in 5 days, i can go out. apparently until then i have to stay in. which i don´t know how staying is teaching me anything about the area i live in, but i suppose they have their reasoning. and we are going out today, so perhaps this will be my lesson in going out? anyway, i have a computer in my room, and i asked if it had internet and they told me it was broken. then today their 25 year old daugher came home (who honestly looks... and acts... like an 18 year old), freaked out because her parents hadn´t gotten me on the internet. and they said it was broken. and she exclaimed it wasn´t and then proceeded to show me how to get online. so fancy that - here i am in my room, writing online. but just because i have internet access in my room does not mean i´m going to use it all the time. i want to experience life here, and not be immersed in life at home.

but do expect an update from me QUITE soon (perhaps even later today) because i know this is not adequate at all.

...until then.