MOVING

i found an apartment! it's very close to school but also on a big street with lots going on around it! and it's near a good metro that can take me downtown and connect to a lot of places. AND it's with students! 2 girls and one guy and i don't think they go to my school but at least they are young! and they are from here, so i was talking to two of them and they don't really speak much english which only means i will be FORCED to speak spanish, ha! this is a good thing.

the place is way bigger than the one i have now, and it has two whole bathrooms, yeah! but my room is not any bigger, and no balcony off of it =( but i'll deal. i think it will be better. i have to tell Joana tonight when she comes home because i will move out December 1 so i don't have to pay two rents. she will probably freak out but what does she expect with no contract or anything? she better give me my deposit back!!!

but anyways the people seem really nice and laid-back, though there's one i haven't met yet. and the place is very colorful with a different color for every room. mine is like a bright royal blue.

i went to get my haircut today because i was bored and i had no idea what i wanted. i went to this place i always pass that looked cool and not too scary and i ended up getting a young guy to cut my hair, i've never had a guy do my hair! but i gave him some ideas and told him to just go for it and he said he knew what to do. and he did a really good job, i quite like it! i don't even think he used scissors, just a bunch of razors and stuff?? but i'll have to post a picture when i get one.

i've noticed some things with the language barrier:
*i have started checking myself even when i'm speaking english. since a lot of people have a hard time with it, i have to make sure i'm clear, so even when i start talking to someone who speaks it, i'm thinking about everything i'm about to say and how to say it.

*if i see people speaking english online (like facebook) i am surprised. like i forget about it in america. i don't know how to explain it, it's weird. but i see english flowing freely and easily and i'm like wow! i forgot what it's like to talk like that hahaha.

*i take my notes in spanglish. it's confusing. i don't know why i do it. some things make more sense in spanish. but some things i have to translate so i write it in english so i understand. some kid next to me was like, what language are you writing?? and i told him "both," and he laughed. but he said i am brave =)

*sometimes when i am with two people who are from germany or something, they will be speaking english, but they will be stumbling a bit and i'm like, why don't you just switch to german?? even if i'm not in the conversation. and if i am i wouldn't mind.

*lastly, it's cool when all of us international kids bond over our faulty, flawed, fallible spanish, and how hard we all try to speak it with eachother :)