Bill got up before me and had a delicious omelet with toast, peanut butter and honey ready when I got up. Here is his post below! He wrote it yesterday evening, but I was too tired to post it last night.
We went down to the beach for a couple hours this morning before lunch and class. I tried out my snorkel gear, not really to see anything as the water in this area is rough and has a lot of fine sand and sparkling ground shell. It seemed to work well. The brand is Cressi, it is a frameless free diving mask and snorkel set. It made it easier to just swim. We are going to try and find a snorkeling tour and hopefully I will get good use of it.
When the tide comes in it brings debris. After there was a guy that was raking and cleaning up along the beach.
The apartment is getting more comfortable. Well not the furniture, the couch and the other main area furnishings remind me of IKEA. The bedrooms have beds and closets. It’s probably closer to Walmart put together stuff than IKEA. The humidity and the salt air takes a toll on everything, but it’s clean and functional.
There are a couple tvs here and some sort of cable but we’re not completely sure how the system works. We did watch some news and a show kind of like Survivor. If we watch something it is usually the ocean. I think we’ve stayed fairly busy without over doing it or getting bored, Emily may think otherwise. I still don’t have enough knowledge to speak Spanish with Emily. Occasionally I will throw a Spanish word out when we are talking in English though. I definitely need more practice.
Today was my second class and Karen is a very patient person. The first part of class seems to take a while, hour and forty minutes and then the last hour flies by!! I do get to practice my pronunciations a lot. I get to repeat words until Karen has deemed what I said to be satisfactory, or perfecto! It’s probably good I am in a private lesson. If others at my level have to repeat things as much as me, we would only learn a couple words a day.
After class today we went to look for a Waffles and Crepes place but it was no longer where the map said it should be. So we were walking and talking about what else sounded good when some guy with a laminated sheet held it up and started talking, I seen food and said let’s go! We had to follow the guy a ways down the street before getting to the restaurant. It was probably good they sent him way down to the corner because there wasn’t much else on that section of street. It was a good choice. It was a nice place and the food was excellent!! My rice was flavored with cocoa, very good! The fish was excellent, perfectly fried outside and moist inside!
Traveling with Emily! 