and tonite we dance like we´ve never danced before

funny thing-my bug bites have turned to blisters! sweeeet. actually our host mom was laughing like HYSTERICALLY when she saw them. oh celestina, why must you take such pleasure in our pain. the last time she laughed that hard was when she hit justin with the ortega stick.

but no bother, and even if we have yet to see any llamas, edor is still rocking it out. today is our last day in gualapuro and we are trying to soak it all in. the mountain has disappeared the past few days...we suspect on a vacation to the coast, where part of our group will be heading tomorrow. we have made many successful family dinners..spaghetti, chile and all the flan you could ever want...2 batches worth thank yuh.

we went to cuicocha, guinea pig lake and didn´t see any guinea pigs but the lake was everyone´s favorite crayola color, cerulean. some good words of wisdom we´ve heard so far in gualapuro-

-if you put dog tears in your eyes, you can see ghosts. (our host sis)

-tomorrow is my 8th birthday and i´m going to eat 40 meters of cake. (our man ishmael)
(note-this was later found to be an inaccurate statement)

-DAS DAS DAS DAS (dance party central)

speaking of dance party...tonite we are to perform uhh for like the entire community. they want us to do some kind of cross cultural exchange and peform...so we have chosen to do a rendition of the peanut butter jelly song that you all may know of. it goes a lil something liek this-

peanutbutterjellytime peanutbutterjellytime whereuat whereuat peanutbutterjellyandabaseballbat

this will then lead us into take me out to the ball game...and of course we will be making a human pyramid with corozon to pay hommage to our gpuro backdrop.

the school looks better and better. we FINALLY kinda finished painting the one room white...oh man...so many coats of pain...so many white splotches in my eyebrows. we also rocked it with an assembly line to move a huge pile of bricks up to the ceiling, where janelle narrowly escaped a brick rockslide.

we totally got to use the icepack i brought..in fact our first aid kit is almost out. we are so hardcore.

justin and pedro got keys to the city from the boys at transito´s and mary has a boyfriend by the name of ishmael. (yes the same lying cat who claimed he would eat 40 meters of cake)

melissa is trying to curb her strip club addiction and anna, or as she´s known here ¨the devil¨, is a fly killer extraordinaire.

we are hoping to be back here in december...if the school is already done then perhaps we can help by teaching english. in any case, the champaign-gpuro connection has been made and i think it will last a lifetime.

p.s. we have watched mulan 2 about 3 times now.