Mass.

We are not required to go to church here, but they do highly recommend it for several reasons. There is the main church that we are next to, or technically in the same building as, but we can go out and explore. There are not a vast number of churches but there are several catholic churches. A part of our international studies class is that we have to do an assignment about religion in Uruguay. Taylor and Lauren had to visit a catholic church for their paper, so me, dara, and kate decided to join them this morning. Well, it was actually more of afternoon. Mass started at 12:00 so we got up and went. My lovely shoes rubbed blisters on the way there and on the way back. The service only lasted an hour, it was interesting but that was about it cause i didn't understand most of it. Taylor, Kate, and I went to get pizza. Their pizza is different here but it is really good, from this place anyway. After pizza it was time for homework..exactly what i wanted to be doing on a sunday afternoon in Uruguay. Anyway, monday is our Latin America studies class so i spent most of my afternoon reading for that class. I read until 5 when we got together with the youth from Iglesia de Cristo and we sing with them in english and spanish. Afterwards a group of us went with them to Punta Carretas to get dinner. I have now successfully ordered for myself twice without getting confused and not understanding what the cashier is saying. Yay! We got back just in time for our 9 o'clock church service that we have in the casa. It is like our weekly english service. At the end of that I had a long conversation with Rosalinda who is one of our directors, i really enjoyed getting to talk to her and get to know her better and share part of my life with her. I had figured this out before, but we also discussed that I was in band with her daughter in law, so that was interesting. I got called away by my roommate to go talk to my parents, talked to them for a bit, finished some homework, showered and then went to bed...eventually.

Monday. Oh how i love mondays..not. This monday was extra busy cause not only did i have all of my classes, we had tango tonight, but i will get to that later. Breakfast this morning was amazing. Well first of all, my room got up late this morning so that was fun, but we were able to scarf a quick breakfast before chapel. Anyway, Raquel who is the main cook was back to work today. We had a fill-in last week cause Raquel was interestingly enough in the staates while we were coming here. Kind of a coincidence if you ask me, but you didn't. We had the normal eggs and bacon, but we had banana pancakes. They were so good. Spanish was okay it seemed to last forever tho, and i was right by the door so we were able to start smelling food, it smelled so good. One strange thing about Uruguay is they don't have very good mexican food, part of that is because we are all used to going to school and most of us living in texas and now we come here and their mexican food is nothing like our tex-mex, which i love so much. But today Raquel made us fajitas, and i'm not talking like buy tortillas and meat from the store and heat it up, i'm talking homemade tortillas, chicken, guacamole, the whole nine yards...we were in heaven. Today was the second day since we have been here that i had a food baby afterwards. It is a good thing that we walk so much and stuff or I would come back weighing twice as much as i do now. So anyway, yes lunch was very good. On to Biochem, so far the class is not that bad, i am enjoying having a nine person class, it makes it easier to concentrate and it's nice knowing the professor like on a personal level. Straight from biochem we go to LA studies, this class always drags on forever, it wasn't terrible today but it was also cut an hour short due to our evening activity. We took our quiz over what we read which wasn't great but could have been much worse. We discussed the book and then split up into groups and translated a song that discussed the same topic, but then we were done. Yay! We had two hours before tango which was going to be used to do homework, but then instead we tried to kill the mold growing in my mate. We will see how that goes. But that turned into taking crazy pictures in the kitchen on kate's computer. And then finally it was time for tango! First they came in and did the history, and then showed us a demonstration and then it was our turn. We had to learn how to walk, so we circled the room walking. We learned a basic stance and then split into guys and girls to learn our respective parts. Then it was time to practice. After that they taught us the actual stance, and then would throw in a few other things here and there. It was fun, a little awkward at times. Autumn took a ton of pictures so those should be interesting, and i can't wait to see them. I danced with all but one of our guys, they were all pretty good, but i had trouble remembering to let them lead. If enough of us are interested, we may start taking weekly tango lessons, but we will see. After that was just chilling, eating dinner, finishing homework and what not. The next several days are going to be very busy, especially wednesday, but i'll wait and let y'all hear about that when the time comes, as for now i am gonna get ready and go to bed.