Mission Paloma.

Currently, my roomate and I can't stop laughing. We have caused some chaos tonight, but I'll begin with this morning, or rather, last night:
Mamá Tica has two cats, one of which likes to spend time in our room. Her name is Angie and I posted a picture of her last night. Anyways, on the way to school this morning, I started telling my roomie about my dream. I usually can't remember my dreams, but for some reason, this dream was very vivid. In my "dream" I remember Angie jumping on my bed and visiting with me for a while. Then she proceeded to paw her way to open the curtains and then make her way outside...however, the windows here are quite different. They are more similar to shutters, and each piece of glass has, at most, 4 inches between the next piece of glass. Outside of this window, there is metal work that criss-crosses and covers the window. Anywho I vividly remember her going into the curtains and not coming back. I knew this had to be a dream because I thought it physically impossible for the cat to manuever herself through the glass panes and metal squares. In my dream I sat up, and wondered what I should do... should I go outside and bring her back in? I was awake and sitting up at this point, but I layed back down, deciding that her escape was most certainly a dream.

Well, as I was working on my homework tonight, Angie, once again came to visit me on my bed. She began to paw at the curtains, which I had already closed. I crept behind her, and sure enough, my roomate and I watched her slide through the glass panes and twist her body throught the metal squares. We laughed so hard...did that really just happen? It sure did, and I was quite pleased to be a witness to Angie's escape because it reassured me that I don't have weird dreams and that no estoy loca!

The other excitement of the night refers back to the title of this blog...la paloma. My roomate and I are trying our darndest to only speak in Spanish while we are in our room. The story goes like this: I'm studiously conjugating verbos when a semi-large moth flies around me. I swat at it, and I'm less than successful. "Bicho grando," yo grité. It lands on the curtains. Perfect, I can get my flip flop and kill this sucker. My roomate looks at me, a little puzzled. "¡Voy a matarlo! I quickly respond. Slightly kinder to bugs than me, she puts a halt to my plan to smash the bug. "Lo vamos a rescuar" she says. Well if she wants to save it, fine by me, I just want it out of my sight. She grabs a napkin and slowly goes in for the attack. I'm sure you can predict what happens next...it flies and we both scream like the girls that we are.

Mamá Tica and her granddaughter are standing in our doorway within and instant. "¿Qué está pasando, chicas?" she asks. I explain the "bicho grande" that we are tratando de captuar. "Oh es solamente una paloma" Mamá Tica informs us. (paloma is Spanish for moth) At this point the paloma is chilling behind my headboard, so we move my bed, carefully capture it, take it outside, and set it free en la calle. Mission Paloma accomplished!

In other news, I am now in my second week of school. Apparently Intercultura likes to switch things up, because today the majority of the classes were assigned a different room and a different teacher than last week. Oh and they also changed our schedule. Last week, we had our Flagler class in the mornings and then had Spanish class from 1:30 to 5:30. Now, we have Spanish from 8:30 to 12:30 and then Flagler class starts at 1:45. Aside from waking up earlier (and sleeping through my alarm this morning) I like this schedule better because the day finishes much earlier, which gives us time to spend in the city or do whatever without rushing home for a 6 pm dinner.

With only myself and one other student today, class was very intimate. I was disappointed when I found out I wouldn't have the same teacher as I had last week, but I am happy with this teacher as well. She has three kids and is very motherly. Her accent is a bit easier to understand and with such a small class we get to have a lot of oral practice as well as written practice.

We are making plans for a trip this weekend, so I will keep ya'll updated when I know more details!

¡Hasta mañana!

♥ Morgancita