Saludos de Uruguay!
I am now just over 1/2 way through my second week of Language school while living with a local family here. It is going well as far as I can tell. I at the advanced beginner level according to the school I am attending. Every day I learn ALOT but its difficult to practice it all and retain it all....poco Y poco (little by little)
Yesterday I went on a school activity where we rode a local bus almost an hour away to walk up to the highest place in the City. The view there was absolutely spectacular back towards the city. There is an old fort from the 1800´s that was built to help defend Montevideo with old cannons and some neat stuff. I also went to lunch near the port with a gal from Euorpe who also is going to school here, and we shared some type of "mystery fish" at a restaurant. None of the fish listed on the menus were in our diccionaries so we just picked one. All we knew was that it was grilled...It was delicious, and by far the most flavorful meal I have had here.
today the busses went on strike but will start again at 3 p.m....could turn out to be a huge mess. They are wanting more money. I can´t even imagine the problems that would cause in this huge City of over 1.5 million people who mostly commute by bus. There are always lines of people waiting all along the streets for busses. If I had to walk back to where I am living I would have to do some heavy map navigation, and it would take me about 2 hrs....there are many other suburbs (barios) farther away.
thanks for the prayers and I miss so many of you!
Holly
