Settling in... (Oct. 31)

I'm doing pretty good. I have some of those uncomfortable mements with culture, but so far they haven't caused problems. My family has been awesome, I have two brothers (Kevin and Alfredo), two sisters (Yea Jin<also known as Rocio> and Kely), and karsten. I'm getting more used to Santa Cruz itself also, I took a micro yesterday by myself to downtown.
So I'm enjoying my time. I have had the one or two days when I just wanted people to just speak english or just transport to and english speaking zone, but It never lasted long (one ocassion was after a very frustrating session of teaching english, not to successfully). But I'm starting to feel very comfortable (used losely) in my spanish. Some days I feel like I understood everything said to me (Sometimes with lots of repition, but I understand what they say). At the same time everyonce in a while I (and I've found others feel this too) I just can't understand anything said to me no matter if its simple. Sometimes brains just refuse to think in another language I guess. But with all the Spanish practice my english is declining a little bit, hehe. I just typed "sed"(which means thirst in spanish but is pronounced "said") instead of "said" and had to correct it.

Here are some pictures for you to see = )
 This is my album that I should be updating regularly??? though I might put it into more than one album if there are lots of pictures.
Octubre By Kim Kim Kim (Friend) Don't know if this is public? Most of these pictures are from the birthday we had for the kids a Tajibos. Project IDI (Korean, Food for the Hungry) celebrates birthdays in groups. So on wendsday this week we had a birthday for like.... 500 Kids? I should find out the right number... But I have some pictures that I will link RIGHT (not done yet, it will be blue) HERE of the same event that I have on my camera... once i get around to it of course. =D

Gloria Showalter's Bolivia Pictures  I'm pretty sure these are public.