New Beginnings in a New Country: It's still my birthday :)

Don't even think to question me. My birthday goes on for a week every year. Personally, I think it should be the whole month of April. But then we run into the problem that Maddie, the Queen of the house, has a birthday on April 25. Boy oh boy do we know they are gonna celebrate with her more than me.

But really, my birthday weekend was great! Mica's birthday was Friday and she had a party at her house. I went over there with Nico and Mike. Mica is AWESOME! She had an alarm set at midnight to wish me happy birthday :) She also is a better cook than Johnny... yeah I said it ;) I think these 2 need to have a cook off when she comes to visit me in the USofA! We stayed at her house until about 5:15am... I probably got to sleep around 6:15. I slept all day! I completely slept my birthday away and I loved every minute of it. I went to Spanglish where the lovely ladies of Spanglish had a warm brownie and ice cream with a candle for me. Mercedes had a passion fruit cake for me which was delicious. I went out after Spanglish and met some natives, which was awesome. But on Sunday, I slept all day.... I'm old yall. I can't hang anymore.

Last night, I went to Analia's house with Lauren. Those are both 2 great girls from my certification class. Analia had been in Peru basically since we were done with the course, so we hadn't seen her in a while. It was great to catch up! Lauren got me this DELICIOUS birthday cake. I don't know how to explain it, but I do know that if you are reading this and you live in Capital then you better get here quick.

Work has been very very stressful these past few days. We just got the books that I'm supposed to teach out of, which the students hate. I don't really know what to do about that... I obviously didn't choose them. I had to cancel my class this evening because the stupid subte was down and I couldn't get on complete opposite side of town by taking a bus or taxi in an hour and 40 minutes. So that was a bummer. Then I was trying to plan my lessons for tomorrows classes and looked at the syllabus for what they did last year. Well it's a report in ALL Spanish and my boss won't translate it for me until I come to his office. I'm sorry, you hired me as a native ENGLISH teacher, right? So speak to me in English, nobody said I knew English!

Whew, sorry for venting! I knew I had not posted in a while, so I wanted to say hey and that I am alive!!
I'll add a few pictures from this weekend!