day 18: respect

we decided to shake things up today and not eat lunch at our typical place, stella's bakery. we went to a restauraunt that served "the best hamburgers in costa rica" and i must admit they were pretty good. it was great to have a 1/2 lb hamburger and fries and think back to whataburger which i miss almost as much as taylor. after that i hung out at home and had my family help me with my homework some. i haven't been studying too much lately and i've been frustrated in class because i dont know most of the verbs the other students are using. i decided i'll work on studying more my last 2 weeks so i can learn as much as possible before i leave and head back to texas to forget everything. maybe neto will let me practice my espanol with him. we listened to "fotografia" by juanes y nelly furtado in glass today, not too bad for a song in spanish pretty catchy although i couldn't understand all the words. at night we went to our local hangout, la taberna, and played some pool. it was awesome because a lot of students were there last night. typically there are 5 or so of us but last night there were at least 20 and 2 of our professors even came. left there around midnight, tried to go to super pollo for a late snack but it was closed, oh well. probably not the best idea to eat post-midnight.

my house has 4 kids and i still haven't seen them get in trouble yet. it's pretty disappointing, i think they're the most well behaved children i've ever seen. not once have i heard the mom or grandma yell at them or tell them to stop what they're doing. i know when i was 12-14 i was getting in trouble on a daily, if not hourly, basis for doing something dumb. you can see how much the kids respect their elders and that discipline is really important in their culture. it's pretty neat really.