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13^th of April 2011

It's my birthday in exactly a week. I think it will be fun because I will teach the day of my birthday. And I love teaching! Today at the end of the class we played pictionnary, one of the words I picked for them to draw was Mrs Corina. This is what they drew. We all laughed so much.

The rest of the time we are suppose to plan our courses. Clearly I don't take 10 hours to plan courses. I don’t get it but whatever.

Yesterday it was the principal's birthday we cooked from 5 to 9 pm and had this sit down dinner with all these people from the school and school board ( I'm presuming.) It was fun except I kept feeling very faint, it was really weird, I didn't feel sick just very dizzy and weird.. I don't think I drank enough water to be honest. I need to be more careful about that. Melanie helps me a lot and sort of takes care of me.

Yesterday I also missed Tom a lot. It really got to me. I guess the first week you're still on the buzz of the novelty of it all and then you start missing people. I realized yesterday how much he is my comfort and my rock when I have hard days. I worry about him a lot, if he is okay, if he is eating well, if someone has asked him – how was your day Tom?- and that that someone didn't just settle for an -okay- but probed further to listened to his complicated yet entertaining work/geology stories. Take care of my Thomas for me.

It is so cold in the mountains, I can't believe it. I should have brought my winter coat and winter boots. The thing is that they don't have heating and the temperature changes so fast during the day. I sleep with a tuque on that I bought here. Apparently the month of July here is the worst, sometimes they even get snow.

Food and hotels are cheap however i haven’t found clothes very cheap. I don't like spending money all that much so maybe that's my problem.

Lunch is in 40 minutes. I am starving I am always starving. Mélanie and I sort of do our own groceries and eat sometimes at the caf here when we are starving. They serve big meals for really cheap like 4 soles. We dont have a stove or fridge but we bought a kettle so we have coffee in the morning. Usually we only eat lunch at the caf and fend for ourselves for supper.

I still don't feel super today I don't know why, I don't feel as faint I just feel sad and weird. Tomorrow is a new day and then its only a half day Friday and we are back to Arequipa.