8th day

I wake up at around 6:30 a.m. every day due to mi hermanito yelling, the construction going on above my head (mi familia is building a second floor), dogs fighting, or roosters crowing. This is unfortunate because my earliest class is at 9, only on Fridays. The other days I have class at 11:30 or 1:00. At U of I, I normally went to bed around 12:30am and got up at 8:30 am and now I’ve pushed everything two hours earlier, even though my classes are so late. I don’t even get to sleep in on weekends. Today was a free day because we were supposed to ride the teleferico, which gives you a beautiful view of the city, but because of apagones (power shortages), we are doing it later. So instead I made empanadas con mi mamá con queso y platanos. Then I explored Lumbisí with Kaye a little, but we ended up talking for an hour on this rusted swings at the estadio (stadium). The rest of the day I spent with mi familia and studying the new words I’m learning. I try to write down as many words I hear that I don’t understand. It’s not always convenient and I forget them before I have a chance to write them down, so I’m not that good at it.