Debt

Monday, December 20, 2010

Saturday Shantonu and I rented a truck and went to Portoviejo (a nearby city) to buy house supplies. It was super fun buying all the stuff for my new place—brooms, cooking supplies, fridge, plates, etc) however its pricy and I still don’t have everything I’m going to want. Right now I can live here, I have a fridge and stove containers for food so today I’m going food shopping—legitimately—for my new house and I’m going to officially start cooking for myself…hopefully I wont die of hunger and it will be as good as I always thought it was (being able to chose what I eat, cooking healthy foods). My fam keeps joking about “when are you going to invite us over to eat” which I don’t mind them coming over and everyone hanging out at my house but I still am learning how to cook and me da virguenza (it embarrasses me) when they watch me cook or eat my food because I’m scared its going to taste bad. I mean I live with a chef so I don’t think ill ever win this cooking fight. I attempted to make peanut butter and oatmeal cookies the other day and I don’t know what happened but they just didn’t turn out completely right. Maybe it was the sketchy ‘baking powder’ or whatever I used, or the lack of ‘brown sugar’ or just that things are made differently here but they were sub-par.

I’m getting more excited about Christmas…it still doesn’t really feel quite like xmas yet but my secret amiga is one of my little girl friends whos 8 and so I’m not so nervous about getting her gift. I’ve also thought of pretty good gifts for my fam here so I’m excited to give them that and its fun when you think up all by yourself (without a list) a perfect gift…I hope they like it just as much as I hope they will. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get my fam gifts because they said they don’t really do that and I doubt theyre getting me ones but then I really thought about how 1.) I want to get them gifts as far as the espiritu navideno goes 2.) I would hate if they got me something and I didn’t get them something 3.) I stayed in their house for 4 months so even if we weren’t friends they deserve something and 4.) I mean, I thought of great gifts for them. Bring it on xmas!!