Today we left for school at 8. Eduardo walked us to the bus stop and we waited for quite a while, 20 minutes or so. It finally came, the fair is less than a dollar, about 65 cents a trip. We arrived at school and had our orientation meeting where they explained the excursions and they was school is setup up. We have conversation classes twice a week for two hours and every day we have four hours of regular class. We hit the ground running to say the least we studied hard and fast. We covered a lot of materiel. OH ya, our teacher is named Alejandro. He is so cool, he really appears to be the nicest guy. Very soft spoken and friendly. We talked about the future tense. It was crazy I had never heard of it before. It wasn't too too hard, just a little weird. It was crazy to dive into new material after day one. I cant believe how much I feel like I have learned. San Jose is such an interesting city, it is very large, millions in fact, but the landscape is very very low, there are now highrises or sky scrapers. The city is very congested, tons of drivers and even more pedestrians. We live in a Barrio called Moravia in another area called Los Collegios. Its quite a nice area however, despite how nice the area EVERY building in the city is heavily protected, all the windows have bars on them. Our house has three armored gates. It takes like 10 minutes to enter our house. Pretty funny. Ill talk about food and cultural stuff tomorrow.
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Well we here and boy was it a weird day. We left St. George at 1030 and arrived in LV at around 1115 because you gain an hour going into Nevada. We took the drive from the airport and got our first taste of San Jose driving, man oh man is it crazy, traffic laws, if they exist are not at all obeyed. People swerve, pass and do as they need to get where they are going, ironically, people here are super patient and rage driving doesn't happen. People are super kind and thoughtful. Pura Vida I suppose. Our family is super sweet there names are Eduardo y Alba. They are really helpful and fun. They try to only speak Spanish with us. Our roommates are from Texas. two sets of cousins. One set, Mike and Joseph are brothers and the other Richard and Clarissa are Bro and Sister.They are flippin sweet. We have hit it off great. I didn't sleep very well last night though. The new environment aka ITS FREAKIN HOT AND HUMID, really is throwing me off already. I feel sticky and nasty all the time. Hopefully Ill get used to it. Tonight's dinner was so good and I'm so excited to start school today. I have lots to say about the city and how interesting it is Ill get to that tomorrow.
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This is s test to see how my camera phone takes pictures of food.
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First of all that word is actually kind of hard to spell. Its tricky. So for that last year or so I have been working for a Telecommunications company called Ranger Communications. Its awesome! I really like it. Its not like your normal job. Its not even close to 9-5, the skill set required is really great to have. Its a really strange mix of construction-ess skills and technical skills, basically its a great mix of the physical and mental tasks. This post is not about my job however, its about what I have learned while on the job. We work at businesses. We go onsite and install and service BTS Phones for small or medium sized businesses. I have learned a lot about corporate America. What a terrible terrible place to be. Whoa. it makes me very sad. I have heard stories of the dreaded cubicle farms the burden of deadlines and not to mention wearing "business attire". I have to say however that the saddest thing I have seen is all the silliness that almost seems to fester in such setting. The bickering, the fighting, the cutthroat dog eat dog mentality of corporate America. I have been privy to MANY conversations that I did not want to hear. Its almost wild. I laugh a lot at the stories I hear and shake my head even more. I have even seen yelling and near crying.
So as I have spent a lot of time working amongst these "corpos" as they will be known from here on I have wondered, Why!? Why??? I don't understand why this exists. I have narrowed it down to a few possible reasons.
1. Human Nature of Movement and Exploration
2.Greed
3. Inner Frustration
I am going to explore each of these further in later posts. But what I would like to do now is to initiate an almost interactive blog. For those few of you who read this. I would Love to hear what you think about my 3 possible ideas and what you think could be other more viable reasons. Also if you have any experiences working for the man.
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Okay. All I'm saying is that everyone once and a while you see an Image so prolific...so mind bendingly awesome that you have to scream it from the rooftops. I love this little girl. I want her to be my pal. I want her to come to my house to sell cookies. Id spend like fifty bucks on cookies if this girl sold em. Man. I love this picture. Enjoy all.
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER I wrote this two years ago. Im only publishing it because I think its funny. I no longer feel this way. Okay your right..yes I do.. EXCEPT for my wife. Im not just saying this to stay out of trouble... honestly as honest as I can be. She is very very forthright. Enjoy.
I don't hate women....really I don't. I know what you are thinking..."oh great another rage blog about chicks" its not a rage blog, more of a constructive criticism blog.
I have been thinking a lot, as I do. I am not about to make any judgments or even TRY to explain women, that's like understanding how rice crispies snap, crackle AND pop, and like why everything from China smells like fish, or why seeing someone get kicked in the chone chones is so funny, or why people buy Volvo's or why a human being would vote for hilary clinton....it just can not be explained. I'm instead going to attempt to just make a few suggestions to the wonderful group of people known as 'women'. here are a few things I think would help out the world
1. Don't lie.
2. Don't be liars.
3. Don't bear false witness
4. Be honest
5. Be a not liar.
6. Only tell the truth
7. Be a truth teller.
8. Be an anti-liar advocate(and practice what you advocate)
My suggestions may be numerous but they are simple.
For instance....if you don't want to go on a date. Follow rule number 6.
If you do have feelings for a young man, follow rule number 1
If you are asked a question follow rule number 7
If someone does really look fat rules 1-8 do not apply.
Ladies...I love you....remember these are only minor suggestions.
Read this. I proved it.
http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2008/03/do-women-lie-more.html
Ps. This blog has no specific reference to any one particular woman. Don't give yourself that much credit
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Going to College for things that require reading and writing severely inhibits me from keeping a valid blog. I have nothing a worth to say I suppose. And I just saw that I actually had some people who commented on one or two of my posts. I had no idea. Sorry to all of you who I ignored. Ignorantly I swear...hehe. Well maybe it will be good for me to write more. I thought I was merely keeping an online journal. Odd sounding pair of words...Online Journal...odd. Anywho. ALSO I found some pages that I never posted. I will do so. they are funny. Because I wrote them TWO years ago. I was silly(er). Anywho Again....So just a few minutes ago I had an idea. I write all ALL ALLL the time. I should just post what I write. So here it is. For the next while Im just going to post my History writings. Most of which are elementary. But one im actually pretty proud of. I worked my tookes off writing it. HA. any who. Here are a few. Im also aware that these are too long for most attention spans...either way. I want to post them.
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