We Finally Have Internet!

Yes. Its true. I am currently coming to you (although not live unless you can somehow see this as I type…creepy) from our living room. David got the call during our Tuesday Spanish lesson that Telmex could come this week and LUCKILY Rosa comes on Wednesday’s so they were able to come while she was there. It did take some Spanish-English dictionary translating by David to send Rosa a text (she never answers her phone) that made sense, and leave a note just in case so she wouldn’t be surprised. I stayed and played Volleyball at school until about 6 or so and David played tennis with our principal so neither of us got home until later in the evening, of course assuming that something inevitably would have gone wrong, or we wouldn’t know the password and we’d have to wait another month for them to come back. When I walked into our apartment and saw our modem it was a little like Christmas morning. I know that not having Internet is a silly thing to complain about compared to a lot of other things, but I was relying on Skype to communicate with my family not to mention keeping people at home up to date with my blog AND planning and putting in grades. Life got a lot easier with that little modem. However, knowing that I can in fact survive without Internet in our apartment, I am going to try to make a point to not waste my time on it as much as a admittedly often do. You can expect an influx of blog posts in the next few days though.

As I write this David is streaming the Bears season opener and just turned his computer to me and exclaimed “Look! Its the Bears!” Apparently its still a little like Christmas morning, 5 days later.

Still Disconnected

Still no Internet at home, but we´re hoping it will get set up by this Wednesday. The problem is, the company wants to speak to one of use directly, but only have people who speak Spanish and have no one to translate, but insist that they must speak to us personally. Of course that meant Sebastian put on his best gringo accent and has been pretending to be David on the phone, and Scott and Michael. Friday afternoon they could finally go into the company to actually set things up, which David took care of (while I laid out and read at the pool). So with any luck they will be able to come by this week, which probably means next week. We did discover that Crepes & Waffles (yes that´s a real restaurant in Cali around the corner from us) has free Wi-Fi, but I don´t always feel safe carting around my laptop and displaying it in public. The biggest frustration is mostly because I was relying on using Skype to communicate with friends and family back home and I can´t get it to work at school, not to mention most people are working when I would be calling from school. Bah humbug.

Other than that not much to update on, spent some time this weekend relaxing with friends by the pool and drinking Sangria at Blondie´s, a great bar in San Fernando with a great selection of classic American music. I mean when the Grease medley is played, you know it’s a great place. Speaking of Grease, that is the all-school musical this year, and you better believe I´ll find a way to get involved in that. Students are still great, open house is tomorrow, so I´m going to get my nails done tonight, because the parent´s tend to be very interested in how teachers dress and present themselves, which means I also have some serious ironing to do since our maid doesn’t come until Wednesday. Yes we got a maid. Yes this is normal in Colombia. And while I originally thought it was just lazy to get a maid I realized the following things: 1. Cali is very dusty and ALL tile floors are VERY hard to keep clean. 2. No dryer means ironing everything. 3. Rosa was very grateful to have people to fill her schedule so employing someone else is really great 4. $33.000/visit (about $16 USD) is TOTALLY worth it.

Well now that I have sufficiently wasted almost my entire prep, I must get back to work. More to come later, including Cooking in Colombia!