She left soon after and about 8pm I decided to see if I
could find Jhon or Bob or if not I would try to get something to eat at
Viva. Jhon’s office was closed but I
found Bob at the corner store with 2 Colombianos (Colombian men) and Margarita. In Bob & Margarita’s on again, off again
relationship I understand they are on again.
We had a good time, laughing and trying to figure out what the other was
saying. Bob understands Spanish (so he
says) better than I but I can speak more Spanish then he. Bob kept saying “Me idioto but me no
stupido”. And he gave one of the men his
first English lesson “You suck!”. They
keep telling him he’s a “malo hombre” – “bad man”, while they tell me I’m the
“bueno hombre” “good man”, maybe because I don’t drink, or smoke, or swear.
I was there until they started closing just before 11. I had 3 Cokes, 2 packages of potato chips and
a small package of 2 cookies. When I got
back to my apartment I took my medicine and went to bed. I didn’t have any trouble getting to sleep, got
up once during the night and finally woke/got up at 7:10, feeling good!
I took some money out of the ATM and had breakfast at
Bunuelo Express. I bought a stepstool for
34,950 at Exito so the cleaning lady can reach the high places. I forgot to mention last week that Exito has
an aisle just for Halloween decorations and costumes for children. I stopped at Jhon’s office on the way back
and gave him his English word for the day – “rue”, with an example.
The exchange rate for Colombian Pesos to the Dollar has
really fallen. When I checked this
morning it was 1899.50.
I found a small lizard, caught him easily and put him
outside. I moved some Gente newspapers
from one location to another in the garage and found a large cockroach; soon to
be squashed.
My brother isn’t going to be able to come here in December,
most likely February or April of next year.
Now I’m having a new problem with Rosetta Stone. I believe I’m almost done with Level 1 but it
takes me to a screen “Explore all activities for Unit 1”. When I click on that it takes me to a screen
to login to my account. After I’ve done
that it takes me to a “Welcome to Rosetta Stone” screen – like I’ve never been
here before – where it notifies me “you don’t currently have online
services”. I understand that my eTotal
only lasted for 3 months but I don’t see how I can continue without enrolling in
their Extended Online Access for:
1 month - $10
3 months - $25
6 months - $45
9 months - $65
15 months - $99.
I’m not really interested in EOA, I just want to continue
studying Spanish. I sent them an email
requesting help.
The expected high temp today is supposed to be 80 degrees
with a 30% chance of rain so I decided to wear jeans and shoes today. It turned out to be manageable, even with all
the walking I did.
Lunch was a small hot dog, chips, and large Pepsi at Dogger
for 10mil.
On my way over to Dario’s I ran into Augusto. We decided to meet again for chess tomorrow
at 4pm.
At Dario’s we only played one game and I had black. Lately he’s been making a mistake in the
opening whereby he isn’t able to castle and protect his king. Same thing today but this time he made
another mistake on his 17th move and I was able to take his bishop
and he resigned.
Back at the apartment I left my chess set and went to Viva
mall where I had a vanilla soft serve cone at Burger King for 1,600 pesos. I went into Exito and bought another jar of
Juan Valdez
On the way home I ran into Jhon who showed me an English
bible his mother had given him. On the
cover it said “Placed by the Gideons” so you know what that meant.
Back at my apartment I bought the RunPee.com app for my iPad
for 99 cents.
Beatriz was supposed to come over tonight but now it’s 8:40
and I haven’t heard anything and I just consumed a kilo of strawberries by
myself. Burp!
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