A very good day!

Today has been an amazing day...one of my favorites since I've been in Xela...

First of all, I woke up this morning to the realization that I had my first dream in Spanish! I don't remember much about it except that I was using verbs correctly, and I was really excited about it.

Then, we walked to school, and the sun was actually shining! It was even warm! We haven't had weather that nice in WAY too long...I can't remember actually. Sure, we had more rain later, but that bit of sun was enough to light the entire day.

Then, my class today went really well. I was studying future tense and the uses of "por" and "para" and I was actually getting it. I was so overjoyed to be studying today and practicing my spanish, and I almost got teary-eyed because my teacher told me that one of the other teachers was noticing that I was speaking more these days! Little by little...

Later, we had a school salsa lesson. It was great to practice and learn a few more things. After that, I had the afternoon free so I ate at my favorite restaurant, leisurely did my homework, chatted with some friends and relaxed. Tonight, we went to eat at this great Indian place with amazing Licuados (fruit smoothies). It was such a neat time eating and chatting with my girls about relationships, personalities...you name it. Good stuff.

And finally, tonight I accomplished a major life goal: to go dancing at a real salsa club. La Panderria has free lessons on Wednesday nights, so a couple of girlfriends and I went. We did some group warmups and then the instructor asked me to dance. He was a GREAT leader, and we did some cool turns and spins and such and danced for awhile. It felt so great to not only be at a real salsa club, but also to be actually dancing not completely foolishly (i hope).

Day by day, I'm loving life in Xela more and more. I've had so many great opportunities and experiences here so far...once again, I'm very thankful.

I was thinking the other day about how wonderful it is to be sitting in my room, walking down the street or eating dinner and hearing people speaking Spanish all around. I will miss that very much.