Today I thought some pictures would be nice. Tomorrow I'll do a reflection after one week (one week! only).

 This is Paula, and she is from Miami. Very very nice girl, she speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish and she loves to dance as only Latin girls can.

 This almost useless shot is of our street at night. I'll put up a better one with some daylight etc. when I get a chance.

 This is Eddie and Ellie. Eddie is from Detroit as I think I mentioned before. Ellie is from Boston. Both awesome people, blessed to have met them and be sharing this experience with them.

 This is Christine or Christina either way. She is also from Miami and very nice. I spent most of our first night out talking to her about family, life goals, experiences, interesting stuff all around. I've found that this program forces, or maybe allows is a better word, for all of us to be ourselves from the get go, letting go of some shyness or tentativeness and just getting to know each other very well very quickly. Or maybe it's that we can feel our time here is so limited and so precious that the normal highschool bullshit has fallen by the wayside. I know some of it must be the natural response of bonding quickly because we're all Americans doing this together. It's cool whatever it is.

Green Man! This is the green man. When he lights up you can cross the street. Unlike America, however, the cross traffic usually only has a flashing yellow warning light that means watch for pedestrians, not a red stop. So Peds do have right of way but it can be slightly, how you say, sketchy.