Arrrr, We Be After Some Booty!!

Yes, that´s right folks - there are pirates in our midst!! We`ll be sure to upload pictures of these one-eyed thugs soon.
All is well here in Granada. The city is beautiful and the people are incredibly warm and welcoming. April, Harneet, Kristine and I have language school each morning starting at 8. The lessons go until noon, at which point we break to go home for lunch. We return at 2 for an activity in the city. We`ve been to the central area of the city for the past two days and it is awesome. On our first day here, we stopped by a place called ¨Chocolate¨ and enjoyed tropical drinks (made with thrice-filtered water - I love touristy areas :) ) and Fantas while surrounded by fountains, beautiful architecture, and exotic flora. We visited the local supermarket which April compared to grocery store in NYC and stocked up on essentials like Pepsi and Gatorade. On the second day, the gang went to visit a local museum while I went to see an Opthamologo (sp?). It was a dollar´s taxi ride outside of the city in a private hospital. The place seemed clean enough, and they had a water cooler of triple-filtered water for the waiting patients to drink. We got there a bit early, but the doctor came in about 40 minutes late. He came in eating an ice cream cone, but! he must have had an awesome ICM teacher b/c he washed his hands before coming near my face :). His ophthalmoscope was out of juice, so he used a room lamp and special glasses to check ouy my eyes. It was difficult communicating with him, but with charades we got our points across. All in all, I must say we are damn lucky to have all of the amazing healthcare facilities we do in the States - it´s easy to take it for granted when you don´t know anythihng different.

Alas, my time on the computer is up. I hope wherever you are, you´re doing well. Hasta luego :)!