I have the house to myself today, and I´m eating leftover cheese and crackers from a party my roommate had last night. Yesterday I taught two english classes, both individual classes. The first guy has a regular class and we´re supposed to go through this book, but we mostly just talked. I think that after you reach a certain point in learning a language, the best way to improve is just through conversation. I told him I studied philosophy and we talked about Camus and the connection between literature and philosophy. It was so nice! I can´t believe I get paid the same for that class as for babysitting all those bad kids last week. Then I had another similar class in the afternoon. Suddenly, I´m getting offered classes left and right!

I had a three-hour break between the classes, so I went to the mall across the street. I ran into a bunch of friends from church. We went to KFC (people here LOVE kfc. they call it "Kentucky" as in I ´m hungry for Kentucky!) and one of the girls used to work there so they gave us a free huge meal.

I´ve been watching CNN. I started watching this sunday afternoon segment focus on the middle east with this middle east expert. It´s really good. Sometimes the guy just editorializes. Today he had on middle east scholars and journalists. (that is, they study the middle east. they aren´t middle eastern) I like watching interviews where the interviewer knows what she´s talking about and has an opinion. And this guy totally does.
Also, I was watching the news before it. They were talking about Somalia, and how the options people have are living in the city and being bombed and attacked, or going to refugee camps where there is almost no food and terrible disease. Things are so bad there but they´re getting even worse. Half the population is dependent on foreign assistance for food. I don´t think foreign aid workers are allowed in, so the US isn´t sure where their money is going, maybe to the militant group al-shabaab, so they´re suspending millions of dollars of aid until they figure it out. Somalia has had five droughtst in a row, one in five children is severely malnurished, and a million people have been displaced because of their civil war. So, it´s lame that I need to see something on TV to care about it, but now I want to go to Somalia.

Jorge and I are going to Ayacucho this weekend. It´s a province like ten hours away. One of his classmates has a house there. I think it will be warmer there, or at least sunny.