New Lock and 14 New Keys

We walked Joakim to school today for his first day.  We took our same old route down Shyris.  It was crazy to walk to school again.  I didn't think I'd be doing it again.  We were with him until all the introductions were over... Yonseili and I always get a kick out of watching Paty the director say the same thing every Monday.  It's great how she says the same things with the same enthusiasm every beginning of the week.  We always say she should just record herself and just smile and nod throughout, maybe even do a little bit of hand movements as flight attendants do before we take off... it's a funny thought.  We talked to Paty after she finished talking to the new three students, including Joakim.  One of them is a male from Holland and the other is a female from France who's parents-in-law are from Ecuador.

We could breathe again the second she said that our presentations can be about anything we'd like.  Yonseili immediately knew she wanted to talk about New Mexico and I still need to think about it, but I think I will talk about my experience abroad.  Paty told us that what really matters is that we give our presentation with enthusiasm and not stress about it.  They just want to see us talk Spanish.

We came back home and I accompanied Yonseili to the nearest key making place because she lost the keys and thinks she did so right outside the gate.  To be safe her host parents asked her to get a whole new lock for the gate and make about 8 keys for everyone.  After that I had to take a shower because I hadn't done so yet and then accompanied Adriana to the school to talk to Santiago.  Joakim had his orientation today so he got home at about 6pm.

Highlight of the day:  I would have to say getting the whole new lock was interesting, but walking to school was a lot cooler because we hadn't done so in such a long time, maybe once after Brian left.  Actually, the new lock thing caused Joakim to try other gates because, although we mentioned to him what had happened, he didn't know the lock change was done...so I will decide and say that the highlight of the day is getting the lock changed.