Tremors

Sunday April 11th 2010 11:49am



Thursday

After helping the family pack up, I loaded their baggage into our van, loaded up the family, then headed to pick up Marisela on our way to the airport. We spent the whole morning walking the family through the airport, getting them ready for their flight.

At one point, I had to help Mr. Joel with the translations on an ATM. I was surprised when I got there to find that the ATM was in English, and I was even more surprised that Joel still needed help.

Afterwards, we headed to the office, where I worked on a couple of translations for the rest of the day. The Thursday night TV was nothing new, but still good to see.


Friday
Friday, Marisela called me letting me know that she wasn't going in, because she felt ill. With her not going into the office, I decided not to go in either. I worked on a couple of translations, and then went for a walk in the afternoon.

I played some more EXILE, and then thought for a while about how "checked out" I am here. I didn't like that. I mean, without much work to do, I feel like the office has already checked me out, and I think I immediately got on board with that idea. I don't like how quickly I jumped on to being "checked out." I realized that I still have another month and a half here, and I need to do as much as I can in that time.

Friday evening, I went to Plaza and saw Shutter Island. I thought it was pretty good, but a little bit predictable. I liked it though it did make me laugh when the audience members would gasp at what was happening on screen.


Saturday
I woke up to feel the building moving, and immediately jumped out of bed into a doorway. It swayed for a couple of seconds, then swayed again. I assumed it was just the wind and that I was being crazy thinking about all of the earthquakes recently.

When I got to the school later, however, a couple of other people were talking about it too. Apparently there was some sort of a mini-quake in the city. Literally no damage was done, not even to the poorly constructed houses around the outside of the city, but it was still a bit of a weird occurance.

I talked with Luis Felipe for a while about how I had to leave at the end of May, and he was the first person who I was really able to have a good full conversation with about it. I am regretting not spending more time with him now, and I hope that I can remedy that over the next couple of months.

After coming home from the seminary, I slept for a while, and played a little bit more EXILE before dinner. Around 6:00, I entered into an online RISK game with my friends and former co-workers from camp, Brian and Ellen. It seemed really cool to me at the time to connect with them and play RISK, but as I type out how excited I was for an online RISK game, I feel rather nerdy.

It was a lot of fun though, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to win big time.