Cow udders and chicken hearts

It was day two of classes today and I was in a new classroom already. My room is on the second story of the gym and you have to walk across the gym floor to get to my room. Over the summer they redid the gym floor but they did not quite finish. So yesterday the school informed me that I would have to move to a new class for a bit while they paint the gym floor. It was not too bad though pretty smooth going.

Tonight we went to dinner with a couple that has been here a long time Gerson and Betsy and Andrea. Gerson does not speak much English and Grant and Andrea do not speak Spanish and Betsy and I speak both so I was a little bit curious how dinner would go. It flowed pretty smoothly-- sometimes we just spoke English and occasionally Betsy would translate and sometimes we spoke Spanish then I or Betsy would translate. It just happened how it happened. The place they took us to was one of the nicer places in Santa Cruz. It had a salad bar and a bar with hot food except the meat. The meat was their speciality and the waiters came around with the meat on spear looking things right off the grill. They started our table off with some chorizo or sausage that was very good. Then some Argentine beef wrapped in bacon that was delicious. Then come something that looked a little weird and I heard what the waiter said it was so I didn't take any but Grant and Andrea tried it. It was cow udder! Grant said it was gross. I took his word on that. They also brought around the hump of a bull to eat. Grant liked that he said it had good flavor. Our waiter liked to tease if we didn't try something but they brought meat about every 5 minutes. Chicken hearts were amazing at the restaurant. I said I wanted some and they served me 10 hearts! We definitely didn't have any room for dessert.

Tomorrow is Mike's birthday so everyone is going to his apartment at 12 to serenade him with Happy Birthday and have pop and cake. I feel worn out but I don't want to miss this Bolivian tradition of serenading. Today I listened to Froggy radio from down here on the internet. It made me feel a little like I missed being at home. I know I miss all the people friend and family but today was the first time I felt like oh yeah it would be nice to hear music in English and listen to the radio in my little red car. We have adjusted very well so far. WGM really knows how to make it easier.