ohh Teresa

"can i just tell you that every day your blog isn't updated i die a little bit inside?"
-Teresa Welsh

Well then...I don't update all the time because sometimes I think that all of my ramblings aren't funny to anyone besides me, or my family (example: see last post and it's comments). I am the girl who upon rereading wall posts that I write to other people I usually start laughing again (and of course I laughed the initial time I wrote them also). Anyways, Alex says that that's not allowed...whatever al pal, I'm not the one with an "alone" laugh. (oh the awesome things you find out about other people when you live in a 6 foot by 6 foot cubicle with them for a year.

So the other day I was thinking about how great Colombia is, and it was solidified by the radio choice when I got into a taxi at the Exito to go to my house. Check out this line up: Radiohead-Creep, I don't actually know the title or artist information on this one but it's the "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel," and the finale: Bob Marley-No Woman No Cry. I don't think it gets much better than that (haha okay, it can probably get a lot better than that, but not on the radio).

While at the Exito I found some calling cards that weren't charging me 1.00 a minute, so I finally talked to some family and friends after a month. But, after my intial call to Alex (thanks Al Pal for saying that receiving a call from me was making you jump up and down, "No really, I'm jumping right now" (and squealing, but I heard that on my own) the padre of mi casa said he needed the phone. He kept the phone for the next hour making no phone calls, and receiving no phone calls. I went back to him and said, are you still waiting for a call, or can I use the phone. He handed me the phone and said, "Five minutes! Five minutes!" I said, "Oh I haven't talked to my family in a long time, so I can call them tomorrow because I'll probably want to talk to them for more than five minutes." He kept thrusting the phone in my hands and saying, "FIVE MINUTES!" I was starting to get mad thinking, "you listen here sir, I have not talked to my family's real voices in over a month...they are in a different country, and I am here alone, all I want to do is say a gosh darn hello how are you en vivo, so you give me that phoen for at least SEVEN!" haha I didn't actually say that, but that's what I was thinking. Finally, I realized what his hang up was, he said "only five minutes, it's expensive!" To which I said, no...I have a calling card that goes through an 800 number, it's free. He still kept saying 5 minutes (because he doesn't trust my spanish, haha) But when cata explained it to him he said fine. No sir, I have not been making international phone calls off your landline. sheesh.