August 24th 2009
Today I woke up and then Patty and I left to walk to the train station (and that’s about 10min away from their house!!). I’m going to have to take that EVERYDAY to school, but she took me downtown today and showed me around MANY places! We stopped to eat at a restaurant she likes and it had Mexican food and American food. One of her friends met up with us there. There were old guys playing dominos and I guess that’s popular for them to do there, and it was funny because at one point, an old man stood up over there and was mad about something, probably because another old guy cheated, it was funny. After we were done eating, then we started to really go through the city. We went inside a REALLY old and nice Catholic church, in a library that used to be a church AGES ago. She showed me around the stores and a place that’s kinda like a HUGE flea market. Throughout our walk through the city, there will be MANY people coming up to you trying to sell you something (that most likely was stolen), but all you have to do is ignore them or say something like “No Gracias or No Tengo Dinero”. I even saw one the street MANY people one the ground or something needing money. I felt so bad for them, but I was told that most of them are there ONLY to make money and aren’t really homeless or filthy poor. I saw this elderly lady on the ground and I just felt SO bad for her! I kinda felt like at least giving her a coin, but I didn’t. And at one point I saw these children on the ground and one of them sleeping, but people will ask their friends to borrow their kids so it can seem like their poor. We got on the buses and those things are CROWDED! I didn’t like the bus experience, because not only did I have to stand up like many others, but I was like so close to many people. I didn’t like riding the bus AT ALL!! **KEEP READING MY BLOG FOR MORE UPDATES!!
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