A Few Pics!

Good morning!

Well yesterday was my day off so I had a lot of internet time and then went grocery shopping. Back home I ate some lunch and then started to clean- I think it's safe to say there is a thick layer of dirt or grease on nearly every surface. Boys have always lived there and while it's STILL better than many other apartments we saw (believe it or not) it really needs some elbow grease. I realized I forgot paper towels so today will be one of many cleaning days. Our roommate Antonio came home and we were talking for a long time. I found out he works at the internet cafe I know the owner of, but when I asked the owner, Mixer, he said no Antonio worked for him. So I ask Antonio and he says "Yes no one call me Antonio, everyone call me Wash Wash." Huh?! haha so I ask him what he wants us to call him, and we settle on Wash Wash. Now I had already started calling him Tony in my head and to my friends, but I tried Wash Wash for a whole day. It doesn't work. From this day (and blog post) forward, our roommates are David the Irishman and Tony the Algerian, k? 

We had a nice long conversation about him being a practicing Muslim and what that entails. I told him I know a bunch about it but he explained anyway and told me how everyone always thinks it's strange how he prays and follows the religion. Then we talked about American politics, which is never fun over here. He is very intelligent though- how many of you could tell me the political parties of Algeria or their presidents from the 1960's? Yea, me neither. He's seriously a character, always joking! So Kate got home and we made pasta and then went out to King's Head with Sheila to stalk the "duo" (can you call it a band when it's two guys with guitars?) we had seen last night, they're really good! The duo started singing "I come from the land down under" and all of a sudden this huge group of people jumped up and were singing (screaming) and dancing. We were like, "Hmm, from Australia maybe?" haha Anyhow Sheila is in love with the guitarrist we call Bob the Builder but won't talk to him. Fun night :)

We're getting more and more excited about our visitors by the day, 2 weeks and 1 day now!! OK uploading pictures takes forever but I did a whole bunch on Kodak because all of the blogger programs were taking even longer. The link takes you to our Kodak album. Hopefully we'll learn how to get them on here, but until then, enjoy! (just copy and then paste)

http://kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=18ic034z.3w95dk1n&x=0&y=v1w9o&localeid_US

-Erin