I’d like to dedicate this to my Boyfriend Enrique

Okay, Enrique Iglesias. You win. I get it. You’re a stud and I am jealous of Anna Kournikova. Are you happy now?

As I sat with my host family watching some form of the Latin Grammy’s I was absolutely mesmerized by Enrique Iglesias. I suddenly completely understand how he is an International sensation. I couldn’t understand the lyrics, but I was definitely tapping my feet along with his songs. He had thousands, literally thousands of people in the audience eating out of the palm of his hand and I must confess, that, sitting in my couch at home I was quite taken with him as well. Plus he looks a lot better since he got that mole taken care of. Looks like I am going to like Latin Music after all. (Amendment Three hours later: I have just watched a series of really bad Latin Pop videos and am not sure if I am obsessed with them or if I hate them, but either way, I’m not sure that I like Latin pop, but there is still hope for the rest of Spanish Music)
Today was another perfect day. One of my family’s horses had a baby last night so I got to see the foal today. Cutest little thing I have seen in ages, wobbling around next to the river. My host cousin Wainner is a close second. Yesterday when I came home from Palmar he ran up to me and jumped into my arms to give me a hug and a kiss. He has the most active imagination of any 6 year old I have seen since I got here. He just disappears into his own world and plays by himself for hours. Sometimes he skips around the houses or hides in between the hanging lines of laundry, but if you ask him what he’s doing, he always says: Nothing. And for that I love him. Now, if I could just get him to go to class.
I sat in a hammock for a couple of hours and Diego let me copy a bunch of his CD’s so that I would have some new Music to listen to over the next year. I walked a couple of miles in the afternoon and took what was possibly, the best shower of my entire life. It was probably 95 degrees out when I got back from my walk. (That’s why it was a walk not a run.) The water in the shower was cold, but not too cold and I think I must have been in there for 15 minutes. It was wonderful, just absolutely sensational. I spent the rest of the afternoon watching entourage, napping, writing and sitting in the hammock. Which made me realize, since my graduation from college I have been concerned with only one thing:

Continuing to Live the Dream.
So far, so good.

I did have a bad moment today when I realized that Daylight Savings is almost over and then I realized that there is no daylight savings here, but it could have been a lot worse. So what if the sun goes up and down at 6 every day? I can probably use that kind of consistency in my life. Besides, if that’s my biggest concern at this moment in time, I think that everything is just fine. Take that Culture Shock Curve!
Pura Vida!