Thursday am

We were met at 11am by the woman who is in charge of housing and making sure we have everything correct in the houses in order to see if we were interested in another house or if we were happy staying in casa a y casa b. We went to Casa D to look at a 5 person house which would hold all of us and would allow us to just be together and give us time to get settled in instead of having to wait longer and live out of suitcases for two days. We chose casa d which has some pluses and some negatives. A major draw was the fact that we have better air conditioning and we have a real table and chairs instead of just plastic ones. One drawback is the fact that our desks are just these wire crates with a painted white board across the top and a green plastic lawn chair.
After we got our suitcases we decided we were starving and headed out looking for a restaurant. We had no idea what was around or where good food would be. Along the way we stopped and wandered around the school after we were let in by a guard! The school is huge and has an awesome open courtyard and it also has a stadium seated soccer field on the high school side of the school. At school the curriculum director directed us to the mall where we could find a place to eat. We tried to cut through a parking lot, but security guys told us we weren’t allowed to and needed to walk all around the giant hospital (nice and close if we get sick). We walked through the mall and ended up at a restaurant that advertized tacos and other food, but after receiving a menu we discovered it was only seafood. We talked about getting up and walking out, but couldn’t because people were looking at us and talking about us. Luckily, there was a little box on the back that had non seafood things on it. We could not figure out how we were supposed to tip the waiter or ask for the bill.
After lunch we asked a security guy how to get to Soriana which is like a grocery store that has everything in it such as pillows, sheets, towels, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, and school supplies. The problem with this is that whatever we buy we have to carry back and we had tons of things we were interested in having/needed in order to unpack our bags and move in.