"¿Cristi que es eso?" pokeinthenose...

so i got my nose pierced on monday. it was really exciting, i took the bus with three of my friends (Elizabeth and Kelly whom I live with nd Carmela who is at Calle Real with me) to metro centro, a huge mall, and... i´m so excited about it. and it didn´t hurt, like a prick and then nothing and then since a little sore. and i have never had so many compliments about how good my nose looks!

i suppose maybe there is a why question here... why? some is just whimsical, some i i want el salvador to have left a physical mark on me, something i can see and touch and remember the people here (those i live with and the salvadorans). i´ll come back and everything will be the same and everything will be different and i´ll need something to hold on to. oh man...i have three weeks of classes left, 6 times in calle real with my kids, one week after and then... how did it go so fast... but to be slightly less serious, all this thought is a putting into words of something that was kind of there but the main reason: i just wanted to :D

i wondered what my class would say to me if they would notice. and yes they did. a couple of them smiled and touched their own nose and then Roxana, who´s 14 and...how to describe Roxana, outspoken maybe? bossy? blunt? and completely wonderful tells me. "Cristi (i spell my name this way cause that´s how the say it...) Cristi, no nos pidió permesion de hacer eso..." (you didn´t ask us permission to do that!)... no i didn´t. so i opened my eyes wide and said no, you´re right. raise your hand if i have permission to have this... and they all raised their hands including Roxana, who immediately then siad so no you don´t have my permission. so i put my fingers around and said oh man well i guess i have to take it out then...my thumb in my nose. and she laughs and yells "mentira mentira me gusta!" (lie! lie! i like it) and we laughed. it´s nice coming back... it was two weeks today since i had been in calle real since i was in the countryside for semana santa (holy week) and today felt like the best day of my life... to come back and just tease and play and be with my kids. they, after this suggested i get my eyebrow pierced or my lip (both top and bottom were mentioned) and the cartilage in my ear...lol!

class just went so well this morning. we are doing emtotions so we cry "i am sad" laugh "i am happy" yell "i am angry" ... and for "I am scared," i say it and they all just scream. then we drew times we had felt happy and sad and scared and angry and then class was over...and i went down stairs and read stories with the 3 and 4 year olds. i turn into a sifa and this time and as many kids as possible, alberto his brother behil, susan (roxana y bea´s little sister) hasel pamela jefferson... sit on out as close to on my as possible...and then at least three of them during the story, behil and alberto and i forget who elso, poked me hard in the nose and said what is this, not sure if this change in me was ok. i told thm and we talked a little and they said it was ok ... but man that hurt mynose!

and then i went and hung out in william and marina and ahsley´s house and jsut chatted and was so happy to be back i almost cried.

more coming tomorrow about campo and holy week :) probably tomorrow!
love