School, School, School!!!!!!!
I fell asleep at about 9:00 at local time and woke up around 6:00 in the morning. I had no problem waking up like I was expecting to. This gives me hope that I will be able to get on local time as quickly as possible.
We were not going to get picked up until 8:00 and we didn't want to sit around in the apartment for the next two hours, so we decided to go outside and see what there was to be seen. The only problem was that we didn't have any key to get in on we got out of the apartment, so we decided to wander the streets and meet up with her at 8:00 in the morning when she came to pick us up.
I quick note needs to be said, I think our host mother is a real-estate mogul. She has her own apartment, the apartment we are staying in with her brother and mother and she mentions that she owns and rents another apartment a few miles away.
Anyway, we wander around the the streets for a while, realizing that there are really no sidewalks anywhere in the immediate vicinity. I don't know if they just never thought about putting them in, or if they actually did put them in, and then the store fronts expanded and set up patios, additional walls and motor-scooter parking lots where they once were. As a result, going anywhere in the local area requires you to fight for space with the motor traffic. Not that they don't share the road with you, but they certainly don't treat you with any special love either. As we walked along the way, we found a local temple that we took a couple of pictures of, the school of our host mother, and thousands of little food stands that seem to be set up to provide people with breakfasts and meals to take to work for lunch.
As it continued to warm up, we went to a nice little coffee shop and got some iced coffee before we headed back to the apartment to meet our host mother.
When we got back to the apartment we met the brother and he let us into the apartment where Tiffany, our host mother, met us a few minutes later.
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