The Ending to Week 1

Hello Everyone!
 I would like to start out by saying that this post should be a little more organized since we are more rested!! We hope that you are all doing really well , and Rachel and I miss you very much!! We are just going to make a tag team effort to cover the last three days with you (Wed, Thurs, Fri). So here it goes!
 Wednesday morning we woke up at the crack of dawn to go to a English school. They were having their  final exam projects ,and we were asked to come watch and "judge" their English skills.  It was very interesting. We arrived at 7:15 in the morning and stayed until maybe 1:00pm. Who knew the word intermission does not exist in this place. It was very fun. Some of the students were required to give a demonstration speech where they cooked their favorite meal, and some  performed a drama with a group of other kids.  The kids were so so so sweet to us and their English was so good. They said that they had been practicing for months because they heard Bules were coming ( that is us). It was rather comical because their drama including music selection from the following artists; Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Selena Gomez, and High school musical.  We got a good laugh out of that. After it was finished  we had our photo session.WOWWOWOWOWOW. I don't think that we have ever smiled for that long or that much. Our faces were actually cramping . We think within  maybe 45 minutes the camera clicked maybe 500 times.  It was so hilarious.. and good for our self esteem. When we got back home we have already made their facebook profile picture.  Then the school administration took us out to eat to a really nice place where we had lobster, fish, tofu, and some other things.. Turns out Tofu is really popular here.  Ick!  Even when we were eating the school teachers were sneaking their phones out and sneaking pictures of us.. so cute.  Then we went to the mall and shopped. FUN!  We met another Bule.. he was from England.!  Cool accent.  We also had our first experience with public transportation and crossing the street. We got into this hippie looking van ( SO SKETCH haha), and  practiced our language skills  with a girl that just happened to be sitting in front of us.   Poor girl! She seemed to enjoy it though.  When we stopped to get out, we weren't really sure how to open the door to get out, but no worries because the nice motorcycle people  ( like 10 of them ) who followed us  took care of that . They really just wanted to take  us for a little spin, but we declined. Instead, we decided to play frogger while crossing the street. Enough said.  When we got home it was time for all the other families who just  arrived to come over for a party.  It was so fun! We really enjoyed spending time with I and L and there kids, and this new family with their 3 boys.  We played a lot of games ( video to follow). We stayed up really late and slept in the next morning. Thursday, all the kids came back over to our house and we just played games and hung out all day . That night we went to I and L's house for L birthday ! So fun! Thursday night we spent the night with our native friend. That was.....  full of interesting  moments and giggles (rachel and I ) that couldn't be contained. ( Sooo bad ).It was the first night we spent in a non western household. We woke up really early. ( cough rachels fault cough) We spent the morning cooking a traditional meal.  We took water from a well,washed dishes outside in buckets of water, and introduced mashed potatoes to our friend (Paula Deen style of course) all in one day. By 12pm we were Exhausted after cooking for three-ish hours.  We ate the lunch ( pictures to follow)  and now we are spending a few moments relaxing before we go to spend the evening in the Ruko (library). It is a big night for them there.  We chopped vegetables and ground them up with um.. I can't think of the word, but you use it in Chemistry and it is like a bowl and then a really heavy stone you crush stuff up with like from a long time ago.   Way fun!  We are having a great time, but we miss everyone a lot! We love you so much . We ask that you would be lifting up a family that just moved here .They are trying to find a house to stay in and it is proving to be very difficult!  Talk to you soon! LOVE YOU ALL