well i guess its been another week? or maybe not. anyway it's too hot to be outside right now so i'll enjoy the ac for a few minutes. this week has been pretty nice..not as much rain. the waves have been too big somedays to surf and the other days humble me enough already. last wednesday we were in the grocery for class having to find ingredients to make dinner. i ran into an americal guy who turned out to own the kayaking company that our class took a trip with the first week. we talked for a while and i asked him for a job. he told me if i stay until november he'd give me a job guiding sea kayak trips so i told him i'd think about it. on thursday he came up to me on the street while i was walking and said he needed some help...so friday i jumped in a kayak and helped push the big outrigger canoes into the surf and onto the beach. it was probably the easiest 20 bucks i've ever made. i got paid to do the same thing i had paid to do the week prior. now that i think about it i'm not sure how happy i am about that. anyway picking up some extra cash is nice, especially for something i enjoy doing. so in case you were wondering soccer is kindof a big deal down here. everything but the restaurants and bars will close down during the games. watching the world cup games down here has been a lot of fun...but what's the deal with the czech republic? usa played really well but those czechs were outsdanding. anyway i think we can beat italy and ghana. sunday morning i woke up at six and went offshore fishing with three other guys for the morning. we only caught 2 fish but spending the morning on the water is always a good time...the views of the beach and land were worth the trip. my roommate and i have come to the conclusion that the school we are at is modeled after mtv's the real world. theres twenty something college aged kids from all over the united states living in one big house just off the beach. there are no tvs so we have to entertain ourselves somehow...which isn't that hard to do. but the drama has begun...three girls cried for like two days straight and now have left for home. almost every night someone comes home to thehouse way too drunk and instead of helping them, most of the kids just take pictures and laugh. and of course there are the hook-ups, which is just funny once everyone knows about it. anyway, we're going to start video taping the shenanigins for the memories...and blackmail. nobody down here likes george bush...they call him "hombre diablo" or devil-man. they talk about how stupid he is and thus we americans are. then i remind them that they don't even have an army and better watch who they're talking to... i think that fact along with me demanding they speak english has really improved their opinions of americans. well i guess that's all for now...this weekend the waves are supposed to get up to 26 feet tall on the face, so just pray for me that i won't show off too much. hope all is well with everyone.email me to let me know whats new. sick of beans and rice, rob