This is Devon

Yeah.

So.... lots of new pictures on the photobucket.
lie is pretty good. Since our host students have been in finals, we have been tooling around the island, and doing other touristy stuff. We went yesterday on a bus tour of the island, and saw such nifty things as a chinese tomb, and tropical fish. We went swimming iwth the tropical fish in a coral reef! It was pretty cool. There r pictures of these things on photobucket.

Today, we went to the beach, and went sweiming, but there was no fishes this time. I got realy sunburnt. When I came home, my host famil was like "Red! red!" And they started lauging until they realized it hurt. I tried to ask for aloe, but htey didn't know the word, and my dictionary didn't have it. I finally did a google image search for aloe vera.

My host mother returned from the store with pieces of aloe about 4 feet long! I guess its some sort of tree. Also, you can eat it. We're having it for dinner tonight.

All in all on this trip so far I have eaten Goya, tongue, tripe, and (very soon) aloe.
Its odd to think of what might come next.

Tomorrow we are due to see the fish market, and some other things that don't sound partcularly thrilling to me, though I'm sure it will be a little bit fun, at least. I almost got heat ehaustion oday, but caught it in time to recover. Then we went down to the harvest festival in Kabira Village.
The festival had several religious activities, including this thing where a man balances a 30 foot pole on end on his stomach, and where a man lifts and carried a rock. They're like trials of verility or something. I'm not entirely sure, but it was pretty cool. The atmosphere was really country fair-esque, so I felt mostly at home, except for the humidity. I still kind of miss home, though.

Having a good time. Will mail post cards soon, I promise! But didn't manage today...

-- Devon