Update time!

So I know I haven't written in a while. Sorry about that. We've been busy with auditions for the shows the last two days. We had our first round yesterday, and it lasted from 6pm-10pm. We were very tired. We stayed up late talking about who we liked, and who would do well in what part. Today we finished auditions. We we trying to have the cast list done by 5pm, but auditons went until 5:10. We had our fisrt rehearsal tonight. Everybody watched the movie, and jared and I tried to figure out the cast. All of our notes from yesterday were on the computer, so we were only able to cast the 4 leads. We double cast them because they were all so good. I think that our leads are really going to make the show! 2 of the girls gave me a hug! It was neat! Jared then taught them the music to the last song. At first it was a little scary sounding, but by the end it was great!!! This show is going to rock! We're still waiting for the scripts though....

On Sunday we finally adventured into the city on our own. One of the students and his friend met us at this restaurant across the street. We ate and drank and had a good time. We then walked a few blocks to another bar. They had "videoke." Basically it's the same as karaoke, but it scores you somehow. We couldn't figure out how. I got the best score out of the group. Jared's cousin Ched, and our student Darwin disappeared for a while, and brought back some exotic BBQ. They handed me an egg, and Jared told me it was a hard boiled egg. So I cracked it, and this nasty black stuff started oozing out. I figured out that it was this "delicacy" called balut. It's basically a hard boild fertilized egg. So nasty. They then wanted me to try chicken feet, but they looked creepy, so I didn't. I did try chicken intestine though. It wasn't to bad. I don't think I'll eat it again though. Anyways, we each sang 2 songs. Well, technically I sang three and a half because Jared kept bailing out on his songs. We then rode one of the motorcycle taxi things back home. It was fun!!

I will post more pictures soon!!! I promise!!

Another Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSy0p4G0g

Bugs, rats and fun!

So last night we went to the grocery store. Jared's Grandpa is going to be out of town for 10 days, so we wanted to stock up before he left. We got lots of soda, so juice, chips, oreos and pasta. When we got back, there was a gigantic devil bug on the screen door. Jared and I were both to scared to get close to it, so we waited until someone opened the door to tell us dinner was ready. Before that, Jared tried to make the thing fly away by throwing stuff at it. Nothing worked. Luckily it left us alone. This morning we work up and realized that a rat ate through the cords to our DVD player. How annoying.

Yesterday I taught some of the dance group the dance to "We're all in this together." They learned it really fast! When we went to the gym today at 1:30, they were practicing on their own! We were so happy! We also had the lights in the back taken down, so that we can rehang them. We will be doing that tomorrow. Tomorrow, we are also teaching the song that will be used for auditions! Yay! As of right now, we have 55 people signed up to audition. Very excited about that!

Here are some more videos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZgueyIhU34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83uztxVHdWA

Campus Tour part 2!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZNm1bPefw

Goat tastes like Teriyaki beef jerkey!

So exciting!!! We got the rights to High School Musical this morning!! We've been spending afternoons preparing in the gym. On Friday we will be rehanging the lights because someone hung them all in the back. What a waste!! Today we are meeting with the students to get people to sign up for the show. Yesterday we got invited to be judges for the national YMCA academic olympics! How cool is that? I also tried goat meat for the first time. It was yummy! It tastes like teriyaki beef jerkey! I also tried Brandy. Didn't like that so much. Well, I gotta go, I'll post more pics soon!

Some video

Here are two of the videos that I've taken. They take forever to put on the web here, so I will put the rest up ASAP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIfagNRNONw

MONKEY!!

Yesterday we went to this place on a river that has a batcave where thousands of bats all fly out at the same time to start hunting. Jared's uncle Bert took us. We took a boat to this little island below the cave to watch the bats leave the cave. We were still in the boat when they flew out. It was so neat!! For about 5 minutes bats just kept streaming out of the cave. When we got to the little island, we stayed there for about 15 minutes. We saw a monkey way above us in the trees! It was very exciting. When we got back to shore, his uncle showed me a monkey that's someone's pet! That was even more exciting! I wish I could have a monkey for a pet. We went out for drinks later that night with Bert, but by that time my stomach was really hurting. I had a sprite, and then I had to go get sick in the bathroom. It was gross. The toilet wouldn't flush, and they had no running water to wash off. At least I had my anti-bacterial stuff. I was still feeling gross today, so we didn't do anything. We were supposed to go kayaking and caveing. Maybe tomorrow.