There are monkeys here!!! They are black with white faces and have long tails just like most monkeys. They live right here at La Mariposa. That means the butterfly in Spanish. Every thing here is green and colorful. Actually now that I look around it is mostly just green and brown. But it is really nice here. Pretty much the opposite of most days in Texas. If you are reading this than you probably live in Texas and it is probably brown and hot and dry there. Here it is wet. Also there is this weird stuff that the natives call rain. I think it is pretty cool that this stuff just falls from the sky. OH YEA I almost forgot. You can drink the odd fluid and it tastes like water!!!  The place we are staying at is called La Escuela de la Mariposa. They have chickens and turkeys and really colorful birds. Every morning we get up for breakfast at 7:15 then at 8:00 we go to our grammar class which goes till 10:00. We have a 20 minute break then we go to our conversation class from 10:20 to 12:00. In all it is four hours of Spanish a day. The food is also really good here. It is mostly rice and beans but occasionally they will have some sort of meat. Those are the really special days.