A Working Saturday

Today I decided to dedicate another day to mostly studying spanish. I started out inside, but I didn't want to spend my Saturday locked up inside. So, I went out front and found the pieces to a broken table and made something acceptable to put my computer on.

While it was nice to enjoy the day outside, the noise of the city kind of drove me nuts. Empty taxi's drove by and beeped their horns at people walking the street, letting them know that if they needed a ride, a taxi was coming. Other noises included a jack hammer across the street being used to remodel an old building, the vibrant bird population singing their songs to me, and the annoying horn like sound of mobile ice cream shops.

So, I put my headphones on and tried to tune the distractions out and enjoy the day.

I also decided to take a break and play with my camera, the results are me trying to be creative with black and white photos.

My roommate came outside looking for me and said, "what da hell?" As he was a bit confussed by my ad hoc desk and computer set-up. Chalk this one up to being a crazy Gringo.

Last night I went to one of the CLM's communities, ate pizza, and played the game Diplomacy.

The premise of the game is that it's the Spring of 1914 in Europe during WWI. You randomly select to be one of the waring countries, and have until 1917 to take as many capitols as you can. The winner is the country with the most total land. In addition, you have the ability to make (or break) treaties with anyone you choose.

I tried to get out of playing the game, since I'm a little competitive and felt I was at a disadvantage due to the fact that I was a novice playing against veterans.

That didn't fly. I was playing.

My American friend, Sean, said, "We Gringos have to stick together." Which was met by a funny response from the Peruvians, "Us 3rd world people have to stick together!"

Luckily, I selected France which starts off with a strong position. I made a few alliances here and there, and when it was all said and done, captured 10 capitols which was enough to win! Beginners luck they said...

Just wait until we play Risk...