Vultures on tin roofs

Last night and the night before there have been these banging sounds on our roof at random hours, reallly loud. It is a tin roof so rain makes alot of nose but these were thuds, hardly the pitter patter of rain. Finally this morning i realized that it is vultures. When a dog dies around here the vultures set in and a dog died near our house a few days ago and vultures were landing on our roof en route to the carcass, which by the way smells bad rotting outside our house.

It is weird at the beginning of this internship I felt like it would be forever (5 weeks! I thought what an interminably long period of time) but with less than 1 week left it seems like there is not much time remaining at all. After only 4 weeks i can feel connected to a place, when I go out and about it is not uncommon to see someone from work or church excited to see me and say hi (after all I am not hard to spot in a crowd). With most of the internship done I feel as though I will be actually a little sad to move on with our travels, at the smae time excited to move on to new adventures and will be gratefull to settle down in Argentina for 4 months and not have to think about moving about.

Today at lunch I went to the corner little store to buy hot sauce cause my food didn't taste right without it. I also talked to this new lady at work who was telling me how she had been laid off from her bank job and how (even with her family here) if she hadn't not gotten this job she was going to go to the US to enter illegally. It feels like every single person i talk to has a relative in the US (someone told me that while talking to a class they asked how many people had relatives in the US and eveyr child rose their hand).