A week in the camp!

¡hola!
so we've now been here for app. a week. the weather is starting to get more sunny which means more hot. and let me tell you, when they say hot they mean it! a large part of the group got a sunburn, some more severe than others, but none where too bad, and that all happened on a cloudy day! I was glad i learned my lesson in Texas, never going outside in a exotic climate with out sunscreen, least of all when it's cloudy! lol
back to venezuela though. i love it! simple as that. once you get used to be yelled at when walking down the street (yeah for some reason the men down here thinks it's all right to yell what ever they think, so they do, and to be honest.. sometimes it gets a little boring cause they seem to be thinking the same. lol, but i think it's the same in spain, so it's cool, you get used to it and that's all you can do.. they yell after blond guys as well.. good fun great fun) and the total lack of control, then you really start to enjoy the country. i never know what time it is down here, i only know from my guesses and looking at the sun, but it's cool, that's how the venezuelans are. our teachers don't know what day it is, but really, who cares? We just have fun. learn spanish, enjoy ourselves and chill getting to know each other!
This past week we've had the beach volley tournament, had a barbeque party, gone to Valencia and a Spa place. Yesterday we were supposed to go trekking for a few hours up at a sorta near by (1 1/2 hours away) national park, but the government just changed the law, so we werent allowed to go in. as you may imagine this brought on some frustration, but as the great guides they are, our guides were able to take us to a real carribean-style beach, SUPER gorgeous. I am telling you, i could have stayed there for ever! Funniest thing happened out there as well. We were chilling, some in the water and some of us on the beach, when suddenly these two lizzards come up, around 1/2 a foot each, and a super pretty turqouise-blue-ish color. I went to tell Maria "oh, there's a lizzard right there by your head" as they were like two inches from her, when one of our spanish teachers walks in, and her shade scares the lizzard of. now, i never got to say more than "Oh, there's a lizza..." cause one of the lizzards tried to run over Maria's neck and into the woods. you should have seen her screaming and jumping around, poor lizzard almost got a heart attack. I don't know if you can imagine this, the jumping and the screaming, but being there and seeing that.. it was prizeless!!
Today we started with aerobics at 6.30 am (!) and spend 1-1.5 hours running around thinking we'd die cause our teacher is hard core. I am so amazed by the things she was able to do! Anywho, after almost killing ourselves we had the very interesting break fast - cornflakes and powder milk- that we eat every day. apparently our stomachs are not hard core enough for the real milk products yet. then we had 4 hours of spanish lessons, and today we got divided into two groups so we are now in advanced and beginners :) Then we went on to a kayaking talk through, as we will be practicing some safety tips and sailing a bit in the kayaks tomorrow. Or rather, we'll be doing so all day, going in to some caves, which i think we'll be awesome!
On friday we are leaving the camp at 5 am which means getting up at 4 (!) to go trek at another national park, or it is not certain yet, but our previously mentioned awesome guides are trying real hard to make it happen, as we were not able to go to the other place yesterday. if we get to go we will be trekking for 7-8 hours passing two mountain pass (bjergpas?!) and then entering a little slave village. the salves were placed there cause there is no way to get there except by boat or by an insane walk in the jungle. anywho they had this huge cacao plantation cause the slaves couldn't escape, and the the culture there's supposed to be super cool and different. I can't wait to go there. plus they'll have another bounty beach :b
I think that's it for now.. if i forgot something then I might tell later, I might not.. probably not cause I am so busy exploring, but let me know if there's a certain type of info you'd like :)
hasta la vista!