10.02.2008

Good morning!

Ms. Linda, I apologize for my Spanglish. I will try to stick to English from here on out.

Last night Cayman ended up staying on campus with me because it got really dark really fast and she had this fiesta that was at some casita that she'd never been to. So I had someone to sit with at dinner. Yay for friends.

We woke up early this morning to go milk the cows with Geovanny's papa. He's so cute. We got up at 5:20 because last time we just missed the milking when we got there at 6:08. But when we got there at 5:30, he wasn't even there yet. So we went and got some rubber boots and came back. He was just putting the saddle on his horse and when I asked if we could help he was like yeah, but it'll be about 15 minutes. I don't start til 6. Whatever better early than missing it entirely. So we hung around the stables until he came back with the cows. There were two big ones and a teenage one. While he was getting the black and white one ready for milking, I petted the brown teenage one. Too bad it turned out to be a punk. I stopped petting it for like a second to turn around and say something to Cayman and it butted me with its head in my stomach. So I kind of kept petting it to appease it but I stood as far away from it as possible. Then I escaped and stood really close to Geovanny's dad. He had just finished cleaning up the udders and tying the tail in this rope hanging from the ceiling, and once he got the udders going he offered me the stool. So I took a seat and started yanking. Udders are gross and weird. Geovanny's dad said I was good, though. I mean I had it going with both hands for a little bit and was going at a pretty good pace, but my hands got really tired really fast. Cayman sat on the other side and it took us so long to get like a quarter of the bucket full. Then Geovanny's dad helped us out. He is ridiculously fast. The worst part was when I accidently squirted the hot milk on my hand. Ew. Geovanny's dad explained that if you don't get all of the milk out, it will turn into cheese and will mess up everything. So he like full-on massaged the udders to make sure it was all out. When we thanked him after the first one, he was like you don't want to stay for another? And I told him my hands were really tired and he laughed at me. I like him.

Then I took a shower in the public showers because they told us that the public showers have hot water. LIES! It was ICE cold.

It's time to Dean it up.

chadios.

peace love and udders.