I signed up for the Tandem program with the school which
means you meet with another student at the school who is learning English and
you talk with one another for practice.
My Tandem partner is Jose Carlos.
He’s a Civil Engineer who wants to learn English for his career. He’s been
doing a lot of work for road construction and buildings, but he really enjoys
doing hydro-electric projects which his country really could take advantage of.
We’ve been meeting every day and this
will probably continue throughout my stay here.
Yesterday Sarah and I went to the one and only mall in the
city called Plaza Real. It’s on the
outskirts of the city. There are a number of stores in the mall and it looks
very similar to any other big city mall – large anchor stores, smaller boutique
stores, a food court and a movie theater (the only one in the city). In addition, there is a large home
improvement store and a huge supermarket where you can buy food, some clothing
items, some household items and I even saw a mattress! 
I was looking for things I couldn’t find in my more local
“supermercado” like plastic wrap to store food, matches to light the stove
(yup, it’s that kind of stove), and something other than canned tuna fish for
protein. The meat counter was very
interesting and I was able to get a couple of photos before they told me that
photos weren’t allowed. Can you guess
what is in these packages? 
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