the new friend

i made a new friend today, her name is Anita, and she's from Ecuador. She doesn't speak much English, but i can understand her when she does, and i can also understand her Spanish. i guess thats what i get from being around it nonstop all day in this house. she is having a hard time adjusting to America, and she doesn't understand why everyone here is so fat. i told her its because we're all lazy.
she was having trouble with her p.e. locker and she'd been hiding her stuff underneath the lockers, so i told her i would share mine with her. she's also in my drama class, which is funny because she doesn't understand anything that goes on in there, or any of her other classes. they put her in sociology, and i explained to her that i didnt understand sociology even when its spoken in my language. i told her that english will get easier with practice and hearing it all day, thats how i understood her, from hearing spanish all day for the last year. i told her i'd teach her as much as i knew, i taught her the word "wierd," today. its hard to explain the word "wierd," i said it meant crazy, and made a funny face, then she understood.
she told me about a girl she met who was a "very good person," then she made a motion to shake my hand and made this very deep voice to imitate her, and we started laughing because she said the girl sounded like a man. when she described what she looked like i knew who she was talking about and i laughed because i knew who she was, and i don't like her very much.

nick has tried to talk to her in drama class, and she remembers who he is but he can't understand her so its hard for her to talk to him, she described him as "pequeno nino," which is accurate. she also said everyone here has the same name and same face, meaning we all look the same, and she doesnt remember anyone's name.



so as of today, a foreign exchange student from Ecuador, shares a p.e. locker with me, and is my only friend at school.