Quick update

I have no idea how to do this as well as Laura does it.
Anyway, there were some interesting transformations. Over the weekend two people went from friends to family members. In five minutes we saw the weather go from a hot summer night (march here feels like summer to my northern conditioning) to monsoon in about five minutes as students ran screaming for cover and some guy in the apartment across from me (at least that's where he sounded like he was) screamed loudest of all; and finally, I went from healthy to really sick.
And then there are little moments of watching my own transformation in several different ways, like how I grow increasingly confident to go out and do things like shopping by myself, when it's scary to do in America, and how I am getting better at saying what I feel in order to deal with people. I want to hope I'm also becoming a better teacher. At least I am more and more aware of the ways I can improve.