Espejos and English

So, I gave my English class a test.  They failed.  All of them by US standards.  And these are people who are teaching in the high school.  So, I decided to pass 6 of them to level 2.  The thing is, the test was easy, it's just that they are so used to being passed without learning anything, none of them even tried.  It was very frustrating, and I'm almost ready to just give up on them.

Espejo=mirror.

It seems as though mirrors are the one thing no volunteer has in their house.  Why?  They're not that expensive.  But, here's the rub, let's say you go into town to buy a mirror (it's not like you can buy them at your site), then you have to get it home.  The busses and not exactly conducive to transporting a mirror safely.  By some miracle, you get it home safely, you then have to find a way to hang it in your house.  Most likely you have cement walls, so you have to find someone to come put a nail in for you, since you don't have power tools.  It's just a hassle.  So, when we do come to places that have mirrors, you may be seeing yourself for the first time in a long time and you completely forgot that you even use a mirror.  You see yourself and think, "woah, hey there...who's that?  Haven't changed much, that's good"  Then you forget why you used to stand in front of a mirror and used one every day.  Until you see the mirror a few times a day for a few days in a row, and then you want one again.  I think I'm going to buy a mirror.

The video is a tour of my house.  You have to turn your volume up really loud to hear my voice.  In case you can’t hear, I’ll write what you’re seeing.  First, is the dining room/work area.  There’s my table and the ugly flower wall that is going to be covered up soon.  The window in that room would go to the house next to me, but it’s covered up on the other side.  Next is the kitchen.  You can see my stove and my blue tank that holds water that I bring in from the outside faucet.  The red bowls you see are what I wash my dishes in, the big one is for washing and the little one is for rinsing.  When I’m done, I throw the water out the back door.  Then you go into my bedroom and see my bed and then I open the back door and show you the “bathroom”.  The toilet doesn’t flush, so you have to through water down it.  To shower, I stand in that room and dump water on myself and just let it fall out between the tin wall and the floor and the dirt soaks up the water.