First Robbery

Today I was helping the kids from my curso (class) sell cakes to raise money, I'm not sure exactly what they were raising money for, I heard kids with cancer, but then I heard they are saving it...who knows.
It was about 6:00, still light out, and we were just about done selling the cakes and we were just standing around on the sidewalk, and the next thing I know, everyone sprints away and is screaming RUN RUN RUN! I had no clue what was going on because I was looking at the cars passing by, but someone told me once we were safe, that a motorcycle stopped, a guy hoped off the back, held his hand in his shirt like he had a gun, and robbed two kids from my class. He stole their cellphones. I was about 15 feet away from this. It really opened up my eyes about how dangerous it can be here and how even with 20 people, in broad daylight, people will still try to rob you/harm you. It was pretty scary. The worst part was that I had no clue what was going on. I quickly looked back the second everyone started running, but I was in such a daze that I don't even remember what I saw. It was insane.

After the little incident, we went to another exchange student's house and we just chilled and talked, in English, unfortunately. I feel like I am speaking way too much English still. I feel guilty, and I feel like I need to take advantage of my time here and speak as much Spanish as I possibly can. It has only been a week though and Spanish continues to get easier and easier, not necessarily easier to speak, but definitely easier to understand. Sometimes my host mom says things, thinking I won't understand it, but I do.

Today at school there was an English assembly where some kids summarized some books in English, so that was a lot nicer than having to sit in a boring class and try to do work. Today was also the first time I had a gym class. It was horrible and I had to play basketball, and I got in trouble 38930482 times for rolling my sweatpants up to my knees. The boys are allowed to wear shorts for gym, but I get in trouble for rolling my pants up a few inches. Oh equality.