Stepping Out of the Boat

On Saturday, we decided to venture out to try to find some of the places we had heard about from other teachers here. We wanted to find the Acropolis, the mall that is nearest to us. It's on the same street as the MultiCentro, but farther south. So, it was very hot, and we set out to find the airconditioned mall. Above is a picture of the inside of the Acropolis. It has four floors of very expensive teenager-clothing stores. Neither John or I could imagine ever buying anything there, but it sure was nice to walk around and look at stuff in the airconditioning.

We found the food court on the third floor, and there, to our great surprise, we found Pizza Hut. We each got a personal pan pizza, breadsticks, and a drink for about $7 total, which we didn't think was too steep. In the Acropolis, there is also a TGI Friday's and an Outback Steakhouse. We plan on going there for a date someday to see a movie and have a nice meal out. We'll save that for when we're feeling the most homesick.



Here (to the right) is the outside of our apartment building. We were just coming back from the Acropolis, and a stop at the Multicentro to get some food. In order to get into our building, you have to unlock the gate John is standing by and then the glass door behind him. We feel pretty safe here - the iron gates and bars help.






This is the door to our apartment. Each apartment door has an iron gate in front of it. We bought a padlock for our iron gate, but it's too fat to fit through the holes it needs to fit through. Our actual door is wooden and has a dead bolt, a door knob lock, and a sliding lock for when we're inside. The stairs to the left lead right up to the roof - the light coming from up there is sunlight.