I feel like a haven’t gotten a lot of sleep this weekend…maybe because my cold has been eager to make its presence known, lest I forget, at night, I think I slept better last night than the night before, but perhaps not long enough.

Last night was Jesus’ birthday party. We had it at Javi’s house on the outskirts of town. Before we left at about 9:30, Gunita told Will and I that the front yard was home to some turkeys and chickens (which is a somewhat recent development, as there were none when we there for New Year’s Eve). I just didn’t realize how scary turkeys were! Javi came out to the street, basically to give us the warning of: If you’re loud, they’ll attack you! We walked the 20ish yards from the street to the house and they were like “GOBBLE GOBBLE!” They were huge ad so scary…Javi said one of them bit his dad’s friend the other day!

I was terrified from that point on and made the mistake of telling Will that. The whole night he made turkey noises and was like “they’re waiting for you to go out there!” Of course the bathroom was outside (though not an outhouse…it’s like a separate room). On my way out, Arturo was covering me but he went back inside and when I was ready to come back in, I was the only person out there! I opened the door, heard the turkeys and slammed it shut again!

I stood in the bathroom for like ten minutes, listening to the turkeys, or what I thought were the turkeys—it could have been Will, because Jesus came to rescue me and Will was with him. Jesus told me to come out and right before I did I heard this really obnoxious noise (which I know was Will!). Anyway, I screamed and freaked, used Jesus as a block and pushed his all the way though the front door! I didn’t go to the bathroom the rest of the evening…

I had a special class with Raúl today because he has an exam tomorrow, but before then we had cañas with Jesus and he said that the turkeys were killed this morning. And I was like, “WHAT? They couldn’t have been killed one day sooner, REALLY??” I don’t know, maybe I wouldn’t have been traumatized…

Xoxo,

Court