The white-faced capuchins expected to be fed crackers... or brains... either one.I was a little shocked by the zoo, it definitely isn't what I'm used to seeing! Besides the jaguar and harpy eagle, the exhibits are in varying states of disrepair and have an overall old look to them, just like most of the city. It was all native animals, and basically looks like they dropped cages down around parts of the existing jungle and called it good. The grounds are mostly a walk through the jungle, with lots of beautiful trees and plants all around.
Back to the monkeys... a man started to hit his mostly empty soda bottle against the wire, freaking out the monkeys, but when ice flew out and into the exhibit they grabbed it up ad coveted it and rubbed it in their hands like it was gold.
I started school on Monday! Hurray, I have friends! :D Technically I'm just following my host sister around until my public school starts next month, I don't even have a uniform and I'm not being graded. It's a private Oxford School and most of the classes are in English, some of the teachers don't even speak Spanish (and some of them don't speak English). I am taking a Spanish-learning class with another boy who doesn't speak Spanish who moved here with his family from Florida in January. So far it's all review, and I know that my Spanish is improving, because I can actually form a sentence or two without thinking super hard, and I understand more than half of what is said in normal conversation. Yaaaay...
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