We've also had some fun off campus since the last time I posted here. We went up to this place called La Puerta del Diablo ("Devil's Door") which we've been to a few times now, but this was with the whole team. It's this place on top of a mountain that overlooks the city, where you can hike, buy food and drinks and even go ziplining over this small canyon. Jenna, Brandon and I did the zip-line, and we were laughing about how sketchy it seemed but we couldn't resist doing it.

We have a student named Leo who I met over spring break here, and he shared with me then how he writes and performs rap songs. When I came back here, one of the first things he shared with me was how his church was having a concert with a famous Puerta Rican Christian artist coming, and how he was going to be one of the opening acts. So Brandon came with me and getting there involved breaking one of our norms of not taking the sketchy gang-infested buses. We were traveling with Leo and he insisted on taking the bus rather than a cab cause it was cheaper. The buses here are really funny and I'm gonna go off on a tangent right now about them. They go just as fast or faster than the cars and they are really aggressive and will cut you off without thinking twice. They're also all painted with different crazy designs, a common one being Jesus on the cross, and random names or phrases like "The Bird." Then there's always someone hanging out the back door while it moves yelling and calling for people to get on and pay. And the funnest part is when you're behind one and it spews toxic death smoke all over you -- yeah the exhaust is a major problem. Anyways, we watched Leo rap with one of his buddies and it was pretty fun, though we obviously had no idea what he was rapping since it was in Spanish. (There's a picture with these 2 rappers above).