I'm gross...

So I’m sitting in my room sweating my butt off the other night and I scratch my arm. I then notice that my skin pealed a little as if I had a sunburn. Well, since it was my shoulder and I can’t go topless unless I’m in my room I thought this was odd. I pealed/scratched some more and the entire top half of my arm started pealing. So I freaked out thinking I had turned into a leper! This continued for a couple of days and I finally asked a girl about it. It turns out if you sweat a ton and don’t shower daily (or every few days for that matter), you don’t get the old skin washed off-good stuff. Now that I have officially made sure anyone who reads this well never find me attractive, here’s what happened this week in my adventure:
Well I had my first language oral test on Saturday. I am officially an “Intermediate Mid”, which is as high of a score as anyone got as far as I know. It basically means I can speak in short/basic sentences and have basic conversations. To get to the next level, (which is the minimum I need to achieve before I am done with training in mid-September) I have to be able to speak in paragraphs/have full, thought out conversations instead of speaking like a little kid I had a group of about 14 American friends to my village Saturday afternoon for a movie day (The Anchorman on a lap top) at my school-pics included. We had a ton of watermelon, crappy Pringles knock offs, and some cocktails to celebrate being half way done with training and getting out first test over with. It was a really good time! The 4th volunteer from my group quit last week, so we are very slowly shrinking. The average group has about 30% leave at some point during the 2 years for whatever reason-so we have about 10 more that will leave (and yes, we have bets on people and days they’ll bail as sad as that is). This week I also “squatted” next to an old guy that managed to chain smoke 2 cigarettes while we did our business, had “milky rice” with tons of white and brown sugar for breakfast-actually really good, and watched a video of a “Kid Toy (celebration)” where a boy at age 9 gets circumcised and they have a big basically wedding reception for him-ouch. On a personal note, I will send anyone $100 U.S. to kick Rhett Bomar, former OU quarterback, in the crotch for me for ruining our season before it even began. I was really going to miss OU football while I’m here, but he has made sure I won’t miss much this year by taking $15k for a “summer job” at a car dealership in Norman. Which makes sense since our team could have won the national championship this year and he could have been set for life-way to think that one through buddy. We’ll still beat UT though…Boomer Sooner everyone!