Crashing into Christmas
Crashing Into Christmas: *POUND POUND POUND* On the morning of December 18 I woke up to a rather unusual sound. At exactly 6:00am there was a person banging at my house’s front door as hard and as urgently as they could. Having stayed up till 1:30am the previous night watching "The Company Men" from my downloads on Netflix...I flew out of bed very tired and confused as ever. I threw on a shirt, unzipped my mosquito net and felt the heat of the day rush onto my skin. I had no idea what I was about to open my door to. I unlocked my door and saw a woman quickly running to another house on campus. Once she saw me she started speaking VERY fast and I could not understand anything she said. With the Spanish I know, I can generally understand what is happening in an adult conversation, however I couldn’t understand a single word she said. Thankfully, one of my boys Leonel heard the urgency of what was happening downstairs and came to help me. Once she started speaking, I sa