heyyy everyone! i know it's been a while, but believe it or not, i haven't had a very eventful week. i finished out the last weekend of break at the beach and just relaxing and enjoying being surprisingly not too sore after the race. it's actually getting closer to the end of the semester which i cannot even believe, but i've got quite a few papers and readings to do, so i've actually been doing quite a bit of school work in the last week or so. although zoe and i found some time to wander around a huge market downtown for a few hours over the weekend. their really is an overwhelming amount of stalls that people set up and sell anything and everything, from fruit to jewelry to every kind of souvenir you could imagine. you are supposed to haggle, which i am really terrible at, but it's definitely an experience to have. sorry nothing too exciting to report at the moment, but just know that all is well and i'm thinking of everyone back home.