Como se dice, "idiots" en espanol?

The past few days have not exactly been full of stellar moments for the Coopers.

Let's start with Sunday shall we?

At breakfast we are informed that we will be having lunch with the rest of the fam down the street. (we live with an older couple... who's son, daughter in law, grandson and his wife a and their child, live down the street next to a small bar and resturant they own and run.) Fine. No problem... we like the family, and the two year old great grandaughter is really the only person we can carry on a continual conversation with. (a humiliating but true statement...)
So, noon rolls around and we head on over with Ines and have lunch... everything is fine, no big deal. When we have finished eating... we note that for some reason the courtyard area where we are has emptied of the entire fam. Ok. So, we start wondering if Ines and Carlos just left us there and didn't tell us because they thought we were enjoying ourselves so they left us alone. We weren't sure... there was also the possibility that they had all inexplicably gone to the house next door and not told us what was going one... there were also random tons of people going in and out of the house next door...

We sat pondering our next move... do we leave? do we stay? do we venture into the house next door? and why would we want to go nextdoor, we still can't really communicate... why would we stay if ines had left, and the rest of her family was wondering why the two mute pieces of white bread were just loitering...

So, we decide to get up and go... our ultimate was realized when we walked past the house next door and, sure enough, the whole fam was there, including carlos sitting on the porch (all he ever does.) He stands up to yell something to us... the Lord only knows what it was, he is the worst mumbler i've ever heard in my life... Im pretty sure even when we speak spanish well, we will not understand what's coming out of his mouth. We spur of the moment decide to pretend like we are just taking a little walk, and we'll be back... we weren't bombing out on the gathering... we just needed a short walk. We get back to the house... and awkardly walk in and sit in the living room,(as suggested to us by carlos...) and in the other sitting room, there's like 20 teenagers all looking at us like, who are these white chicks? and who invited them? I tried to talk to one of the girls, but she would have none of it... so we sat. Mute. As usual. Confused. As usual.
Then Ines comes putzing out of the kitchen looking surprised to see us inside. (don't ask me where we should have been located at this point...) and said something incomprehensible and left the house... not wanting to be left there anymore... we followed her like a couple of stray dogs back to the house, where she also looked suprised to see us. We quickly gathered our stuff and went to a cafe... to regroup and figure out what happened to us.
Later that night Ines went back over to the house, and left us a key to the house so we could do what we wanted and not go with... so we are unsure if our confusion at the family's house came of as an offense... or like we didn't want to be there.
We still have no idea what happened to us.

Then we slept through our alarm on monday and had 5 minutes to get ready to leave for class. AKA, no shower... which is the equivalent here of not showering for a week in the states. BAH! disgusting.

Today, we had a slight misunderstanding of the teachers that there would be no afternoon event at 2:30 if it was raining hard... so, shawna and i napped it up... and at 2:30 it was raining... so we continued napping.
In reality what was said was that the intended excursion would be cancelled, but we would do something else... so at 3 the house recieved a phone call that we were wanted at the school... Carlos (our papa) akwardly had to barge into our rooom while we were napping to hand me the phone, when i was informed by carlos (who works at the school, and i tutor for english) that the school was waiting, did we intend to join for the excursion today? My explanation was lost in translation (the english he speaks is equivalent to the spanish i speak..., but what was heard loud and clear a la carlos (papa) was that we were napping. Napping it up right through our excursion.

Let's just say we are ready for the idiotic minutes to diminish.