Singing, Dancing, Music, and Water!

Hello all!
Well im still in the nice little town of Sucre...and now carnival is in full swing! Meaning more people marching in the street playing music, singing, and dancing; and of course much much more water. The streets are lined with ladies and kids selling grocery bags filled with balloons and no one is safe. Usually I end up getting cause i´m good at dodging them, which makes them more determined, and there nothing you can really do when EVERY one has something to hit you with. One time there was about 8 boys all with balloons and I dodged about 4 of them, than one hit me, bounced off and didnt break... so I pointed at them and laughed...Ha ha! Which resulted in me being pelted by all of them at once. When you leave the hotel room it may as well be pouring out since you get that wet.
They start young too, as soon as they can walk and carry a water gun, they do. Some of the little kids even have packs on there backs connected to their guns. The people marching in the street get it the worse, their just target practice. However the people marching also carry bags of balloons to throw as well.
I´m here for another week more....Actually I have to stay because my Spanish school is closed for the hoildays until wednesday and i missed class on friday since I am nursing the after affects of eatting undercooked chicken a few days before. I have no way of paying them,
until their open, and extra lesson´s can never be a bad thing.
I have to give to people learning second languages; not easy. I´m learning english grammer while i´m at it, since you have to compare sentence structure between the two languages. My spanish teacher said he never learnt spanish grammer until he took english lessons, and I´m now learning English grammer while taking Spanish lessons. I think the hardest part is gaining the confidence to actually try talking with people in their own native lanuage.
Well, I should leave the safety of this place to get more wet....yes more wet....I´m still wet from the walk here...=)