Day of Rest and Homework

It's about 12:45 here, and i've been awake for about an hour. It's Sunday, the day I rest up and get my homework finished. I might take a walk too; the weather's fantastic right now. My knees are still recovering from walking at weird angles when we climbed the mountain, but the experience was worth any pain I endure as a result from it. Now to recap the past couple days:

Friday night we went to Juanca's apartment and played card games. I was very exhausted from 2 previous late nights, and turned in at 2. Maren, Bridgett, and Erin met the others at Cameron, a disco, for some dancing.

Yesterday, Saturday, I rested most of the day. We had the very good creamy soup and mashed potatoes for lunch. The potatoes had little bit of ham in them. They were fantastic! A common misconception about the Spanish cuisine is that it is all seafood. They do enjoy their seafood here, and it's very common especially around the coast, but the part about their cuisine they are most proud of is their pork. They take a lot of pride in their bacon, ham, sausage etc. It's not near as lean as in the US which gives it a lot of flavor. It also means it's not as good for you. But what the heck! I climbed a mountain on Friday!

Since it was el dia de San Valentin we went to a Floreria and bought our host mom a plant. We attached a card and set it on the kitchen counter. She came home just before we left to meet friends to go out and found the plant. She said "Muchas Gracias!" with a big smile on her face. I think we made her day.

We then met Andrew, Kathryn, Ginny, Sean, Bridgett, and Erin at Oxigeno, a very cheap but fun bar. Because it's cheap it fills up very quickly, so by 10 you couldn't move at all. We stayed there until almost midnight. We couldn't take the congestion any longer. Problem was the discos don't start to fill up til around 2, but we decided to head to Ivanhoe anyway. There was basically no one there so we decided to play a few rounds of darts. I won the first round, Andrew the second, and Sean the third. After 3 games, the disco started to fill up. We danced and ended up meeting a group who is studying english. One of the girls names was Sofia and I couldn't here what the other girl said her name was. We got their numbers so that we can meet up with them again. Their boyfriends were with them but I couldn't hear their names either over the loud music. We left around 3:30. The highlight of the past couple of days was definitely the look on our mom's face when she found the plant.