Friday, July 07, 2006

last day in xela

well, this is my last day in xela, and it hasn´t been great. i had a good time with the girls this morning, even though ¨heads up seven up¨was a complete disaster, but i was sad to leave them. also, basically everyone i´ve been hanging out with has gone on the big school trip to copan, so i´m pretty lonely. kirsten, sonja, josta, and amelia all went, and i would have gone except for that my flight is sunday morning at 8:30 and at that point the group will still be in copan, which is a sort of long bus ride from the capital. had i known sooner, i could have changed my flight to monday, but i didn't, so now i'm just sort of hanging around here by myself.


i'm also feeling a little miffed at ica because every friday they give diplomas to the students who will not be returning for another week. i sort of expected to get one after last week, because i took classes and was not going to be taking another week of them, but i didn't, so then i thought maybe i'd get something today, since it's actually the end of my time here, but they just gave out diplomas and i did not get one. it really doesn't make that much difference, it's just a piece of paper and there are way more important things in the world to worry about, but i like to have closure in things and i feel like i've worked a lot and maybe deserve a little piece of paper, even if it just said "you volunteered". ok, well, now that i've got that out of my system, i can move on to something else.

last night several of us went out to celebrate our last night all together. kirsten and i chose a restaurant out of the lonely planet book called "restaurante las calas", and we got a group together to go to dinner. an hour after we ordered, our food finally arrived, and it really wasn't that good. i ordered spaghetti pomodoro, which claimed to have spinach and basil and tomato sauce and something else i can't remember, but it did not. it was just spaghetti and regular sauce. it tasted fine, but it wasn't anything to write home about (even though i just did). no one was terribly satisfied with the meal, and it took way longer than it should have. partway through, amelia and her cousin's friend hugo met up with us, and the two of them, kirsten, dulce, and i decided to go out dancing. sonja, josta, and molly (who used to be a resident minister at usf) went to go sleep, but kirsten and amelia decided that since they had to leave for copan at 4 am, they might as well stay up. we went to kokoloko's until 1, when it closed, and then we went to another discoteca, hektisch, for like 45 minutes and then it closed, and then we went to an "after party" that was someone's house that had been set up like a bar and hung out there eating spicy peanuts with lime (which i actually liked a lot) until 3 or so. it was fun, and kirsten and hugo really hit it off and are going to dinner together on monday night, but now i'm really tired because i only slept for 4 hours. all in all, it was a good last hurrah.

now i'm going to xela pages to upload some photos, but not until it stops raining. also, i want a baked potato with sour cream and cheese and butter but i don't think they have that here.

Posted by Sarah @ 3:15 PM