Esta Semana

This week...

I have a tiny correction from the last post. Due to Kevin´s French-Spanish accent and my untrained ear, I thought the park we went to the other day was called La Selva Negra, but it is really La Selva Alegre which means happy park, not black forest like the cake. Jaja I was a little bummed to find this out because now my story is not that funny. This I learned in Fundamentos de Hoteleria- obviouslyI learn really important things in that class. :)

The rest of the week was pretty normal. Last night Kevin invited me to go to a concert at El Club International (El Inter). The concert was sponsored by Rotary and the theme was La Paz (Peace). The concert was outside by the pool area. It was beautiful as we walked in from the road above, they had lined the outside of the pool with about 400 white candles. Very cool. The atmosphere was really fun -we met up with a girl from Germany -jaja it took me awhile to figure out she was not from Peru but then I noticed her accent and felt a little stupid (her mom is peruana though and so she looks kind of peruvian). The music was...alright (local bands) and it was freezing, so after about two...three hours we decided it was time to leave and go to a disco instead. After spending quite some time getting a taxi (first at night they are really busy and then you have to make sure it´s once of the secure taxi-there are three brands that are safe- so sometimes it takes awhile) we hit up my house to ask my folks, Kevin´s house and then walked to Sui´s house so she could join us. Thursdays are gratis for the ladies and so when we got there and it was pretty much empty we were a little worried. Sui quickly assured us that ten o´clock was really early and sure enough by elevenish there was a good crowd. When the people started trickling in it kind of reminded me of middle school dances where everybody is chatting in their little groups and avoiding the dance floor. Finally one couple got up and started dancing and so we decided to be brave and go out there too and guess what...it worked! No time at all and there was hardly any space to move. We danced for a bit and then hit the karaoke room where we treated everyone to a little Shania Twain-man we were horrible... but it was a fun all the same. We called it a night at about one (pretty early) because I had to be at Kevin´s house at seven this morning and Sui had exams.

This morning I went with Kevin and some of his family out in El Campo to see El Ojo de Milagro (the eye of the miracle) which is a hole where water comes up from the ground, pretty neat. It was a fun little adventure (not as intense as the waterfalls) but I have some pretty cool pictures that I will post later. They had these pools that you could swim in too -I didn´t have my suit but Kev and his aunt or mom...I forget, hopped in. Jaja I have a video of them getting in...the water was nice and chilly and so pretty funny. More about the hike later, some of the exchange students are meeting at El Catedral and then were going for lunch. Chau chau -miss you all!