Thursday
6/30
That night
Deivy was talking about how he had to go somewhere and asked me if I wanted to
go with him, so sure why not, the last couple days here, I’d like to spend more
time with him. We ended up going to a
little religious group somewhere in town.
It was all teenagers and it was kind of like just a community gathering
type thing so that the kids could be involved with each other. We played all sorts of really funny games,
one involved having two lines, the boys and the girls. The first person in each
line was the gallina and the people holding on behind them (like a train) were
the pollitos! Each gallina had to
protect their pollitos and at the same time try to get the pollitos from the
opposite line to let go. It was pretty
crazy but a lot of fun, they were all very nice and understanding of our
language barrier. They all had fun
trying their hands at English, some were better than other hahah.
Friday 7/1
Jenga.
Saturday
7/2:
Basically
everyone already sold their phones back and the plan for today was kind of uncertain
to begin with. A bunch of people were
supposed to go into San Jose to get all those last minute gifts (because you
know we procrastinated) but I wasn’t originally part of the plan until I
realized no matter what I really needed to go shopping. So I went out looking for them at the time
they said they would be there and no one was around. The school was closed because it’s a Saturday
so I walked around town and to all the bus stops and then decided they had
already gone or decided not to go and I was heading back home. On my way home one of the girls was waiting
outside the institute. We waited a
little while but no one else showed up so we decided that we were going to
brave the city by ourselves. It was much
better than I thought it would be, we didn’t really get yelled at by anyone and
its strange the way you adapt to a culture… Once you lose that look of
confusion (even though you still have absolutely no idea where you’re going)
you blend in, kind of. Granted we are
clearly American but the fact that we look confident and speak Spanish prevents
all of the creepy Ticos from telling you how much they love you. We couldn’t find the market we were looking
for but we found a different one that worked out just as well. We got back to San Joaquin around 2pm and
then for the rest of the day I packed and hung out with Deivy. The whole time I was packing he was just
sitting in my room, almost like he was afraid to let me out of his sight
because I might disappear. We stayed up
really late in my room just laying around, listening to music, talking,
watching videos, until it was really late and we were forced to go to bed
because we were falling asleep. L
