mucho descanso

saturday proved to be a very nice day of rest. oh, well, i guess i should share about the party first...

la fiesta de la escuela ... i was a bit hesitant about going, as i wrote about earlier, but it all turned out to be fine and fun. :-) about 15 or 20 minutes after arriving, Susanne and i cheered to a nice little cup of rum and coke. you can see where this is going... then we ate some food. there wasn't much food, but there was a lot of alcohol. this party wasn't unlike any other party i've been to. you mingle with the people you know. the teachers were on one side and all the students were on the other side. we spoke english to each other, they spoke spanish. *L*

the teachers were dancing with each other on the patio (it rained big time before the party so the grass was really wet) and finally one student broke the mold and joined in, attempting to dance with a teacher. he didn't dance well, but he had fun and made us all laugh. eventually the teachers made their way out to the grass with a couple of students and danced the night away.

food included chips, salsa, toquitos, tortillas, beans, and not much else. no meat. so this wasn't really intended to be dinner. didn't know that because my teacher made it sound like there would be lots of food. oh well. a few munchies, a rum and coke (it was really small, but made a big impact), a regular soda, and a little wine later ... i was dancing it up with a teacher to some spanish music, twirling wildly in the garden.

i tried really hard to get my teacher to dance with me, but he simply refused saying he didn't like to dance and didn't like the music. but when the party was almost over, i finally got him to twirl me around a tiny bit on the patio. :-)

Susanne and i walked home, both of us a little loopy, but we arrived safe and sound. finally went to sleep. woke up the next morning and ate breakfast with her. no one else came down. then i went back to bed and attempted to sleep more. she had class. but i wasn't so successful. i finally got up again around 11. i thought long and hard about what i wanted to do, and finally decided i wanted to try to find that hotel again. so after lunch i took off walking. well, lunch wasn't very filling, so i went to Cafe 2000 and listened to great american music and ate a brownie with ice cream. then found the hotel. had a lovely conversation with an Aruban guy who works there and showed me around. while there i decided i would go stay the week there. the company messed up with the reservation and put it through, so now it's "lose it or use it". well, it's a really nice place and i think i could have fun there relaxing in the sun, swimming in the heated pools, whatever.

after all that, i walked home and had dinner and went to bed. i didn't study at all. it was nice. but i also didn't speak very much spanish at all either. but at least i did what i wanted and enjoyed myself.