Wednesday 10/8/08

Today was not a normal morning of Spanish classes. Since it was our second to last class, we had to give our final oral presentations. I presented on the history of colones (the national $), devaluation of colones and dollarization. I felt like overall it went pretty well. After class and lunch some friends and I headed to the theater (Wednesday=half off day!) We watched Total Control, a movie I’d never heard of with Morgan Freeman and John Cusack. Before the movie we wandered throughout the mall and some bought ice cream at Pops (a big ice cream chain here, the equivalent of a Baskin Robbins). After the movie, we all headed downtown to catch our respective buses. My umbrella is officially shot and in desperate need of replacement, which means I got soaked from head to toe transferring buses (as I have a long trek between buses). Immediately when I got home Pamela was at the door and said “Ready to go get Dayana?” Apparently Pamela and Dayana (our cousin) had planned “McKenzie hang-out time” without informing me. This is where I daily learned patience. I was tired, hungry and absolutely soaked, but couldn’t let the girls down. Luckily I didn’t have any homework (as I’m not sure how far my patience would have stretched if homework were in the picture, as you know me and my nerdy study habits). We ate dinner, watched the last night of Latin American idol. Tomorrow night we find out if Maria Jose (the Costa Rican finalist) wins or Margarita (the Panamanian who she’s up against). The girls could tell I was tired and so they went out and sang karaoke while I fell asleep to the TV. Next thing I knew it was 8:30 and I had already been asleep for about an hour. I turned off the TV and went to bed way earlier than the rest of the family, who was still up singing and being loud in other ways as usual.