Sunday 11/2/08

This morning I woke up and began packing for my upcoming adventure. Tomorrow morning I am jumping on a bus and making my way northeast to the small rural town of La Virgen to Sarapiqui to help teach English for the next 3.5 weeks. I’ll technically still be in school myself as I have plenty of assigned reading and 3 papers to write during my internship. After packing and organizing my room we had a nice family breakfast of gallo pinto, eggs, sausage and bread (much more than our usual breakfast of Corn Flakes or eggs and bread). We decided that since I’ll be gone for Pamela’s birthday that we’d have a girl’s day and take her shopping for her birthday. While Mami and Papi did some errands, Pamela and I got ready for shopping. Papi was our chauffer and dropped us off downtown. We shopped ‘til we dropped. We stopped for lunch at Taco Bell (unfortunately my family loves Taco Bell and frankly it makes me want to vomit) and continued to shop all afternoon. I had my family cracking up as I would overexagerrate the proper way to cross a busy San Jose street. We finally made our way home and everyone took an afternoon siesta except me. I spent my afternoon getting ready for my trip tomorrow and making a phone call to a certain novio of mine to wish him a “Feliz Cumpleaños” since I’ll be gone on the 11th. We had a wonderful last family dinner together full of laughter…and more laughter. It was sad knowing that I would be leaving them for 3.5 weeks, but also a great time to reflect back on the last 2+ months we’ve had together. After dinner we all got a chance to drive the moped up and down the street. I had never driven one before, but Papi was very nice and let me give it a try. I said my goodbyes and goodnights and had a hard time falling asleep as my mind was filled with excitement of what was to come and sadness of what I was leaving behind.