A weekend of slumber

Well this weekend was one spent in Quito again. I am quit sick of packing overnight bags, over stuffing my backpack, having to lug it around, and then unpacking usually wet, dirty clothes. So, because of this, I've been staying home.

Friday after school I went to lunch at this amazing pizza place with Willow, Anne, and Lauren, and proceeded to spend the rest of the weekend with them. After pizza we of course went and got some ice cream, nothing better than chocolate and peanut butter. Then we got our toes done, mine are now hunter safety orange, I love it! We went and bought some more movies, I got the Avengers, Lincoln, and The Princess and the Frog. Ready to watch them with me Ben? I hope so. We also registered for classes for the fall at SNC and we all got what we wanted! As we should, being seniors and all. The night was spent eating the 2 packages of oreos and popcorn we bought on our daily stop at Supermaxi earlier and watching the ever great movies Bridesmaids and Crazy Stupid Love. Then it was bedtime.

In the morning we ate a delicious simple breakfast left out by my host mom, stopped at our favorite store to replace my broken sunglasses and a "lost" belt ($10 total), then headed off to meet some friends and drive to Papallacta hot springs. On the way there DJ Willster filled the car with American music and voices belting, something I miss a lot here since I have to ride the bus all the time. Once we arrived we found a hot springs and soaked in the naturally heated water b

y the volcano and hid from the cold mountain air. After playing some games with the super cold bath and super cold bath we took some time to talk and realize that the water we were sitting in was filled with floating hair and dead skin from other people. So the best bet was not to look or think about this "clean" water. After soaking for a few hours we headed back to Quito and stopped at a pizza place to eat. The girls (7 of us) must have been super hungry because the room was filled with constant laughter because everything seemed funny. We ordered 2 huge pizzas and 2 huge containers of Sprite and went at it. Then since the girls had to leave a bunch of stuff at my house to have lighter bags for the day trip we all went back to my house, decided that it was already late and that we still had movies to watch so everyone again spent the night in my mansion. Or so I've been told. Since my host sister decided to hog the TV all night we just ate the rest of our snacks and talked. In the morning we ate another great breakfast and then finally got to watch the movie we wanted and then it was time to go home and get some homework done.

As this week closes and the next begins we realized that we have 3 weeks of classes left and one week of finals and then we are out of here. I'm extremely excited and extremely scared and I anticipate these emotions both to rise to the extreme but every day I've reminded myself to take it one day at a time. Tomorrow marks the 100th day of living here, hard to believe that. And it also marks the one month count down. As the days drag and speed on I realize that sometime in the future I'll have to come back.