My Birthday Weekend

Alright, so my birthday was on Friday and I do not have classes on Fridays. It´s awesome how that works out. In the morning Brigitte, a friend from Central, and I went to the Huerta de Rasillo. It is a place for people with physical disabilities. We set up our Service Learning times, and hung out with the people for awhile. They were celebrating the festival in Cadiz. This festival is crazy. It is a week long, and people dress up in costumes. Pretty much is a massive costume party. Later that night, I got a call from one of my friends saying that they were outside my apartment with a present for me. I was thinking the worst, so I put some running shoes on just in case. I got down there and they made me a huge chocolate cake!! haha. (It´s half-gone already!!) This is pretty much the only sugar that I get here, unless I have hot-chocolate. Then a few of us went out for ice cream and then went salsa dancing. Our salsa dancing is stand right next to a good dancing couple and try and copy what they do. BUT they do it so fast that I lose track of where the arms and everything are supposed to go. If you are lucky, you will be asked to dance by the instructor, and he can make you look like you know what you are doing. It´s amazing!! haha.

The rest of the weekend was a blur. On Saturday, it was so hott!! (PS I am tanner already. Yes be jealous) I sat in the sun for four hours in the morning, and watched the Step practice of the group from church. The combination of a lot of sun and Spanish drained me. I took a three hour nap, then slept for 10hrs that night!!