The fuentes were beautiful. The water was so warm! There are rocks on the wall where the water trickles down and almost everyone rubbed their hands on the rocks and then rubbed the dirt on their face for facials! Qué rico! It was a great experience!
It looks like a giant quilt.
That is the Santa Maria volcano behind me.
Santa Maria otra vez.
When we got back, we ate dinner, chilled, went dancing! Friday, we were all kind of pooped. It was most of the students' last day so I think everyone felt kind of distracted. We went to Bake Shop, a delicious bakery here and bought bread, cookies, donuts- whatever. We came back and finished class. I asked my teacher if he would seriously correct my pronunciation next week, so I'll tell you guys if I end up regretting that. ;) I want my accent to be as authentic as possible, so we'll see if it helps!
After classes, we had the graduation ceremony for all the students leaving. Each student gave a little speech of thanks to their teacher and their family guatemalteca. So so sweet. I was right on the verge of crying, but I stayed strong! The graduation ceremony was carried out in the true style of Xela as it started POURING rain and we had to move inside and then it stopped and we moved back outside to eat and then it started again.
We went to the last dance class for Andrés and Mary, which was bittersweet! We all signed our names on the wall of the studio. Then salsa. Bachata. Me encanta! After class, we walked around the market for a bit, ate some french fries at Super Papas. We came back and had some Subway-rivaling sandwiches for dinner. The ambiente in the house was a little sad. We knew parts of our family were going to leave.
Even Mia knows.
We went out to a smoothie place and dancing again as one last ooh-rah with our amigos that are leaving.
What are we going to do without our Amberly?!
And what is El mundo en español like without "Nick Jonas" Schluder here to incessantly tease?
Mia laid on top of Mary's backpack in the living room before she left.
It's a sad day today. One of the Guatemalan students had to stop her classes and return home to her family because of some personal reasons and another one of the students just left to go home for the weekend. Another one is with her family this weekend. There was also family of Cyndi's visiting that left today too. We went from a house of twenty-one to a house of six. After we said goodbye to the Dayton kids, Sucely, Ángel, and I sat on the couch for a while, trying to keep it together after crying when we were telling everyone goodbye. Sucely asked, "¿Qué hacemos?" What do we do?
There's no doubt that our world will be a little different here, but I'm so grateful for all the people I met and the friendships I made! So grateful for all the amazing theological-Jesus-and-relationship conversations with Amberly. So grateful for the laughs I got from watching Nick react when people picked on him. Nathan, Dominik, Meghan. ¡Todos! I'm going to miss our Dayton kids like crazy!
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