La ultima

This was my last weekend. I cannot even believe that I'm writing that right now. It was the last. Trust me though, it wasn't the least.

On Friday, I went to the Mercado Central with my class. After, I definitely needed a nap. Once again, this week wasn't too great for sleeping. After my nap, I spent the afternoon with Melvin but then came back home for dinner.  After dinner, I went to Iron Man 3 with Anna and Jen. I was so tired that I might have even taken a nap during the middle of the movie. I had promised Melvin that I would stop at the bar that he was working at to say hi so instead of going home, I ended up there with him at about midnight. I stayed until closing when the bosses of the bar called me over and told me that I was going to have some drinks with them and Melvin. Apparently, now I'm a part of the family there. They were really funny because they were making fun of me and Mel the entire time. We ended up leaving at about 4 and I eventually got to bed at about 5.

On Saturday, I sleep in nice and late. At about 3, my friends Kristen, Anna, and I went to the bus which we rode to the Teatro Nacional to meet up with Melvin. He was sweet enough to offer to help us get to Heredia because we had no idea how to get there on a bus. Silly Gringas. So we walked a few blocks and hopped on the bus to Heredia. I thought that Melvin was just going to take us to the stop but he rode the entire way with us and waited with us until we found our friends. We met up with Natalia and Karin, two of our friends that we met in Panama. After thanking him about a million times, we left him to go get some food and leave for the party. We drove for about 30 minutes and finally got to INCAE, a small international business school. Apparently, every year, they throw an amazing party that is about all of the different nations. And yeah, it was pretty good. They had live bands and DJs and everything. We danced pretty much every type of dance you could. We were out until about 2 and then we walked back to the car and went to Tico Hamburgesa for some much needed food. After, we decided to go back to Natalia's and crash.

On Sunday, I made everyone get up early because I had plans to go out with Melvin for a surprise in San Jose. So, even though we didn't want to, we got up at 8 and drove back to SJ. We hopped a bus back to our neighborhood and I left with Melvin for the surprise. Pobrecito, I don't really do surprises very well and figured out that we were going to the Parque de Diversiones, the tican equivalent of an amusement park. So, we met up in SJ and got batidos, or smoothies. Fresh fruit smoothies, oh, how I'll miss them. Then, we got on a bus to get to the park. The motto of the park is "El nino sano ayuda el nino enfermo", or "The healthy child helps the sick child", meaning that all of the money that is made in the park goes to help sick kids. It is run by the government in order to support the children's hospital. The park wasn't as large as Six Flags, but it was still really fun. We rode on the big rides and even went up on the giant drop, even though I thought it was going to kill me. After, even though the park was owned by the government, we went to the mass that was offered in the church there. It was actually really funny having mass while there were people screaming from the rides about 100 meters away. To end the night at the park, we rode in the paddle boats. The pond was filled with fish that would even come up to the surface. It was fun. We then took the bus back to SJ were we went to Popeye's for dinner. Yup, still delicious. I ended up coming home after and just going straight to bed.

That was my last weekend in San Jose. I cannot believe it. It was so much fun but a little bitter sweet because I know that I'll miss it. I don't even have words to describe this feeling.