Highlights of Week 5

Not much to report for this week. I experienced a 3 day sick spell but am feeling better now. My key experiences involved reunions with friends, parties, and movies/tv.

Monday night I went out to Chili's restaurant with 3 exchange friends and one of my school friends. We had a great time.

Tuesday night I Skyped home so that I could watch the very important premiere of my favorite shows, NCIS and NCIS:LA. Yes, I Skyped home because I just couldn't wait to watch it online the next day. And yes it was crazy of me and the quality was only okay, but it was only for the premiere. And yes they are only TV shows. But it was only a one-time thing, don't worry. haha

Wednesday I didn't have to go to school but I didn't do anything because I was feeling sick. I ended up watching TV almost all day.

Thursday night I went to the mall with 2 of my exchange friends and 2 friends from Machala that we met at the Banana Queen event. We played in the arcade- I found out I am pretty good at air hockey- and then we went to the cinema to see the movie "The Internship". It was a fun evening together.

Friday my sickness finally subsided a little bit. That night I spent time with my host family. First, we stopped at the Christopher Columbus Park and my host Dad took some pictures (that I will share when I have a larger amount of pictures to post). Then we went to get ice cream and stop at the grocery store. I went and bought 2 DVD's for only 3 bucks. I seriously have a list of DVD's and I am planning on filling a suitcase to bring back with me because they are so cheap here!

Saturday I had two parties. The first was at my classmate's house on her rooftop patio. My exchange friend Simone (from Switzerland) and I had a blast interacting with my classmates. We listened to music and ate a bunch of meat that the guys cooked (more like burned) on the grill. Then we went to the birthday party of an exchange friend in the next town over. Almost all of our Machala club exchangers were there, and we danced and talked and had chips and cake. I had a great time! I got home at 1am and the get-together that my host parents were having (which I discovered had burnt meat as well when I tried to stomach the leftovers for lunch on Sunday) was still going on. In fact, it went on past 3am, after we had lost power and got it back two times. I was asleep before they left.

Sunday was chill. I slept half the day and wrote some emails and Skyped home.