Good Company

Today we went and worked the afternoon shift in the hospital (yay!). We met some of the other volunteers- Lisa is from England, but is leaving on Thursday. Jennifer and Hollie are from Pennsylvania, they live 30 minutes away from each other back home, BUT turns out they have never met and both just came out here randomly at the same time! Pretty cool how that worked out. They travelled to Venice this past weekend and said it was a lot of fun! There are two long term volunteers here right now- Joe, who is from Scotland, and Manuel (they call him Manu), who is from Germany. They are both really nice, hard to understand sometimes though.

After the hospital we all went over to Raelene's house for our Mexican meal!! She had chips and fresh guacamole :) = happy Cissy! They made everything from scratch and every one pitched in to help! It was a really cool experience to get to see so many people coming together for a common good and enjoying a night over a home cooked meal. We had chicken, rice, beans, salsa, guacamole, lettuce, onions, cheese, tortillas, etc. They made the works! Jenna and I contributed soda and wine (even though I don't like either of those haha.... or most of the food that was there... but I had some rice & beans! and a little chicken & cheese). We connected a bunch of tables together and all 12 of us sat around talking and eating and learning about where everyone comes from, what they do, and what brought them here. It was so much fun.

After dinner (and a few glasses of wine for most of the people), they started up some karaoke. They were all getting so into it, it was really funny. They kept trying to get me to do it, and I don't mind karaoke, the only problem was the song choices that I usually would sing during karaoke- their lyrical content did not seem appropriate. My go to karaoke songs are all Eminem!!!! Hahaha. So I politely declined. I told them that I would go home and practice a duet with Jenna and next time we would sing. I have already decided what it will be- A Whole New World, but I want to be Aladdin and Jenna gets (has) to be Jasmine. (Aladdin has much cooler parts in the song).

We stayed there until about 11pm and then took a taxi home so we didn't have to walk home in the dark. Then I had to do the dreaded Insanity work out!!! But I convinced Jenna to do half of it with me!! (I think those glasses of wine are what swayed her my way!!!- muahaha).

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Tomorrow (Wednesday) we work the morning shift at the Hospital. I'm interested to see how it all works since we haven't had the chance to work one yet. I was Lisa about it tonight at dinner and she said that the morning shift is just a bit more rushed, but still good. She will be working with us in the morning.

After that we will probably head into the Town Square and grab some lunch somewhere. Then at 2pm the girls from FFR are doing a project outreach thing with some teenage girls that they invited us to, so we will go to that.

Then at 5pm we are heading over to the fountain in the middle of Town Square to meet up with Sanzi. Sanzi is ... well it's a random connection that I will try and explain- My aunt, Dede (my mom's youngest sister) ... her boss' wife is from Romania, and I believe that Sanzi is her niece? or family friend? Something like that! Well anyways, I got her email from Dee before I got here and she said that we should meet up! So she emailed me yesterday and set a time and place and we will meet her there tomorrow! It should be interesting! She seems very nice so maybe we will go and grab ice cream or something!

After that I don't think we have anything planned! I'm sure that we will be tired because we stayed up late tonight at the dinner & karaoke + insanity & writing this!

[hiiiiiiiiiii ALLY :) i miss you so much!!!!!]

I just wanted to say thank you again to everyone that has been following along and reading the blogs. It's really comforting to know that you all care enough to do so. It means a lot to me. I love you and I miss you!!!

Ter.. stop trying to text me all the time I don't have a phone
Giig.. text ter all day now that you have an Iphone too in order to keep her texting habit under control.
Daddy.. i miss you and i love you so much!!!
Laura... I can't wait to snuggle you when I get home!!! Tell steven i say hiiiiii :)
Miguel.. i hope that frank gets beat up by squidward!!!!
Amy... I love that you are reading this! makes me so happy!!!
Dee.. I love you and i will let you know how meeting up with Sanzi goes so you can tell your boss!
Nick.. continue to watch bachelor for me and give me weekly updates please
Bestie Best... I love you and tell Bray that I miss him when you see him tomorrow!!!
Gram.. i hope you and pop are having fun on your cruise!
Wilma.. thank you for reading!! make sure you update your mom too!!
And anyone else who may be reading that i dont know about.. thank you!!!!