The past week and a half has been really fun but also vary intense. Last weekend I went to Corinto with my host family. Corinto is a small town on the beach in the south western part of Nicaragua. It was a really nice relaxing weekend. We spent alot of time with the family, the entire extended family lives within a couple blocks of eachother a minute walk away from the beach. Its a cool city because it hasn´t been occupied by resorts and restaurants, casas de carton line the beautiful beach. Also everyone rides bicycles and takes tricycles for taxis. My family owns a couple tricycles so we took those out and biked our family around. There was a fair going on Saturday night, which consisted of a Ferris wheel and a merry-go-round. The Ferris wheel was problably the scariest ride I have ever been on, but it was fun!
On Tuesday we had our final take home exam due and since no one did it over the weekend alot of us stayed up till 5 in the morning, then some of us had a good conversation about living in Nicaragua.
Thursday we left for our "mystery location" which was a beautiful beach near Leon. It was a really nice two days. We did alot of swimming, ultimate frisbee and just hanging out. Thursday night we had a bonfire and made smores. We also made a human chain laying on the beach looking at the stars and talking. It was alot of fun.
Last night we all went out one last time- it was so fun! We went dancing at a couple places and everyone was just groovin and having a good time. At about 4 am we took the first bus of people to the airport. It was really hard to say goodbye, its been really hard saying goodbye to all these people because I have grown so close to them over the past four months. Four months is alot of time to spend with only 17 other people your age. I mean we´ve had friends from some of the countries but all 18 of us have been together the entire time. We have been through so much, its just hasn´t sunk in that its over. I keep thinking I´m gonna see them all tommorrow and we´ll continue our experiences here.