March 15

March 14

I wasn't feeling super well, so I went to Spanish class, got my exam grade, 91% :D and then went to the store to buy bread. White bread, cause, toast, Mom taught me well. I ate my toast and then went to take my pre-calc exam. The exam went well, I think, but my friends have me really nervous. I got finished in an hour and a half, which really isn't that bad, but my friends were there for an hour, and hour and a half after me...They're not super confident about the exam, but I keep feeling like I missed something because I finished so early.

Later, once my friends all finished we went out in search for food for them. The place they wanted was closed so we ended up at another cheque place. I ended up getting something small, so that was okay, and after dinner we went to the lights.

The light show is a big deal here...like, hundreds of people show up at 9/9:30 to watch these lights dance to music for 5 minutes. It was really cool, we also saw more Fallas on our walk to and from.

March 15

I started my morning with a walk, because running just seemed like a lot of work before class. Then I actually went to class, but that was shortened by an hour and a half, There was a bull fight today...that I did not attend, but others did, so they let us out early. 

We walked around to see some more Fallas, because they all need to be up by the 15th, so many are going up now. There are a lot of fairly, vulgar, statutes, but that's okay, we definitely get a laugh out of it. 

Later we went to Tako Away for dinner and then headed for the lights again, because Jacqueline and Heather hadn't been. It seemed to go by faster the second time, but we also didn't wait as long. I was not feeling as great about it today as I was yesterday. There were too many close people, too much weed and smoke, and too many explosions going on around us. We had split from Lia, Marilyn and Jacqueline, but somehow ran into them again and started making our way back home around 11. Now, the fireworks started at 12 and lasted about 20 minutes. They were pretty spectacular, but I cannot understand why Valencia spends so much money on all of this stuff. It's insane! 

Aleesia, Jacqueline and I got back before the rest of the crew. They all came in about 15 minutes after us, screaming at each other and suddenly everyone invited themselves into our kitchen. Our kitchen can comfortably hold about 8 people, there were twice that. They were screaming over each other, they started drinking, and they started playing really loud videos...like, really loud. I was soooooo done. Marilyn got everyone out though, earlier than expected, she's my favorite person ever. 

Once they all left, we (Aleesia, Jacqueline and myself) had about 5 minutes of peace before they dragged me to the street food stand 3 blocks down. Mind you, it's 1:30 in the morning, and I was in my sweatpants and Jacqueline wore crocs. We definitely stood out. There were tons of people there, watching the finishing of the structure next to the stand. At 1/2am is when they begin adding the finishing touches to the structures. They all have to be done by a the morning of March 16th, so they work through the night. People were working and people were watching and they were dressed appropriately, but we made memories. Tonight, as in, this last half an hour, was really spectacular.