April 15

Our Friday activity took us to the Valencian Port today. The 70 of us split into groups of 4, and my group started out easy with rope tying. Except, it wasn't all that easy, because the amount of English the instructors knew was very minimal, but it made for a great time. We were so good at that, we finished half an hour early. Some people started playing a game of ninja, something that was popular my 8th/9th grade years, and one of the instructors was intrigued, so he joined. In return, he taught us a Spanish game that he called "sol y sombra" meaning sun and shadow. In this game, there was one person calling out the terms and the others were following his orders. If he said "sol" you jumped in front of the line, and if he said "sombra" you jumped behind the line. You cannot do the same thing twice, so if he said, "sol," and people jumped, then he said "sol" again, you wouldn't be allowed to move, and if you did, you would be out. The person calling out would get faster and people would start to get confused, Once the first game was over, he added in left and right as well. At some point these 3 old ladies walked by, and they stopped to watch. One was telling her friends how to play the game and telling our other instructor that she used to play that as a child.

We moved on to group sailing, 4 of us controlling one of the boats with an instructor, that doesn't know English. Sammi had to act as translator, which she was pretty good with, but I felt clueless. After that we moved onto 2 people controlling a sailboat, and Nahee and Lia were the first, and only, of our group to capsize, and I saw it all. It was hilarious. Once that was over we kayaked back to the other dock, which was about 300 yards from where we were, and the wind was in our face. I made it though, and that's all that matters!

Then FSU provided us with lunch, which they weren't going to do (and it would've pissed quite a few people off), that included bread, salad, croquet, paella, and dessert (fruit, not really dessert, chocolate was not included). It was a great, 'last Friday' in Valencia.