Even though it started off kind of horrible, I had such an amazing New Year's this year !!!
Nancy decided to take the whole fam (Gabo, Junior, everybody!) and like 7 or 8 of Francheska's friends to Tortugas beach for New Years; where the party's at apparently. We went to el centro around 1pm to set up a huge taxi thing to meet us at her house and shuttle us all there. He said he could pick us up at 5:30pm. Then it was 6:30pm. Then he called saying 8:20 at the earliest. Then it was 10:30pm and he stopped answering our calls, so our heroine Nancy flew to el centro and hustled down another taxi. Then it was 11:30pm ish when we finally arrived at Tortugas. It was kinda cold. Well, for them they were dying, poor things. I was fine xD But at night, it's suuuper windy and misty coolness on the beach. We made a little fire and I set up their two tents (because nobody had ever set up a tent before and had no idea how...) while trying not to get frustrated w them all MIA MIA MIA NO ENTIENDOOO RAWSDAS and being idiot tent setter-uppers hahahah oh god. Nearly set one of them on fire. (the tents that is) Good job boy scouts. You're failing... Anywho! Got out my camera and walked sola down to the ocean (soooo ridiculously warm for ocean water. warmer than any yukon lake!!) to take some pics of fireworks. Or try to anyways :P The beach is in like a sei circle thing that closes in on itself almost and so through the mist you could see the countless fireworks exploding across the water and stuff so it was pretty cool. I got ONE super awesome firework pic hahahh so difficult but anyways. Woooo happy new year. I kinda missed the countdown and was needing some breathing alone time from the little children but then Johanna and Louise, who were there with Zoraida (the coolest AFS volunteer), Johanna's brother, and some Peruvian friends, came and rescued me! And we had the sweeeeetest time ever. If they hadn't been there, I would have had one of those breakdown moments.
Jhoselyn paid 60 soles to go to the discoteca set up thingy with her boyfriend, but I am waaaay too cheap to have done that. So we just hung out w Gaby's pick up truck infront of the party, where we could hear and dance to the music just fine. And we were closer to the hot food stands hahaa. I'm so surprised Nancy was so relaxed and awesome about that night, because I didn't go back to sleep in the tents like everyone else, but just chilled with my friends until 8:30am and went back when everyone was crawling out of the tents waking up hahaha so I was pretty much missing for 8 hours. But yeah, Gaby is super cool, and I met 3 other old AFS students who had returned to Peru, one from Germany, one from Swizterland and I don't remember where the Asian guy was from. Older people are more my crowd. I had sooo much fun. I was wearing my lucky yellow underwear (everyone wears something yellow for good luck in the new year) and we ate our 12 grapes (good luck for every month), me one for each of my friends there, 2 for Louise, one for Canada and one for me :P Then we partied until and past the sunrise over the mountain tops! hahah it was awesome. Then it got suuuper sunny and so at 8:30am I stripped down and went swimming. Apparently that's way too early and too cold to do such a thing, so I was the only one out there. Then they told me (as I was swimming) that there's eels and "fish that pica" in the water. I got out pretty fast.. hahah.
By then, after passing out on our beach towels for awhile, Nancy and everyone woke up and then Louise and my buddies left so I spent the day with Fran and her friends getting all sandy and sunburnt and feeling way too tired to live. I went swimming a second time with Fran before we left and was teaching two adult men how to float. "Can you swim?" is a common question here!! Crazy. I also know lots of people who have never ridden a bike. o_O Anyways. The water was awesome. Warmer than Marsh Lake on a good day! Then we walked around and ate ice cream and Mona and her host sister Arlette showed up for awhile too. By 5pm we'd made it home and showered and fell asleep until January 2nd :P Chyea! Awesome awesome AWESOME! :)
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