What a day my Saturday turned out to be! I got up early to work on my final paper for my Romanticism class, and the day seemed to be never-ending from that point on. There was nothing bad about the day; it just feels like there was enough time today to make about three days instead of just one. I guess as home gets closer time creeps along more slowly.
I’m happy to say that my paper writing was very successful, and I was able to finish the entire paper this morning. I already had an outline created and all of the information I needed collected, so I just needed to spend a few hours throwing everything together. I will need to go back a proofread/edit it tomorrow, but I was very happy with the progress of the morning. It was a little odd working on my paper because for some reason I was supremely distracted, and the electricity went out in our apartment for a few hours, so I was writing in a fairly dark room. Corinne and I took over the living room to work on our homework since Rosa had gone out to buy some groceries, and we enjoyed bouncing ideas off of each other and progressing together, and little by little things fell together.
We had a wonderful lunch of pallela, a Spanish-style stir fry which contained Spanish rice and some yummy meat, and Rosa told us all about her extended family and how most of them came to live in Cuba. The story was super interesting, and I hated to run after lunch, but I had a Skype date to get to. ;) I spent the afternoon catching up with things at home, which was just the best, and then I met up with Danielle and Corinne to check out the Christmas market in city center. I picked up a couple of gifts that I really love, and then we headed back to the apartment to get ready for church.
We had asked Rosa if we could go to church with her sometime this semester in order to see the typical Spanish church in action, and tonight’s mass was the one that worked out for her to take us to. The church was virtually empty, as was expected, but the service was very much the same as every other Catholic service I’ve ever been to. Listening to mass in Spanish brought me back to Costa Rica a little bit, but I tried hard to keep my thoughts focused on what was going on, and I appreciated the message on the joy of Christ that the priest shared.
After church, Rosa treated us to tapas, which was really fun, and then Corinne and I began the second season of the series we’ve been watching all semester. In all, it was a very full, complete day, and in the end, I’m exhausted and more than ready to get some sleep and do it all over again with a few changed details tomorrow.
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