Dia Dos

After getting about 5 hours of sleep I awoke to the persistent sound of the door buzzer and loud knocking. My first roommate arrived at about 9:30. Since we were staying in a hotel for the first night, we all had 4 or 5 people to a room. After Mary arrived I went back to sleep for and hour or so before hunger finally enticed me to find food. I didn't know if Andrew would be up yet or what. So I hung out for a while to see if he was going to come down and see if I wanted breakfast... and about 12 I got sick of waiting and went of to find him. He was sitting in his room, with his roommate, nursing his hangover and watching tv, and having already gotten breakfast kept watching tv. Men... again... eh. So I went out on my own to find a "supermercado" or a grocery. At this point... after my failure of a dinner the night before I hadn't eaten very much and I was starting to feel like I might pass out. I found one easily at the direction of the man at the desk and proceeded to find: a cereal and yogurt combo, a large can of peaches, a huge bottle of water, a loaf of bread, some raisins, walnuts, and cashews, the last three for some make shift gorp (trailmix) so I wouldn't be in danger of starving again. It was an interesting breakfast. And I had some jam from Katiana's mother to put on the bread. By this time my two other roommates had arrived: Christina and Lauren.

I spent the rest of the day surfing the web or sleeping on my bed. We were all a little bored, but too tired to walk around, and our TV didn't work. Lauren went out to buy the new Harry Potter and read about 300 pages in the first 3 hours. Finally at 8 we all went down to the lobby, some 110 American college students poised to be set loose on the poor city. Just kidding. We were bussed to a huge buffet restaurant for dinner. This place was amazing! It had EVERYTHING! And all the food was so pretty... I don't think I'll even try to describe it, and I don't think you could imagine anyway. It was crazy. And it was packed. But the food was delicious. Buy the time we were done, about 11. I was really sleepy. When we got back to the hotel we tried to watch Empire Records... but we were too tired and went to sleep at about 12. I know some of the others in the group went out... but I was not interested. Besides, the wake up call was at 7 am then next morning.