Last night we went out with Jo, Karen, and the couple from Chicago, Ryan and Kendell, came too. We didn't stay too long. There seemed to only be younger people out. Apparently out kind of crowd only goes out during the weekdays. We went to eat at around 11 and didn't finish until about 2. We didn't stay too long since we had to be up for the trip today at 8 a.m. Plus I had to hide from Ashley. The most eventful things were Jasmine getting stopped for not having an id/looking under 21 and some random guy asking if I wanted a drink. Which I refused. Yeah, fun night, right.
So we had to be at the company at 8 a.m. Jasmine, me and the couple from Chicago were the only ones that went. Of course they were running late. We didn't leave until 30 minutes later. We were so tired. The bus was nice. The guide talked in Spanish and would translate a few sentences into English. Thank goodness I could understand the Spanish, even his English was terrible.
You cannot come to Uruguay without knowing any Spanish. No one knows
English.
We went through several coastal towns that were gorgeous. We went to the town of San Antonio's patronage. Punto del Este was beautiful. I could see why all the rich and famous go there, even if it was freezing.
All the houses have a nameplate with the name its owners gave it instead of street numbers. There were some very interesting names. I saw Tejas Azul and Tejas Verde. People here love Texas.
In the beach there is what looks like a hand coming out of the sand that is very famous. It signifies South America rising from its economic crisis. There is an anchor in another place that marks the line between the Rio de Plata and the Ocean. We left after eating at Johnny Walker and then left to go home. Maria made us empanadas that are waiting for us back at home.
Speaking of Maria (our house mom.) She is a total punk. She is only hosting us for the money. She told Jasmine not to tell the school she was leaving early because she wouldn't be paid on the very first day she met her. That is ridiculous. The other day we had used her phone to make a 30 second phone call to Karen at the school. We asked to use it again yesterday and she went off on Jasmine. She told her that it wasn't included and was really rude about it.
In addition, the other day she made us asado (their form of barbecue.) It was absolutely amazing by the way. But it was totally ruined when she came and chewed Jasmine out for eating ribs with her hands. I mean, it would have been maybe okay if she had just said something gently and dropped it, but she was extremely rude and condescending about it. I still like her.
I think she is just old and set in her ways and can't help looking down on those who are different from her. I will be praying for her.
Today Jasmine and I got to know Kendell and Ryan better and hopefully we will be seeing more of them. Neither of them know too much Spanish and Uruguay is not English-friendly so it's nice to help them out.
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