Saturday August 21, 2010
Snorkeling was really fun minus the fact that everyone on the bus got money stole from them. *sad* We went on a boat for about a 20 min ride to an island where we first got out to snorkel. We had about an hour there then we headed for lunch. For lunch we ate grilled chicken and fish, coleslaw, bread, and rice. Then we sat for a while drinking our cup of coffee (which is the size of a shot glass. If you order a coffee anywhere you will get a shot glass size. Nothing ever larger than that.) We sat resting and then went to another cove to snorkel. We saw sea urchins, plenty of colorful amazing fish, and a lion fish! I don’t think my body has ever taken that much salt water in haha. We got to know the people on the boat really well, they were so nice. There was a fun German couple, some people from Argentina and some from Venezuela. The two people pretty much loved Mark and I. They told us that they wanted to play volleyball and swim some more, as if we hadn’t been swimming all day. But we said we would love to, then after playing volleyball with Rafael and Jennifer, they said they would take us home, instead of us paying for a taxi.
Sunday August 22, 2010
Today was another awful day of crazy travels. First we got up and had a cab waiting for us at 7:00am we went to the ferry where I had to wait in line almost an hour to get our tickets. Then we had to wait for another hour just to get on the ferry. Once we finally got onto the ferry we had to wait in a HOT HOT line by where the cars park. We were sweats bullets like no other. When we got to the front of the never ending line, we found out we were in the wrong line the whole time. When we got to the correct stairs we went up them to find out we were on the worst level. I would compare it to the cheapest level on the titanic. It was HORRIBLY hot and we were sweating non-stop. After the 4 hour ferry ride we went to the bus station where we told a completely coked out man that we needed a ticket to caracas on the next bus leaving. After yelling with this man he wrote us tickets for supposedly 4:00 so it would be any minute that the bus would be pulling up. Well when we talked to him again he booked us on the 12:30am!! Bus. After getting our money back we went to the next station where we got tickets for the correct next bus. We had a 6 hour CRAZY bus ride, definitely thought we were going to tip over, he was a horrrrrible driver. When we arrived in Caracas we got a hotel and spent the night, ready for our trip for Merida en la manana!
Monday August 23
We took a taxi to the Caracas airport to meet up with the rest of the group. We were so excited to have the group with us. When they finally arrived we took a smaller plane for one hour to a closer city. Then we had to get on a 2 hour bus ride to the city of Merida! It was so exciting pulling up to the city. When I met my host family, they were so inviting and amazing. I got very lucky because I have my own room, my own bathroom, we have wireless internet (which is rare). I look outside and in our front yard is a mandrain tree, a platain tree, and an alvacado tree, it is surreal! It's nice waking up in the morning to go to school and realize that you are surrounded by the Andes mountains. All is well here!
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