Random Happenings

So I realize that as this year goes on, I'm getting so much worse at keeping this up. I still have many Christmas break travels I have yet to talk about, long weekends to catch up on, and random happenings throughout the weeks that I haven't mentioned. I'll just mention a come of the more significant happenings that have occurred in the past couple weeks.

So we arrived back from our Norte trip (which I have not talked about yet) on Monday around noon still all grodey, stinky, and cramped from our 15-hour sprint back home. I missed my classes that day but Rafa said they were excused (because our trip was just that legit and he was jealous/proud of us). That night he invited some of us guys to a special event at some super nice museum off of Libertador. It was an event for the Nature Conservatory Project (something like that) and Rafa is trying to get us (Pepperdine) partnered up with them in some way, shape, or form. Not quite sure what he's trying to swing...Anyways we were the greeters who handed out name tags and directed people to where they needed to go. Wasn't a bad gig at all- we were constantly being fed appetizers and drinks by the waiters that were walking around and mingling among the crowd. We felt like high rollers. After a while they all went inside for some kind of presentation and we kicked it and chilled at the entrance enjoying our free exquisite food and drinks. After the presentation Rafa brought us in to mingle with everybody. Little did we know that we'd be talking with former presidential candidates, billionaires, and all other upper-echelon people. Very cool night.

The crew that went to the Norte had the idea of buying Karu (Sassot's jungle friend) a present. Sassot had said he loved books so we figured we'd get him some kind of jungle/animal/amazon book. Liz and I went to the Ateneo (formerly Grand Splendid Yenny) but struck out there. We figured we'd just order the book we figured would be perfect instead (The Jungle Book) of settling for something sub-par. Afterwards we went to Jajau and found our favorite ice cream of the year- essentially peanut butter with reeses.

Last night us dudes set out to go find a bomb burrito place. I didn't suggest it, so I didn't look into it because i figured they would. They didn't. We remembered someone telling us where it might have been, trusted that, and found out that we couldn't have been any further away. So we went to La Pena del Colorado and had some bomb empanadas. Afterwards 6 of us dudes went out to Grido.

This morning I had breakfast with my homestay brother at Oui Oui and had an amazing waffle with fruit, nutella, and honey.