Today I woke up late, and then spent a few hours writing to
UCLA scholarship essays that I had been
procrastinating on and that were due today. For lunch, we ate humitas outside
on the patio. Then I showered, dressed up, and got ready for the joint birthday
party that Cata and I were having at Cata’s house that night. I walked over to
the Jumbo to meet Pablo so we could help each other pick out birthday presents
for Cata. I got her a really cute pink pillow in the shape of a heart. Then I
took a collectivo over to Cata’s to help her set up for the party. There was so
much food to put out on the tables, and I was shocked when she pulled out beers
to serve. Her mom seemed completely fine with the fact that underage kids would
be drinking beer in her house. Slowly, people started arriving for the party.
We sat around the table and talked and caught up. They were mostly people from
Cata’s class (she had invited the whole class and I had decided not to invite
too many people because I didn’t want it to become awkward with a bunch of
groups of people who aren’t really friends), so it was nice to catch up with
people I hadn’t seen all summer. I shared the gum and Sour Patch Kids that I
had brought from the US. We played Just Dance inside for a while. They sang to
Cata and I and we all ate cake. I love realizing how much I missed the people
there and also how much they missed me. Around 12, some people left and the
rest of us went up to Cata’s room to change our clothes and get ready to go out
to a party at a club called Sunshine.
We got there around 1 with Saa, Stefano,
Heian, Isa, Ale, Cata, Amaya (Cata’s friend from San Fernando), Isi, Mari, and
Rosario. We danced for a while, and had a great time. The girls all made a pact
to stay together and not go off and dance with guys, which actually made it a
lot more fun.
Around 3:30, Cata’s mom picked Cata, Amaya, and I up and we went
back to Cata’s house and went straight to sleep without even talking that much
because we were all so tired.
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