Well, I woke up last night at 5 AM and started puking my guts out.
I blame the choclo and queso that we got off the street at Polvos yesterday. When I mentioned that to Rosa, she was basically like Duh! But Carlin and Hannah were fine, so I guess I got the bad chunk of cheese.
I was supposed to go to the school for my last day today, but I still wasn't feeling too great at 6:45, so I went back to sleep and ended up heading there at 10ish. Profesora Delia gave me a lecture about eating street food, too. Oops.
I gave the kids an English exam, and then served them the sweet bread I'd bought for them from Metro yesterday, and gave Prof. Delia a little mug with chocolates in it. Then some of the kids got up and said a few words ("Thank you for sharing your language with us, we hope you have a safe trip home and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with your family, etc.") and then they sang me a goodbye song, which was Auld Lang Syne with Spanish words that I couldn't really understand, because the kids didn't really know them. It was really cute though. It was a good last day.
It was definitely bittersweet leaving. Those kids have given me a lot of stress headaches, but at the end of the day, they're sweet kids.
After school, Raquel and I took mom out to lunch. We went to a new Japanese restaurant that just opened a couple of blocks away and had some ramen. Then I went with Raquel to PUCP, because she's enrolling there for next semester and had to turn in some forms. It was obviously the last time I'll ever be on campus, so we took some pics and then headed to Polvos so she could get her phone fixed.
After that, we headed to Hannah's house because she was getting picked up to go to the airport at 8:00. We hung out with her until her cab came. It was so sad! And it's going to be me tomorrow!
Part of me is excited to be home, to see everyone again, to drive my car (on roads where people obey traffic laws), to stop having to stick big bills in my bra and make sure my hand is on my purse at all times. On the other hand, it's below freezing in Lincoln right now. And I'm going to miss everyone here a lot.
Raquel and I decided to stay in tonight. We watched American Horror Story on my laptop while I began to pack. I'd say I'm about halfway done. I'm crossing my fingers everything will fit, and it won't be overweight.
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