Fiesta Fiesta Fiesta!!!

Thursday was the Festival of the Candles...and by candles I mean fireworks EVERYWHERE! It is not a holiday celebrated by many, but a Catholic group large enough to have fireworks going off in every quadrant of town. We grabbed some deck chairs and sat on the roof of our dorms and enjoyed the show(s).
On Friday I finished up with Spanish classes early, because not only was I too lazy and tired to withstand more than 3 hours, my teacher was even lazier than I was. Played memory for a good hour...woot, and then she looked at my pics on the cam. Had a bit of a party in our room before going out and celebrating the finish of school. We didn´t leave til about 11pm, and all the bars close at 1am, so not too much partying in. There is always an after party, but they try to charge gringos...that and the fact that there was no music was reason enough to NOT pay, so just walked back home with Jeff, Ross, Otto and Brinne.
Saturday booked my flight to Costa Rica, and checked out the market. Thursdays and Saturdays are official market days, but going there wasn´t too fun. Picked up some portable speakers, but shopping really doesn´t excite me.
We had dinner, a nap, and then headed out to the bars...this time at 11:30, but after the bars closed, we met up with a local and he got us into the afterparty free of charge. It was quite a lot of fun, with a fire, music, beers and a lot of Guatemalas eager to practice their english with us. After that ended at about 4, we got a ride back to our place with some friendlies from the city, and exchanged numbers so might party again on Tuesday or Thursday.
Jeff dissappeared last night, and just reappeared 5 minutes ago. He had some crazy adventure of going into the city for even more partying...but thats another story. We're going to head to the lake in about 30 minutes and probably spend a couple of nights there.
Adios Gentes!
-Mitchell-

Photos: Sunset view from our dorm roof...Fireworks from Festival of the Candles...Gong show pre party on Friday