Just a heads up: I no longer have my computer so I now am using the app. I can't caption pictures or organize the way I want to which is really annoying but it happens....in fact, Blogger App doesn't even keep my posts in order by date which the online version does. I have no clue how they are ordered on this app but it doesn't make me the least bit happy.
On Monday, Melisa and I planned our trip to Finistere for Tuesday which was promptly changed when Melisa's friends decided they were hosting us for a goodbye dinner. I didn't get a chance to tell my host mum the change of plans though so she made plans for lunch the next day thinking I wouldn't be there. On Tuesday, we attempted to find Monbus at the bus station but could not find it anywhere so we never ended up going to Finistere. 
I went home for lunch, figuring my host mom who had briefly seen me that morning had figured out I wasn't going to Finistere only to find out she had plans. I feel really bad cause she rushed to make me food before leaving. I should've sent her a message or something but I didn't think about it. Well since she was in a huge rush at lunch, I didn't tell her about my dinner plans and decided I would just eat two dinners since I again didn't think about the fact that I have her number and can message her.
Now I admit, I really didn't want to go to this goodbye party. The only person who I knew that was hosting it had ended up not being able to go and I just didn't want to be there for that awkwardness. Obviously I still went at the scheduled time and we had fun I suppose. Dinner wasn't ready until it was time for me to go home for dinner though so I didn't get to try the Mexican food that they made which I really wanted to try. It was also Morgue's 20th birthday Tuesday so we were celebrating that afterwards. After I left the goodbye party though I was in a really bad mood and didn't go back out to hang with them. I regret it but no take backs. 
On Wednesday, the festival for Ascension 2016 began and all the lights we had been watching people put up were turned on. I went to two concerts that night. I absolutely hated the first one which was the 40 top hits and run by a DJ who kept interrupting the music. The plaza was also packed without breathing room so my social anxiety was throwing a hissy fit at me for being so close to the stage where everyone wanted to be. We went to the concert in Alameda after that and stayed there for about 2 or 3 hours and it was just wonderful. I quite enjoyed that concert and was really impressed that they could dance and sing without a long break. Once that was over, Steph and I hunted down our friends which were unsurprisingly at our usual bar, Copas Rotas. Morgue, Tim, Marge, Mary, Steph and I then proceeded to the fair where we bought tickets to the Ferris Wheel after buying many food items. The Ferris Wheel was terrifying. Not only is it supposedly one of the biggest in the world that travels around from place to place but it also goes extremely fast. It was going roller coaster speed for sure and then would slow down like it was time to get off before it would take off going real fast again. So put a drunk person, a buzzed scared of heights person and me who also is scared of heights on this Ferris wheel together and you get magic. Morgue was screaming basically the whole time, and rocking our carriage or whatever it's called. Steph kept moving around too. Oh I forgot to mention Steph and I both get motion sick! We were on that ride forever (10 minutes or so) and quickly decided it was never happening again and it was awful. Steph has the snap story of us screaming that it's never happening again to prove it. Did I mention we did this at 3 in the morning? After that we called it a night and headed home. This was the latest night I ever stayed out, staying out until 4am so I feel real classy for almost hitting Spain stay out time.
On Thursday, I slept until noon and then went to Milay one last time. I don't know if I've talked about Milay before but I am a regular there and they know my order. Then we went back to the fair in Alameda and I bought some more cotton candy, I had had tropical the size of my head the day before and chose apple for the flavor on Thursday. 
It was wonderful. I went home and made dinner for my Vermonters after that since during lunch my host mom had explained she was busy and couldn't feed us so she put me in charge. I really felt like part of the family when she had me prepare dinner for the Vermonters, who ended up not even wanting it because they decided to go to Burger Lab. After dinner I started packing my bags and realized just how much crap my have. I really need to get rid of some of it for sure, I just don't know what.
While I was packing my host mom came in and told me she couldn't go to my graduation on Friday because she was going to Italy as a surprise Mother's Day present. So we said goodbye Thursday night successfully without crying. Then I went out with my friends, watched two concerts, went to Copas Rotas and then headed home to finish packing and write my presentation for my internship. I didn't go to sleep until around 3am.
On Friday, we gave our presentations on our internship and then went to the school's cafe one last time and headed to the print shop for all our travel needs. Then we filled out an evaluation of the semester and graduated.
We all need to work on our comical faces for silly photos obviously but that picture is from when we graduated. Then Steph and I went to Alameda and met up with Carlos to say goodbye before meeting the rest of our friends to say goodbye to them. I admit to crying. Then I went home finished packing, said by to my host brother, and headed to Vigo by train.
Right now I really wish I didn't have this month long adventure by myself. I wish I was either staying in Santiago or heading home. I just don't feel like traveling but I already have plans so I can't really back out of them sadly....
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