I never knew how quickly I would get attached to my future student's but it did not take long for me to fall in love with my 2nd grade kiddos at the American School of Valencia. The students in the class were so excited and came up to Audrey and I the minute we stepped into the room and wanted to know all about us. It was really cool seeing how the class was run and I was surprised at how good their english was, since most of the students only speak spanish in their homes. Even when they could not think of what they were trying to explain to me we ended up playing a game of sharades so I could guess and it always ended up with them laughing at me and my lack of spanish! :P As the week progressed I grew very close to all my girls in the class, which was very unusal since I tend to usually lean more towards the boys. We played hide and seek at recess and they taught me other games they like to play. One day we were able to do an activity with them and had everyone make their own cowboys and the kids absolutely LOVED IT! Another day we had a big assembly in the auditorium and we taught all the students at the school how to line dance. It was funny because they all have this image of all of us being cowgirls in everything we do and in reality we were all just learning the dance ourselves at 11:30 the night before. I had they best week ever with them and I am so happy I was blessed with the opportunity to get to know them.
Saturday was so much fun! We had our DO! Valencia day which was a day packed with so many different things. We started out going to a Hot Springs to swim and the water was so beautiful. The HOT springs was actually a little cold but the water was crystal clear and the view was amazing. We had big cliffs on either side of us and small caves we could swim in. We went down the stream a little ways and found rocks we could climb up and go cliff diving off of! It was crazy and soooo much fun! I think everyone in our goup besides a few girls ended up jumping. After that we ate lunch and hiked up a mountain to a cave. The view up there was so pretty. Next we went to a waterfall which was pretty neat. After we left that our guide took us to this little cafe in a small town were we had Topas( a bunch of little appitizers) and wine. We had so much fun at that little restaurante! To finish up the day we stopped and saw a couple bull runs.
Today has been a pretty chill day. We were able to sleep in for the first time and it felt great! We all went to lunch at this really fancy restaurant and food was amazing. They closed it down so we could have the whole place to ourselves and kept bringing us out dish after dish. Afterwards Audrey and I went to Cafe Bla Bla, this little place we went to on one of first nights in Valencia, for a cup of coffee. It has been a nice relaxing day but it's hard to believe after dinner tonight we are packing to leave Valencia. I am going to miss this city, it was starting to feel like home to us.
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