"OMG, I'm so excited and I don't even know why!!!"

We waited a long time for our advertising professor.  After about 30 minutes of waiting we thought we would go to Patty's office to ask her about the length of our final presentation.  Well, she wasn't there because she was at a student's house.  We did more waiting and while we waited we caught up on reading and other homework.  At about 9:30am (an hour after class time) Carolina went up to me and said she was sorry but that the professor was not going to show up because she wasn't feeling good.  Apparently the professor emailed our ex-professor for Marketing and he told Paty, the director, and then she told Carolina to tell us.  Yeah.  Thanks for letting us know.  I went upstairs to the fourth floor to tell Yonseili.  She was reading the Alchemist on the couch.

For a while I went with Christian to an English class.  Nacho had told us that we could help by simply reading a few things in English so that the (two) students in that class could listen to our dictation.  It was interesting.

After that we went to the top floor where we would be making guaguas and be drinking colada morada.  Many students had signed up for this activity so it was fun for sure.  They had set up a huge table area for us to make balls of 'masa' that we then needed to roll and make into guaguas.  We could leave them as is or fill them with jelly.  Yonseili and I left ours alone.  Definitely a good activity and a great way to 'immerse' ourselves into the traditions of this country.  We missed our grammar class because of it but we still had literature.  Raquel had been doing some guaguas as well so we there wasn't an issue.  When we left out for lunch Yonseili and I gave our guaguas to Samuel the security guard.  He's definitely the friendliest of the security guards.  The others don't look too happy to be there sometimes, well, most of the time.

Yonseili and I went to eat at Zona Bambu and actually got our food quick.  When we were about done Brice, Shigueki and this other guy from England also came into the place, but they sat at their own table.  We went back to school and I waited for Yonseili to get out of class.  I read in the meantime. Also, before class Manuel, from Ecuador and apparently the president of their student council, invited us to the homecoming.  We had seen flyers all over the school but since we weren't interested we didn't pay attention to them.  He told us that it would be at an hacienda and it would be a fun hang out activity for students.  Our $10 would include food, transportation and "alcohol."  We weren't too convinced because we had a lot of stuff to do including packing for our weekend trip.  Then he said all students who were going would be excused from all classes.  I figured, why not?  I also figured it may be a way to actually mingle and meet nice Ecuadorians.  So we decided to go.  Yonseili got out of class early and we went to Patty's office to tell her we were going to the homecoming and therefore she could let our professors know.

Next stop was the C.C.I. to buy the Jonas Brothers concert tickets.  Yonseili then got a sandwich at El Español.  She was definitely ripped off.  She got more bread than anything and was charged $1 for each thing she asked for on it.  We split when we got home and got ready for the Alejandro Sanz concert.

We left at about 6ish I think.  Right when we stepped out of our gate, there was a couple who was also leaving the next door house and the guy asked if we were going to the concert.  He said, "Aya nos vemos."  We took a taxi and it took us forever to get there because of traffic.  The Coliseo General Rumiñahui is far anyway so it definitely took us a while to get there.  We were charged $4.50.  Approaching the coliseum, there were many ticket vendors.  Of course those tickets are sold at ridiculous prices.

When we got there we didn't have to wait in line.  We got in and looked for a seat.  The place was somewhat full by then.  Many people were saving seats for people who were probably not at the coliseum yet.  We eventually found a seat.  This seat was not directly in front of the stage, but it was much closer and on the side.  Nothing was blocking our view either and we had big screens we could easily look at.

Yonseili began to talk to two girls who were seating next to us.  One, Estefania, is from Quito and the other, Jessica, is from Riobamba.  They were great and easy to talk to.  Estefania is a huge fan of Sanz and Jessica was just there to go with her.  Yonseili got us popcorn and hot dogs as well as a Big Cola soda.  It tasted like RC Cola, and it wasn't cold.  When Yonseili was opening up her Guitig mineral water, it sprayed out and she wet the guy in front of us.  Hey, good thing it was water.  All she could say after she swung the water out in front of her so that she wouldn't get wet was, "Disculpe!"  Too funny.

The band, or guy, that began was from Ecuador, Brandao.  He was okay.  Then they shut off the lights and they started playing Looking for Paradise by Sanz and Alicia Keys.  The crowd went wild and it was more wild when he came out.

Highlight of the day: I will never forget looking at Yonseili and seeing her scream, "OMG, I'm so excited and I don't even know why!!!"  We were both pretty damn excited.  The concert was very well done and we had good seats.

Another thing that was absolutely hillarious was that she was almost squished to death by a short and not-light lady who was trying to walk up the benches/stands.  The steps are pretty steep so she really needed help.  It was just funny how she got Yonseili's help involuntarily.  She literally put her hand on Yonseili's shoulder and helped herself up.  As she went up she struggled and kept pushing down on Yonseili's back.  It was so funny I am literally laughing as I describe this event.  Yonseili just kept looking at me with a concerned/confused/shocked/smiling face and saying "ow."  All I could do was laugh.  The lady didn't care, she just needed to get up.

When Sanz said the show was almost over we decided to leave so that we wouldn't have a hard time finding a taxi and getting charged more for the ride.  We were home by 10:30pm and that was that.