Parillada at night and under the rain

All day I worked on my presentation.  Of course I had breakfast which was: boiled egg, arepa colombiana, and hot chocolate.  Joaquin left at about 10:30 to the school so that he could go with the Donald guy for a hike to the Pichincha.  Apparently a girl from Germany, Florentina, slowed them down and therefore they did not get very far.  By the way, Florentina is the same girl that volunteered at the same place we did and who, as my gut told me, turned out to be not so nice.   But anyway, the rest of the day wasn’t too exciting, and I had to decline my host family’s invitation to go out and get the tent, chairs and table for tonight’s parrillada so that I could work on my presentation.

They got back from getting the tent and went out again to get all the meat.  When they came back from that I helped Carlos put the tent together.  This tent was lent to him by his cousin I think and therefore he wasn’t sure how to put it together.  In the end we were able to get it together with our amazing teamwork.

We had a quick and light lunch, sandwiches, so that we weren’t too full for dinner.  At around 6ish Joaquin was home already and Yonseili came over so that we could all set up and take everything up to the terrace.  Ah yes, I forgot to say that we had our parrillada up at the terrace of my house.  We decorated the tent with balloons, strings of confetti and Christmas lights that were a bit tangled but nonetheless all looked well.  When we started our parrillada it was not raining and throughout the rest of the night it was sprinkling, then raining, then sprinkling again.  The best part was that we didn’t give in to the weather and we all stayed up on the terrace on a beautiful night under the rain in good company.  Carlos was in charge of the meat, Adriana gave him spoonfuls of the food while he cooked, Juan Jose was drawing in his notebook.  I will really miss the Polit Family.  Then they surprised Yonseili and me with two cool sweaters… they were LIGA sweaters!  They said it was with mucho cariño.  When they asked Yonseili to bring the wine, she came upstairs and said that maybe that should use that wine for a better occasion but they said it was a very special occasion.  That meant a lot.  You see, I also forgot to mention that the point of tonight’s cookout was kind of like a goodbye thing since we only have 9 days left.  Yonseili and I can truly say that just as we are bummed to leave them, the Polit family is really sad to see us leave.  They are now saying things like how they will miss our loud laughs at night.  December 21^st will be a bitter sweet day.

Highlight of the day:  De ley, the parrillada.  Yonseili and I couldn’t help but get a little melancholic.