Last Day of School...

well, for a while anyhow. School was never this fun in the old days.
We were late getting around to breakfast again so we took our teachers out for donuts and coffee at the donut shop. Had some great conversation over coffees and decided to go tour La Iglesia y Convento de Las Capuchinas. This is a fascinating place, which I will try to tell you more about later on. The 4 of us spent over an hour touring Las Capuchinas and then decided we needed a refreshment break.
We walked down the street to our favorite Pupuso place and spent an hour or two in uproarious laughter over my Spanish, Chiqui's English, and everything else we could think of. It was just one of those days when everything was funny. I got Saira to teach me how to do that crossing yourself thing that all Catholics do all the time. I've always been intrigued by the people who cross themselves when passing a church or a cemetary, before and after eating, and on any other occasion which might seem like a good time for it. But I've never been able to quite catch how it all works. Saira is a devout Catholic and crosses herself all the time, so I knew she could teach me the technique, but I was afraid she would be offended by the whole thing. NOT! She was practically rolling on the floor as I practiced trying to get it straight, whether to cross to the left or right breast first (it's the left) and how close to the navel to come for the bottom part. The man at the next table was watching and listening in and I was afraid he might not like it that we were having so much fun. Saira had explained about saying "en el nombre del Padre, el Hijo y el Espirito Santo." When I asked her what happened to la Madre Maria, I thought the poor man was going to wet his pants! And when we discussed that Maria must be the most important part of the thing because every single Catholic girl gets Maria as part of her names, he was laughing so hard that I feared for his health. He left shortly thereafter, still laughing, so hopefully he wasn't too offended.
I think I got a great picture of Gene, Saira and Chiqui sharing a banana licuado (that's refresco for you folks in C.R; smoothie for you guys in the U.S.)! If it turns out any good, I will post the photo with this.