Kasia came on Saturday, early in the morning. The welcoming comittee consisted of four Aiesecers: Daniel, Cheche, Jesus, and myself. It was great to see Kasia and she was happy to be in Maracaibo. We had pancakes for breakfast in a restaurant where the interior is supposedly German influenced (I would not have noticed). It was the same restaurant where I was taken the morning I arrived in Maracaibo.
Kasia had the good fortune of arriving to Maracaibo on a special day. The new Aiesecers were organizing a day of activites for the old Aiesecers. The newies asked if I could do something Finnish for the party. I promised to teach them some Finnish drinking songs. In this way I was kind of recruited to the team of newies an I attended the two planning meetings and I was made resposible for decorating the party venue. The theme of the day was "Superheroes" and everybody was supposed to dress up in a superheroe constume. The day was to start at Aquamania, a waterpark, where we were supposed to play games and have fun out in the open. Then, at 6 we were supposed to meet at Daniel´s place to play some drinking games.
This is what actually happened. After welcoming Kasia and eating breakfast we went to Ruge to get Kasia´s schedule etc., and then we drove to Daniel´s place. We had planned to meet at Daniel´s at 10, but we arrived at ca 11. We were the first ones to arrive. We sat around and waited for the rest of the decorating crew, which arrived at ca 12. Sandra informed us that Aquamania is closed, because one of the lifeguards was killed by a lightning the day before. People started making phone calls trying to organize a diffrent venue for the swimming and games-part of the day, but somehow there was no other place (all the discussions were in Spanish so I didn´t get all the details) so we cancelled the swimming. So, instead we were to meet at Daniel´s at five for the drinking games. At 4.45 I tried to call Cheche. He didn´t answer and was obviously sleeping (I was supposed to get a ride with him). Well, I didn´t really mind being a couple of hours late for the party, and figured that maybe the plans changed again an maybe there is no party after all. Many people had called earlied to inform that they couldn´t attend the party. So I waited for a couple of hours until I found Albert on msn and asked him what was happening. He had tried to contact the people at Daniel´s and failed, so we decided to go there and see what the -beep- was going on. I called Cheche and woke him up. He wanted to come with us. And then we waited for two hours until Alberth and Cheche decided whose car we were going to take and where we could park. Apparently there was no place in the garage in Daniel´s building and Cheche (eventually we ended up taking his car) didn´t want to leave his car out in the street. A lot of cars get stolen here. So at maybe 9 we arrived at the pary. People were drunk. In the Finnish definition of drunk. I found out that they had started drinking at five. Well, there were till some beers, and rum, and coke and drinking games left for us to enjoy. Without getting into too much detail I am proud to report that any Finnish person who comes to Maracaibo after me will have my reputation to live up to.
I was also very touched when Kasia told me that she can see that I am very well integrated in Maracaibo. According to her I am "the center of attention". Obviously I was flattered and walked around with a stupid smile on my face for two days. But it is true that I feel very comfortable with the Aiesecers and am probably therefore more confident. I hate to seem repetitious, but I have to admit, once again, that the people here are really something else. They are taking very good care of me and I am happy to notice that they like me as much as I like them.
Kasia had the good fortune of arriving to Maracaibo on a special day. The new Aiesecers were organizing a day of activites for the old Aiesecers. The newies asked if I could do something Finnish for the party. I promised to teach them some Finnish drinking songs. In this way I was kind of recruited to the team of newies an I attended the two planning meetings and I was made resposible for decorating the party venue. The theme of the day was "Superheroes" and everybody was supposed to dress up in a superheroe constume. The day was to start at Aquamania, a waterpark, where we were supposed to play games and have fun out in the open. Then, at 6 we were supposed to meet at Daniel´s place to play some drinking games.
This is what actually happened. After welcoming Kasia and eating breakfast we went to Ruge to get Kasia´s schedule etc., and then we drove to Daniel´s place. We had planned to meet at Daniel´s at 10, but we arrived at ca 11. We were the first ones to arrive. We sat around and waited for the rest of the decorating crew, which arrived at ca 12. Sandra informed us that Aquamania is closed, because one of the lifeguards was killed by a lightning the day before. People started making phone calls trying to organize a diffrent venue for the swimming and games-part of the day, but somehow there was no other place (all the discussions were in Spanish so I didn´t get all the details) so we cancelled the swimming. So, instead we were to meet at Daniel´s at five for the drinking games. At 4.45 I tried to call Cheche. He didn´t answer and was obviously sleeping (I was supposed to get a ride with him). Well, I didn´t really mind being a couple of hours late for the party, and figured that maybe the plans changed again an maybe there is no party after all. Many people had called earlied to inform that they couldn´t attend the party. So I waited for a couple of hours until I found Albert on msn and asked him what was happening. He had tried to contact the people at Daniel´s and failed, so we decided to go there and see what the -beep- was going on. I called Cheche and woke him up. He wanted to come with us. And then we waited for two hours until Alberth and Cheche decided whose car we were going to take and where we could park. Apparently there was no place in the garage in Daniel´s building and Cheche (eventually we ended up taking his car) didn´t want to leave his car out in the street. A lot of cars get stolen here. So at maybe 9 we arrived at the pary. People were drunk. In the Finnish definition of drunk. I found out that they had started drinking at five. Well, there were till some beers, and rum, and coke and drinking games left for us to enjoy. Without getting into too much detail I am proud to report that any Finnish person who comes to Maracaibo after me will have my reputation to live up to.
I was also very touched when Kasia told me that she can see that I am very well integrated in Maracaibo. According to her I am "the center of attention". Obviously I was flattered and walked around with a stupid smile on my face for two days. But it is true that I feel very comfortable with the Aiesecers and am probably therefore more confident. I hate to seem repetitious, but I have to admit, once again, that the people here are really something else. They are taking very good care of me and I am happy to notice that they like me as much as I like them.
posted by Larubia at 3:16 PM
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Yeah! Fitting in rocks!
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