We went to Cumana. So Kasia and I spent easter with the family of my room mate. We left Maracaibo on Wednesday evening. I went to the bus station at 4 to see if we could get tickets (Kasia and I went to the bus station a week before to ask for tickets and they told us we could buy tickets one hour before) and when I arrived to the counter the guy said that all buses are full. I explained that last week we asked and blablabla, he said that he has one ticket for me. I said I need two cause I am traveling with a friend. He had two. I asked for the price and he said 110 000, which was 20 000 more than what they said the week before. Well, none of this was really surprising. What was unexpected though was that I met two foreigners at the station. A girl from England who is workin in venezuela and was looking for a ticket to get back to the place where she is working the same evening. And then there was a German guy who had been working as a teacher in Colombia and was now traveling in South America before returning to Germany. It was kind of refreshing to just sit there and watch people. And wait, and wait and wait.

The busride to Cumana took 20 hours. In Cumana we were taken to the beach straight away. Ranmarys´s family has a weekendhouse at the beach and we spent all three nights there. One evening I went to church with Kasia and one night we went fishing (although fortunately we didn´t catch any fish).

So now we´re back in Maracaibo and there will be no more long weekends for us to travel. Sigh. I´m still undecided about what to do next fall. I think I´ll take Emily´s advice and concentrate on finishing my studies but...there are different ways to go about that as well. I´ll keep you informed.