Moon Pies with Pete's Special Salsa

Our daily schedule is posted on this board in the lobby of the hotel.  We are just about the only ones here (actually, we might be the ONLY ones here).  We check the board every morning and afternoon to see whether we have one-to-ones or telephone sessions or free time, etc., for each hour.

 In the morning, the daily menu choices are posted and we choose between two starters, two main courses, and three desserts.  I gave up the main course at dinner three days ago in favor of a green salad.  Since this is our last night here, though, I will have the full dinner.

  We mark the number of our choices for each course on a grid, and then when we go to meals we pick up paper tags with the numbers of what we chose.  That way, the waiters can just look at the number lying on the table to see who gets what.  It's a great system.

Last night was our final entertainment night.  One of the Anglos writes music, and she wrote a song about the Vaughantownn experience yesterday.  One of the Spaniards, whose guitar-playing talent surfaced only Wednesday night, was drafted to accompany her while she sang it.  There were comedic skits (including two taking place in a mens restroom), and one of the Anglos gave a presentation on Southern Hospitality.  The presentation was a chance for the Spaniards to see a finished presentation before their own turns today.  As part of the presentation, HJ handed out Moon Pies to everyone - he had brought enough with him from Georgia for the four weeks of Vaughantown programs he will do this month.

After the singing, the comedy, the Moon Pies, and the jokes, it was time for Pete's Special Salsa (the dancing kind, not the eating kind).  Pete, our MC, says that he has only taken two salsa lessons in his life with his wife, with the second ending abruptly when he elbowed her in the face and broke her nose.  So he adapted salsa to suit his dancing style and ability, and taught it to us.  Of course, we don't have equal numbers of women and men, so that meant that there were a couple of couples of men dancing the salsa together.  What a riot!


Today was our last full day here at Vaughantown.  I had a grueling morning of free time, free time, one-to-one and free time, then lunch.  During one of my free times I walked down the street to see the stork nest being built on a church tower nearby.  Yesterday I saw the storks flying around, bringing sticks to the nest.  They are HUGE (the storks, not the sticks)! 

                            The stork nest.  It appears that mommy stork is in residence, too!

I also stopped by the store to pick up some more Diet Coke for the road.  I love seeing foreign versions of familiar products!  Here is one you will definitely recognize, though I'm sure you haven't seen ham flavor at home before.

Tonight we played trivia after dinner, then Jaime wanted me to tell him about geocaching. He wants to take his little boy, who is five, out to try it, and he was surprised that there are actually geocaches in his own town.  He will be downloading a geocaching phone app before he goes home tomorrow, I bet.

Even though we check out of the hotel at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, we will still have a set of one-to-ones, a graduation ceremony, and lunch before we go.  The bus will pull out at about 3:00 p.m. and I will wait here for Jorge to arrive for part 2 of my trip!