Basque"t" filled SUMMER!!!: Hmmm...its been awhile

So i am definalty so sorry that it has taken me so long to write... i have been quite busy with school...sleep and fiestas!!! eheheeh... so now i can´t exactly write for the day to day basis... but you want to know what i have been doing. WEll last saturday... the 9th was the begginnig of BIG WEEK!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.... so... at night time first we went out to watch the fire works!! they were oh so beautiful!! Then we (me, maite, patri,miren and others) went to the beach to meet up with the rest of the friends... there we listend to music... cuz a band was playing not to far away... and well ofcourse they were drinking that is what all the kuadrillas do at like midnight... then we got up walked around to see the things that were going on... and they had like this huge carnival... adn to me it was very funny because it was very american :)!! Then we went to go dancing like bars... but his one street was so incredibly full of people it was rediculous... so then we went to the disco and danced there... and we got home at about 4 o´clock in the morning... oh boy!!! hahaha.... on sunday we just kind of hung out at the beach with the friends and stuff like that.
So i have to say that on sunday night... before i went to bed... i was praying that God would... help me put away some of my shyness and that i wouldn´t be afraid to speak to maite´s friends in spanish or even in english... and that i would just be myself... and i just really prayed tha the would give me opportunity so that i could really be there in the sense that i was serving him by building relationships with these girls... and monday came...and it was perfect in it´s own way. First off class wasa lot of fun an di was more outgoing then i had been before. then i got to be apart of something that probably no american... let alone foreigner as ever been able to be apart of before. I joined maite´s kuadrilla in the "boat"competition. where we had to build our own "boat" and then row it from the harbor to the beach. and before we did that we had this huge lunch that was like with all the kuadrillas and there were like over 1000 people there... and i had never seen such a huge pot cooking food.... it was about the size of the center circle on a basketball court... it was HUGE!!! so anyways... we ate lunch... then went back to our boats... fixed them up a little then got in them and the GUN went off... and it was time to row!!! it was so funny to see all the boats that people created... and we were trying to get out of the harbor and it was so funny cuz i could have sworn we were never going to make it! but we has like these bottle of ketchup and mustard that we would squirt at other people and splashing water in everyones face! it was so great... and the boys... friends of maite´s kuadrilla were always tring to get on our boat and break it... so it was funny always trying to push them off... and then we would try to flip there boat... and everyonew as out to break everyonelses boat... and we finally tipped over the boys boat... and well eventually bit by bit our boat split in half... it was great!!! and so we just swam the pieces to shore.... and what would have take us like 15 minuts to swim... to us 1 hour and a half at least to get the boat to the beach ;)!!! Being apart of this competition got me a lot closer to maite´s friends it was really great!
that night i got to hang out with Natalie a girl who was an intern with summer in the USA and i met her this year... she was leavin the next day so we hung out...we talked about what it was like beingin san sebastian... and the difficulties and the beauty of it... it was really fun... and i had felt just so much lighter.. being with her and i know also just really feeling God´s presence... then we watched the fire works again... oh my goodness... they always said that the fireworks in Donostia were so much better... and after the first night i wasn´t so sure... but that night of fire works... there was not dought about it... i litterally while watching them was thinkin about how i was going to explain it on here... i really wanted all of you to be there... because they were really Beatiful... just sittin on the beach watching fire works... nothing like it!!! natalie and i went to the beach to say hello to maite´s kuadrilla and then we hung out with maite and miren... and then split cuz i was tired andhad class in the morning!!! and that was my perfect day :)!