wow yesterday was so sad :( the students left asa to return to georgia or china or spain or new york or 30 minutes away to san francisco. i woke up at 9:30 and went to the office at 10 only to be told that we had our meeting at 11. i have been slower at reading our agendas until last minute... so then we just hung around and had lunch at 12 before going to the 12:30 pre-excursion meeting. i had so much food including a small slice of cheese pizza, a greek sandwich on whole wheat, and a chunk of cake. mallory, chris, danielle and i circled the meeting points with yellow markers and then we chatted it up. my right eye was bugging so i only put my left contact in and wore my raybans to cover up my golom-like appearance. chris and i were the bus leaders of bus 2. we had all of the italian kids, most of the spanish girls, the french kids and some of the american kids. we went to alamo square to see the painted ladies (we took group photos, danielle/jean david/jeremy did a crab dance, and i had to take a picture with the infamous duo too!), down haight street where i devoured a pb&j sandwich, banana, apple and mixed berry smoothie from mcd over a few hours, through golden gate park to see the various museums and the pacific ocean (i want to eat at the cliff house - which has lit up six times and been rebuilt just as many times). we took a peak at land's end and then went through presidio park to see the golden gate bridge. i got a photo with edgar :) "eh-hhelen esme Helen" (hi my name is helen in arabic - or something). then we got back on the bus to go to north beach for dinner. willem, sarah, mary, natalie, chris, danielle, mallory, keara and i went to an italian place, capp's family italian dinner. i ordered the eggplant with mozzarella. we had soup and salad and bread - gluttony at it's best. then we got onto the bus near washington square park (totally not as great as the one in new york city) to head back to foothill. i got a few last pictures with some of my favorites, although i guess i'm not supposed to have any.
we got back around 9:48 pm and i got into my room. my girls were so quiet finishing packing so i went to natalie's room after al texted half an hour later. sarah busted us half an hour after that and i went back to my room to do nothing until the slide show... which wasn't loading. al distributed the superlatives instead. i was so happy maria won best smile and mia won best dancer. hugs and smiles all around. at 12, we had check in and i distributed the group photo. i had my girls sign mine and they all had everyone else sign theirs. i also had the roommates write cards to each other. it was super cute. at 12:30, i had circle duty and prevented the kids from going out of the bounds. john kept me company until eddie shooed him away. around 1:30ish, al and i went to the parking lot to hang out with the smokers. sali was up there and i hated saying bye to her, she was one of the ones who was always smiling, which was so nice to see. al left after 20 minutes but left his blanket, clif came for a few minutes and left, and then jean david and jeremy came and started a water fight. they were about to splash me with cold water until i guess when i looked up innocently, they changed their minds - thank goodness. then they pretended to steal my ipod but gave it back because i complained i would be too bored if they took it. willem came and left, and at 3, mallory came to relieve my duty since willem thought it was too effing cold for a sick person to be perched in the middle of the sidewalk huddled like a homeless person in a blanket (not that i'm complaining...). i went to the rec room and watched a bit of gi joe, but mostly hung out with jean david and jeremy. jd saw i was cold so he gave me his pseudo-varsity jacket to wear, which was so nice because when he left i tried to give it back but he insisted i wear it. at one point, they had me as the monkey in the middle with the empty water jug as a soccer ball. they were SO loud and wouldn't stop until clifton came. we moved inside. after the movie ended, the room cleared out and i restarted it since i had never seen it. clif and i watched until pietro, jess, sam, and a few others joined us. artur started playing the piano too loudly and stopped when we hushed him. jd and jeremy came up from behind and covered me with a sheet, which i also used as a blanket. around 4, i started to sneeze so i thought it was best to go to sleep. i wanted to watch the sunrise with sam, but i passed out. 5:30, i was awoken by the cab company there to pick up lu and qi. at 7, i was awoken by hustling girls, but i'm glad i got to say bye to alejandra, ane and ana. then i went back to bed until now. i feel better after sleeping, but i'm sad i didn't get to say bye to the rest of my girls :(
today is going to be such a long day.
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