Tuesday... Fish!

Even though class didn't start till late today, I was so tired. Michelle was dropped off at our house early to have breakfast with us and take the city bus to school since her buddy had to go to work. We listened to a class on forestry, which we will get to see tomorrow, but then hopped on the bus to take a look at the fishing industry. We could smell the El Golfo plant from far away, and it was so strong once we got off the bus. I didn't really mind though because I just breathed through my nose and took pictures of the crazy amounts of seagulls circling outside. Everyone ran for cover so they didn't get dropped on, then we went inside for a presentation of the company. The tour afterward was somewhat interesting and cleaner that I would have expected, and we saw a lot of dead fish get fileted at speeds that would have had my fingers cut off. The bus took us to a fishing boat afterwards, where we got to see them working and the seagulls try to steal what they could every time they pulled up a load of fresh fish. Another long day, we took the bus back to UDD.

Yolanda met us back there and we went with her brother, Jorge, and her mom back to get ice cream. Stuffed from two lunches that day, I had only coffee (which turned out to be complicated because they poured me a full-to-the-brim cup of hot coffee and left me no room to put my Nescafe into, so I was very confused and my family only made it more confusing. We got a good laugh out of it though). We went back to change out of our fishy-smelling clothes and headed to a market downtown. I didn't find anything there, but Ify did. We came back to the house, then waited for Michelle's buddy to come (she came about a half hour late while we sat on the couch waiting, and then watching the inaugeration of Obama on some of the channels we found). We went to our host family dinner, which was pretty nice but I couldn't eat too much. I had empanadas (bite-sized), steak, some tomatos from the salads, and a sopapilla. I skipped desert. I have eaten way too much today. We stuck around for some time afterward so I floated around to talk to people, then came home early to stay in for the night with Ify so I could catch up on here and get some sleep. Tomorrow we are visiting the forestry industry and going dancing, then we will be leaving for Pucon on Thursday.