Bitter/Sweet

Olga left yesterday... very sad. We spent the last week having people at the house almost every night, spending time at the beach, and shopping in the medina. We had a big going away party Tuesday night at the house and a ton of people showed up. We ended up going to the beach and having a huge bonfire and playing the samba drums. Olga was supposed to leave wednesday evening, but she decided on wednesday to wait until thursday because she wasn't ready to go. We spend the day shopping in the medina and then hicham and i made her a going away present by decorating glass schepp's tonic bottles and putting letters inside. We spent the night sitting around and practicing our song "wonderful de chez wonderful," which we now have perfected. Hicham's birthday was at midnight, so Olga took him up to the roof and then when they came back down we surprised him by singing happy birthday in 5 different languages with candles, and then we gave him the bow and arrow toy that we made him. Then, we made a painting, where each person painted another person. It ended up being awesome and we now have it on the ceiling of our living room.

Thursday morning, Olga gave us all small gifts and letters to remember her by and we saw her off to the bus. Hicham, Caitie, and I watched the bus drive away... it was very emotional for me. Olga was the best friend I had here. She helped me through a lot and I always had so much fun with her. Things aren't going to be the same here without her.

I spent the rest of the day with hicham to celebrate his birthday. I'm starting to really, really like him, which is great, but also sucks because I don't have that much more time here. I guess I just have to enjoy the time I do have.

So basically, the past few days have been very bitter/sweet. I really miss Olga already, but everything here has been so perfect and I'm just enjoying myself so much. I love it here! I never want to leave...