Yay! I'm finally caught up on my blogs! It kind of took forever to put up the Culebra blog. That was just a busy, busy time for me! I'm sure the next couple of weeks will be as well since that's all I have left, but I'm going to try and keep caught up for you guys! It's so crazy that I'm almost in the single digits on days that I have left here. I know I'm really going to miss it but I'm just so homesick at this point. It feels like I'm never getting off this island though. I know that I only have 11 days left before I leave, but it doesn't feel like it. I know I have a lot to do though before I leave. I have to do laundry next week and then start packing. The packing probably won't start happening until about 3 or 4 days beforehand though. I'm always so bad at that. But I do need to make sure that I don't forget anything. I haven't really expanded too much since getting here though, so I don't think that should be too hard. I'm actually more worried about finding everything again once I'm back home. Especially all of my small, Wiccan stuff. Although if I do forget to bring something to school I'm only an hour and 20 minutes away so I can easily just make a list of what I forgot and drive back home.
But onto the real reason for this blog: Danny took me to some caves today in Arecibo. Maria was supposed to come with us as well but she woke up not feeling well so we had to leave without her. Hopefully she'll get to go another time. I mean she does actually live here. Although I haven't done a lot of things in Wisconsin. I really want to change that though. Coming here has cemented the wanderlust in me. But the caves were seriously so cool! There were three that we saw: a really small one where we met before the tour, the Bright Cave, and the Window Cave. The tour was in almost half Spanish/half English. I say that because he'd explain everything in Spanish and then in English, but when he translated to English, he didn't translate everything. It was cool being able to understand almost everything that was being said. I even had to translate for someone in the very beginning because the guide was kind of joking around with us and wasn't translating it to English. And I even helped the lady that I translated for again when she was asking about the bioluminescent bay. They were trying to go to Fajardo but that one was full so I told her about the one in Lajas. She was really grateful. I just love that I am finally confident enough with my Spanish to say that I'm bilingual. I'm really going to miss all of the Spanish that I'm surrounded with.
So I don't really have that much else to talk about in this blog. The caves were pretty straight forward. The pictures down below have captions on them that will tell you pretty much everything that you need to know. Sorry for the blurry pictures. I don't think there was really enough light to get a very clear picture. Plus it was kind of hard to see with the helmet. I'm also probably going to add more later into the "Puerto Rican Photos' section after Danny uploads his pictures. I'm sure I'll want to steal some. Other than that, I'd just have to say that the Window Cave was the best out of all of them. The view was absolutely amazing! I had seen it on Instagram before but didn't expect to actually go there! But I did, and it was so worth it!
But onto the real reason for this blog: Danny took me to some caves today in Arecibo. Maria was supposed to come with us as well but she woke up not feeling well so we had to leave without her. Hopefully she'll get to go another time. I mean she does actually live here. Although I haven't done a lot of things in Wisconsin. I really want to change that though. Coming here has cemented the wanderlust in me. But the caves were seriously so cool! There were three that we saw: a really small one where we met before the tour, the Bright Cave, and the Window Cave. The tour was in almost half Spanish/half English. I say that because he'd explain everything in Spanish and then in English, but when he translated to English, he didn't translate everything. It was cool being able to understand almost everything that was being said. I even had to translate for someone in the very beginning because the guide was kind of joking around with us and wasn't translating it to English. And I even helped the lady that I translated for again when she was asking about the bioluminescent bay. They were trying to go to Fajardo but that one was full so I told her about the one in Lajas. She was really grateful. I just love that I am finally confident enough with my Spanish to say that I'm bilingual. I'm really going to miss all of the Spanish that I'm surrounded with.
So I don't really have that much else to talk about in this blog. The caves were pretty straight forward. The pictures down below have captions on them that will tell you pretty much everything that you need to know. Sorry for the blurry pictures. I don't think there was really enough light to get a very clear picture. Plus it was kind of hard to see with the helmet. I'm also probably going to add more later into the "Puerto Rican Photos' section after Danny uploads his pictures. I'm sure I'll want to steal some. Other than that, I'd just have to say that the Window Cave was the best out of all of them. The view was absolutely amazing! I had seen it on Instagram before but didn't expect to actually go there! But I did, and it was so worth it!