Midservice- Bahía and Canoa

so we had midservice, where everyone gets togehter for 2 days and talks about experiences and sahres good lesson ideas. it was on the beach at a place called canoa.

again, the coast is a completely different contry. i really prefer the sierra. went out last night inbahía, and since alexis and i have no clue anything about the town, wejust told the cabbie to drive towards downtown (there are four girls, 3world teach, that we were staying with in bahía, and apparently there hasbeen all thgis drama and cat fights the past week or so, so we had toescape the tension) (i couldnt imagine who thought it owuld be good toplace 3 girls together). on the way to downtown we saw this big gatheringof people at what looked like a resturant so we decided to get off there.it turned out to be this big bingo thing. like 50 poeple playing outsideof this person´s house. we wanted to get in, but it was very seriousbingo, so we decided against it. like litereally, no one was saying aword, just with their head down at their card, and the guy was rapidfiring numbers. they werent messing around. like one block up, outide otfa mini mart there was a grup of 20 people playing bingo. maybe wednesdaynight is bingo night in bahía. we saw some people eating in therestaurant, so we stopped in. it was more just like a few wood tables anda kitchen, and then the people´s house. anyway, there was no menu at the "restaurant". however, we got 4 cheese empanadas, a fried plantain, and 4cups of coke all for $1. i feel like u just kind of ask for wraht u want,and then they charge u a dollar, becuas ei dont know how 9 items become adollar. it was really good tho. unfortuantely, bahía was pretty tapped outwedneday. we went to anothe resturant and they had one beer left, and thenthe restauarant across the street had no beers left, so we headed back. itwas kind of cool to see another small town, with everyone playing bingotogether, etc. cities and small towns both have their advantages. ibarrais great, becuase it is really stimulating, being a city, tehre is tons todo, lots of activities, events, but its also nice going to the small townsto pick up more local flavor, less metropolitan.

in canoa now..
woke up at 545a to t ake an eraly morning swim (6:15-8:00).it was really cool becuase the air was cold but the water was REAllywarm. from 8pm-1pm we had programming where we just did reflection likethings bullshit . had some good pasta with shrimp ( the shrimp here isreally small, and much tastier, and less fluffy. my main knock on shrimphas laways bveen a lack of taste, but here it does. could help that itscaught fresh daily) for lunch, and then hitthe beach at 2. (riding the waves!) i´m so proud of myself that i feel100% comfortable out there in teh ocean. its a big big accomplishment..around 4:18pm i believe i went for arun. ran for an hour down and back up teh beach barefoot . it was a nicerun (the sand is really cpm`pact from the tides) (and beautiful and touse the ecua word tranquilo) however, i thinkim´going to be very sore tommorow becuase i never run barefoot, much more,for 63 minutes.