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Yesterday I woke up a wonderful three hours later than the morning before. This appears to be a universal custom, waking up late on weekends. After savoring the sleep in for a extra few minutes, I abandoned the lazy attitude and started to get ready for the day. Claudia had been invited to a birthday party and it started at 2:30 in the afternoon. Claudia suggested we go to the mall because she wanted a new outfit. I agreed with her suggestion and we set out for the mall at 12:00.

We hopped from floor to floor and store to store Claudia ended up with more than just a new outfit and I ended up with less than a heavy wallet. After our seventh store Claudia looked at her watch and nearly screamed when she saw it was 2:00 p.m. We had thirty minutes to run home, change our clothes, straighten hair (claudia) and run to the pizzeria. The running was excluded from the plan, so we arrived at the pizzeria an hour later. It was a double birthday party for two girls in our class and everyone got very dressed up. There were about 22 girls in total and we all squeezed into the restuarant for pizza. Maddie, two girls from our class (Marta and Carlotta), and I shared the cheese only pizza. The rest of the girls had ham pizza I am pretty sure.

After we were done eating, the girls gave presents and took pictures to and with the birthday girls. After we were done eating and talking we walked across the street to the bus station and headed towards the Pilar to go to a discoteca. The bus was crowded with kids under the age of 18 and filled with energy. We got off and walked to a discoteca called Sala 976, we paid an entrance fee and each got a stamp so we could enter. It was drug free place only for teens under eighteen. There were flashing lights that gave off an illusion that everyone was doing the robot. Blaring music that shook your bones blasted out of the stereos. Every so often fog would blow out of a pipe above us. (Maddie and I thought this was the coolest thing about the discoteca) The music was mainly a mixture of popular american songs with a spanish salsa base added to them. A popular song was called Wiki Wiki, If you want to listen to what some of their music sounds like you can click this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8rOwk9SEnI . When this song comes on they all yell and get very excited.

As the night went on more people arrived to dance at Sala 976. There was a drink that was free with the admission ticket that was called el semaforo. It is spanish for stop light, it is called this because the drink has three different liquids in it, one red, one yellow, and one green. It was very sour but we were so thirsty we couldn't complain. We danced for about two hours and a half, and Silvia's parents gave Claudia and I a ride home. I was so tired from the long night, but we still had dinner to eat when we got home. We ate dinner at around 10:25 p.m. a big difference than what would have happened in back in the United States. Overall I thought the night was very fun and I can't wait to see what happens next weekend!