The Last Hurrah....

It's crazy that this trip has come to an end.
We knew that once T'sha Ba'av would pass, that would be it. It would be all over... and the time has come.

We took our finals on Thursday, said good bye to the non-A.C.ed building that we have spent a long time in. There are mixed feelings going through my head... I am SO happy to be finished with school but if school is over, the summer is over, too.
We have been preparing for the summer for so long, what now!?

Thursday afternoon, after finals were finished, we sat in our rooms in question of what to do with ALL the free time we had! We were going to go to dinner and Choeuka at night, but it was only 2:00 an we had the entire day.
So, as our last trip we went to a museum...as if we hadn't been to enough in the last 6 weeks!

We went back to the Reina Sofia to see the Kusama exhibit, which was really fun!
Although we didn't fully get what her point was, each of the rooms were set up in different ways, so it was more hands on then just staring at "Mary and the Milk."
There was one room filled with polka-dots that I was in such awe by, that I got lost from the 'group' for a half hour. I had no idea where they had gone and looked everywhere, but then decided to give up. I figured I would find them eventually and returned back to the polka-dot room, where I stood and STARED until the room began to spin... When I finally walked out, I found Brenna + Aliza who brought me into the room that THEY had been standing in.
It's as if these rooms put you into a trance, you get sucked in!

Once we got bored, we went to Starbuck's (obviously)... I have a horrible cold, so a hot coffee would be the perfect trick, right!?
But, NO.
Only after having the coffee, did I get even more sick... between not having slept for 6 weeks and everyone else being sick, my body had fallen apart.

Dinner was really nice; the group had come together for the last time...
We met Shana's boyfriend which was super cute (he brought me and Aliza peanut m&m's because we've been craving them!)
For the first time, everyone liked dinner... although the food was Mexican and not Spanish, everyone was really happy. Oh how Aliza loved her Diet Coke.

There were no emotional goodbye speeches, no teary eyes, and no reminiscing... it still doesn't feel like we're leaving this country.
We've been here for so long, but it feels like it's just the beginning and our friendship with these people have just begun.... It's sad to think that we will never be with them again, but we will hopefully be brought together again one day, in New York, around our Friday night shabbos table!