No more school!

I am done with finals! I had my last (and hardest) exam this morning, History of Spain (Modern Age). My Grammar and Islamic Culture exams were last Thursday, which was nice to get two out of the way before the weekend. Friday morning my friends and I went back to Nerja; we only thought it appropriate to spend our last weekend in Spain at our favorite beach. The weather was absolutely gorgeous all weekend, for once no clouds in the sky at all. I came back Saturday evening instead of staying all the way until Sunday. I wanted to go to church one more time and then I had a study group with two friends all afternoon for our History exam. Church was pretty rough because the pastor made an announcement that it was the last Sunday for all of the foreign students and then had us all go up on stage (there were at least 20 students) and said a prayer over us. Good grief, everyone was crying. That was when it really hit me that I am almost done and will be leaving all of these amazing people that I’ve met. Basically, Sunday I did not want to think about going home.
Monday I had my Art History and POE exams, which went pretty well. That evening we visited Feras (our friend who works in the kebab place by the school) to say goodbye and eat our last kebab. Then we went to Hannigan’s and Sons for the Monday night Pub Quiz. The plan was just to stay for one drink and not participate in the pub quiz because I needed to go home and study, but funny how things work out. A few hours later, we left after an interesting 6 rounds of pub quiz, and Diana Ross made another appearance in the Music Round!
After the exam today I met up with Cassandra and Whitney to have our last churros con chocolate at Café Futbol. While we were eating Mitch and Jeff stopped by and we had to say our goodbyes to Jeff because he’s leaving to head back home this evening. I really hate saying goodbyes; the worst is going to be tomorrow night when I have to say goodbye to Whitney and Cassandra after we hang out one last time. I’m going to miss seeing and hanging out with them every day, and Iowa and Indiana aren’t exactly close to Texas. This evening we are going to the piercing/tattoo place in the Centro Comercial (the mall) near our house so Cassandra can get her tattoo. After dinner we three are going to a teteria to have tea and crepes one last time. This has certainly been a week of “last times,” we’re trying to fit all of our favorite things in before we all have to separate. I’m pretty much all packed and my bags are just barely under weight limit, yes!