Amiga! Amiga!

On the day of the 6th, I spend most of the day working--greeting flights and showing them the ropes, facilitating meals, carrying luggage, etc. There were two flights that got to the hotel around nine thirty pm and I helped facilitate their late dinner by making sure the students knew where to go and making sure everything was running smoothly and other things of the like. Apparently, I looked important and somewhat in charge becuase the hotel staff began coming to me to ask me various questions--not really a big deal. One woman in particular (I still don't know her name, haha) kept coming up to me and asking me if I was hungry. I politely explained to her that I had eaten dinner earlier with some of the other students. "ok ok" she said and walked away. 5 minutes later she came back to offer me a Coke. "No thanks". This woman has somewhat taken me under her wing, she makes sure that I have everything I could possibly need. For example, the next day after my nap, I was walking around the grounds and I happended to walk by her, it was almost 1 in the afternoon and she asked me if I had eaten any lunch. "Not yet," I said and she told me to follow her. She took me to the bakery and offered me some bread and a postre *dessert*. I explained to her that I wasn't really hungry and I was going to wait on some friends before I ate. "Oh, ok." Then she went up stairs and so I just started walking again...a few seconds later she came running "amiga! amiga!." I turned around and she handed me a bottle of water, telling me that I needed to drink it, I told her thanks and continued on my journey. Well, little things like this have kept happening between me and this lady and it is really sweet how she tries to take care of me. Well...TODAY, Caleb, Becca and I were out putting up some signs for seminars that will be going on tonight and I was walking through the plaza and the lady came up to me again. She gave me a gift--it's a little key ring with a doll on it. She told me thanks for all of the work I'm doing and kissed my cheek. It was so sweet. That is probably the best present I've ever been given in a foreign country. :-) Good times.