Piura 7 Despedida

July 24th, 2008 Piura, Peru

Piura 7 Despedida

A despedida is a going away party and I will probably be attending several of these over the next few weeks. Volunteers typically spend most of their time with the volunteers that live in their same department. Therefore it is tradition for the other volunteers in that region to throw a despedida for the outgoing volunteer class. We rented a retreat center in the department capital and had a bit of bbq / pool party. Everyone pretty much just hung out around the pool, playing pool games here and there. After dinner we put on a little music and started dancing a bit because it was still way to early to head to the club. Around 11pm we headed out to the club where we partied one last time as a group until around 2:30am, which is actually an early night for us. It was the last time I will probably see alot of folks. Although there are several volunteers I only see maybe once a month, everyone develops strong relationships quickly because we are going through the same things.