Despedida: Translation for an excuse to go out and party

The last day Mike, Freddy, and I were at the house together we decided it was a good idea to celebrate the end of the year by having drinks and singing karaoke at the Somoteño (that’s the place Callie and I had won the karaoke contest the week before). Freddy’s wife Amelia was up for the week visiting and she is always down to party! Only a couple of my Fabretto coworkers made it out, but we made the best of it. I once again sang karaoke, this time “Hotel California” per the Nicas request (it’s one of the few songs they can recognize in English) and I did ok since it complimented my natural alto voice. At the end of the competition, all the competitors go up on stage and the audience votes by applause for their favorite. I was the ONLY one who went up there…no one wanted to take me on! I was waiting up there with the MC named Leo and I was dancing around “yay I won I won!” and then the owner basically saw that it was me and pulled a fast one. I was told the competition was no more and they were going to raffle off the 6-pack that I CLEARY WON! It was lame, I was looking forward to free beer. I guess the owner has decided to impose a “gringo rule” since Callie and I swept the “competition” the previous week. Before we left I wrote an angry note to the owner, it made me feel better. The night turned around in my favor when they announced another dance competition. Some random Nica guy asked me to dance and even though I knew he’d be a horrible dancer, I had some beer to win! We only went up against my coworker Sonia and her partner, another random guy. They were WAY better than my horrible partner and I, but guess what winning card I hold? Oh yeah, I’m white with blonde hair and blue eyes. DING DING DING, Winner by default! Luckily they didn’t raffle off that 6-pack this time and I got 3 beers (I had to share with my crappy partner). The highlight of my night was dancing with Don Freddy…I’m sure about everyone I saw when I was home got a chance to have this video shoved in their face by me. I'll try to post it online soon, I can't do it at Fabretto because video feed is blocked :(

Two days later I hopped a bus to Managua, stayed the night at the Backpacker’s Inn for 8 bucks close to the PC Office and made my way home to Sac Town! Luckily a cool dude named Jose who was staying in the same hostel room was on the same flight as me so we shared a cab to the airport and he was really nice and paid for me. Thanks Jose!

Mike with our coworkers Fatima and Sonia

The only two competitors in the dance competition!

Amelia, Freddy's wife, is always down for a good time at the bar!

Me singing "Hotel California"... I was probably sharp

I'm probably singing right here, very normal for me to break into song whenever.

Baile! Baile!

Don Freddy and I take a break from dancing.

Finally a good picture of Mike and I!