Evan Billingsley I have a job for you, and I will explain later. So I suppose I had my first semi-crazy night last night. Most of us study abroad students went to a huge fiesta called Palmares. I do believe Palmares is also a town, but maybe is only known for its parties. When we first got there my initial thought was, is this a fair? But no, it was only similar to one on the outside. As we walked we noticed loud music coming from one specific direction, and so of course we headed towards it. It turned out to be three huge structures that were concealed to the public except for its dancing balconies and large entrance with scanty girls dancing seductively. We of course entered to find a huge dance floor just waiting to be used. The place we entered was only one of the three possible structures, and ours wasn't even the largest. It was early when we got there but very soon the crowd made its way in and the dancing began. Right after I started dancing myself I looked up on stage to find two young ladies dancing Costa Rican salsa-ish style on stage. This is a new one for me, being from Arkansas, and so I suppose I just stared in humor for a while. As the night progressed more dancers appeared, all wearing interesting costumes. But the highlight of the night’s stage performance for me was when the silver and fire statue man appeared. I looked up on stage and out of nowhere came Evan Billingsley's twin. I have never seen anyone dance so similarly to Evan in my entire life and the best part was that he was covered from head to toe in some sort of silver body paint, and was holding a disco ball with fire protruding from his hands. He came out on stage in a position similar to the statue of the thinking man, and then slowly began to disperse from his form and dance....just like evan but more slowly and suavely perhaps. But after the silver man it was time to go so we all met outside and shuffled onto the bus. Unfortunately while doing a role call to make sure no one was left behind with a couple thousand aroused Latinos and a man covered in silver spitting fire, someone was missing. So we ended up spending over an hour searching for a lost girl in crowds of thousands. We were all pretty worried though because of the warnings we had gotten about robbery and other crimes. When we finally found her we made the trek back to San Jose and ended getting there around 4:30 or 5 in the morning. Not exactly a safe picture because we all had to wait on a street corner to hail down a cab to get back to our host homes at kind of a bad time at night to be doing so. Oh well, we made it home safely, and the cab fare was only about a dollar. I also swear though that I heard a monkey outside of our house last night early in the morning. It was most likely just a bird, but I've never heard an animal make such noises and the only thing I could connect them to was perhaps a monkey. Alrighty well I'm going to go ahead and stop here for now.
Two of the dancers.
The structures.
Don't worry, I hadn't had anything to drink and no I don't have pink eye here.
Meg and Nicole.
These are the lights that were outside.
The man of fire. Oh by the way he was wearing angel wings too.
It's Evan!
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Evan, I think you need to change your ls avatar.
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