It had to come sometime

Well i know that it has been a while since my last post, but there is a good reason. I was pretty sick from around tuesday of last week til monday this week. Im not exactly sure what it was (most likely some form of parasite from the food or the water), but i saw it coming. It was seriously a countdown of when it would happen, mostly because almost everybody else in our program has gotten it. Well needless to say it was not fun, and was in bed for the entire weekend while everyone else got to go out and have fun. But it is done and over with and shouldnt have to worry about it anymore because now i am used to the food and water here.
On another note, I did go out on thursday night even if i was a little sick. I had to check out this club. Its called club racing. It is actually quite similar to clubs in the states. It had a racing theme and was jammed full of people. It turned out to be a really fun night with lots of dancing and singing to the few american songs they played. It was interesting though, because a couple venezuelan friends had to try really hard to get into the club. In a country where i think a lot of people look the same, there is a good deal of racism here. The clubs prefer to let in people that are lighter skinned( obviously i had no problem) and are much more picky about letting in those who are darker skinned. Its crazy to hear and for me its hard to tell the difference. As much as some people here do not like americans, they try pretty hard to be like them. A classic case was when my friend tim was at a mcdonalds(by the way, not nearly as good in the U.S. and also REALLY expensive here) and some venezuelan uttered some words as he was leaving about him being a stupid american or something along those lines. But it was so ironic because the guy said that while in a mcdonalds. How much more american can you get? Too crazy.
Another off topic random fact, to fill up a tank of gas here it costs around 3 dollars their currency. That turns out to be around 50 cents american dollars. This is why taxi drivers here make some big money. But it does confuse me because with all of Venezuela's abundance of oil, they still find themselves in an energy crisis. Sometimes the logic here makes no senese...
But on a lighter note, this weekend is Carnival here, which means lots of drunk people in the street...so i will be heading to the beach with some friends for around 4 days. I will be sure to take lots of pictures and soak up the rays for all of you that are suffering in the snow and cold back in the states :)