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Published: July 28th 2008
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Hola everyone!
I have made it safely to Mexico and things are going well so far! I am a little homesick, but I just need to get used to things here. Guanajuato is a beautiful city - it´s surrounded by mountains. Hopefully I´ll be able to post some pictures soon. I haven´t done a whole lot yet, as we just had orientation today. We are taking a tour of the city tonight, which hopefully will help because I have never been anywhere more confusing! The roads are so random and just turn every which way. I had my first experience on a bus today, and that was definitely interesting. I thought for sure we were going to crash because the driver went so fast, but it was all okay. There´s an underground road system here which is pretty neat. The city is very old and in order to keep it that way there are many streets were cars are not allowed. Stop lights and neon signs are also not allowed to be in the city. It´s definitely different!
My family is very friendly but the set up is a little different than I expected, I guess different from what I was told. There are only two children living at home. A girl, Auxi, age 28 and a boy, Jesus age 22. But Jesus goes to school in a city about 30 miles away so usually he lives there. My host parents have another child but she does not live at home and she has two children ages 7 and 2. I haven´t met them yet. There is also another American student living in the house. I haven´t had much time to talk to him yet. I think he'll be leaving in a couple weeks as my host mother told me he is doing the summer program.
Well I guess that´s all for now. I just have orientation all week and some tours around the city. We go on our first excursion this weekend, in which we will be taking a 6 hour horseback ride up to a volcano. Should be interesting. Our program director told us we will be extremely sore for a few days afterwards. But it should be fun.
Will write again soon! Miss you all.
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MOM:)
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thinking of you
Hey Sara:) We are hoping that things are going well for you, thinking of you. Stephanie's mom asked about you today at work so she is anxious to keep informed also on how you are doing. I go thte lawn cut otnight, whew, tough this time. Work remains busy only 2 open beds. Lori adn Marilyn said to say hi and watch for the Mexican boys:) Hope the horseback riding will be fun, anxious to hear all about it. TAke care, missing you too..... Lov eyou, Mom:)