Blogs from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, North America - page 12

well everyonei bought a bottle of tequila yesterday for 49 pesos, which is 5 bucks. good deal but i´m sure it tastes like ass. yesterday my host mom taught me how to do laundry here. it is so old school its insane. the washing machine is in the backyard and you have to fill it with water and then drain it and then move the clothes into the spinner and then hang them to dry. its a long process. but when you hang your white clothes up the sun bleaches them and they look so damn clean which is a plus. yesterday i also went to the huge mall here called the gran plaza. it was not cool. most of the clothes were really crappy but stil about 40 bucks canadian it really didn´t make sense ... read more

this morning there was a cockroach on my floor. it was stuck on its back so it couldn´t run at me or anything so i threw my shoe at it several times until it was dead....pretty intense i know. thats the first one i´ve seen in my house at all so thats a plus. the girl that lives next door said she has a lot so i guess i lucked out. besides the massive amount of cockroaches and huge beatles, there is a ton of ants EVERYWHERE. and i´m not talkin tiny little ones, they are about a centimetre long. its pretty gross because sometimes when your walking on the sidewalk you literally have to run through so they don´t crawl on your feet. there´s also a lot of geccos or chameleons or something, i´m not ... read more

Well, today is the first day of classes and i only had one.....basic espanol, which really wasn´t even close to basic. she didn´t explaing anything and just started talking. i know the least of everyone in the class and really had no idea what was going on for most of it. i´m really gonna have to study my butt off for this one so hopefully it pays off. tomorrow is orientation so i´m not sure what we will be doing all day but it should be fun. the campus is literally only 3 buildings, one is the cafeteria with really cheap and really good food, the other is the library which is only 1 floor and nothing compared to the UofC and then there are computers on the second floor, the other building is only three ... read more

So mango is my new favorite food i´ve decided, and i think everyone would agree if they tried one here. Last night was my host mother´s birthday, so a whole bunch of their family came over. the younger girls spoke english so it was good, but then they left. so picture this, 20 people around a table all drunk and speaking spanish really fast, and then me, sitting at the end of the table having no idea what the hell is going on. it was pretty entertaining. occassionally someone would talk to me in spanish and then i would respond by butchering their language. good times. this morning i got really lost because i was reading the map completely wrong. I was trying to find the immigration place to get my student visa, and ended up ... read more

This well kept lovely area is finally on the cruise line stops. Not good news to those Americans and Canadians that have been living there for years because it was truly inexpensive, still is but that will change. The new multi-million dollar golf course that will be completed in two years has the cost of housing skyrocketing. It is such a quaint city where the old town reaches the sea and the people are very friendly. I am considering moving there myself in the near future. I spend eight days there and every day the weather was special even when it was misty in the morning. It is fairly easy to get to as Continental flys directly into the Mazatlan airport. The drive down from Texas is about seven hours. People actually know how to drive ... read more