Blogs from Mexico, North America - page 757

(I promise you won't be getting updates this often... it's just that a lot has happened in the first week here, and I took lots of photos I wanted to post before I forget about them.) Pues, ¿dónde empezar? Saturday 7/22 Jorge picked me up at my hotel (after several--about 6-- attempts at getting a hold of me). He's really nice, super lindo, and very very eager to help out an extranjera (foreigner) who has no idea how to go about finding an apartment in this city. It was great because we drove over to campus, he took me up and down some of the streets, showed me different campus buildings... how cool is this?!: two of their campus buildings have nicknames like licuadora and servilleta because they look like a blender and napkin holder, respectively. ... read more

I survived a WET Monday back at school!! It started raining last night while I was walking home and was still raining when I woke up this morning. Now it's 2:30pm and it just stopped raining!! Made for an interesting walk to school this morning.... There were about 10 of us Americans all walking along the busy Avenida Morelos squealing and throwing our bodies against the wall to protect our clothes from the gallons of water being splashed at us from the bus drivers who get enjoyment from our pain. But at least we were all drowning in our misery together!! If I haven´t explained it before, every week I will have a new teacher and a new class set-up, so it's kind of exciting to check the master list on Mondays to see where I've ... read more

right.....my last day has unfortunatly arrived.... spent 3 days in Tulum..at the weary traveler.....hmm...how can i put it...NOT the nicest plays ive stayed at but...loads and loads of nice people so they mad me stay.... more or less just pomms and israeliens... had a great time.. me and this american guy desided to sneak in to the ruins...haha that was a bit tricky i tell ya...walked along the beach and then it started to get a bit rocky,..on ya sara for taking your yellow flipflops for a hike on sharp rocks..!!!! danger danger..!!! haha all good.....we made it...after that we had to walk a bit through i pretty hot and sticky rainforest..sweatin like pigs again..and we managed to get through that aswell....YEAY.. saw this footpath and this american couple lookin funny at us when we came ... read more

11hrs and some puke later, I arrive in San Cristobal as sick as a dog. Vomiting all over myself half way through the longest bus ride I've taken yet was only the beginning. Not much fun trying to stop yourself from puking for 6hrs whilst still covered in the 1st lot of puke, but I managed. Had to catch up with myself for an hour before I could cross the road from the bus station to the nearest hotel, where I lay all day and puked some more. The next day was similar, I don't know if it's a good thing that I enjoyed the meal so much that did this to me. Even in my deepest darkest illest moments (they were to come), I still had to say, 'damn that was a tasty meal', perhaps ... read more

Wow...I feel like I have a million things to say! And we'll see how well they come out.... You see, the more I try to speak Spanish, the less I can speak English. The words get all jumbled up in my mouth and then come out in a rather frightening way! So now I can't speak Spanish well, nor can I speak English well. Hmph! I finished up my first week of classes on Friday! I can hardly believe how fast the week went, although every day felt like one of those long "Mexico days." After class and comida I usually end up in the zócalo or back at the school or somewhere doing something. There never seems to be a dull moment here. I've bonded a lot with my roomie Ashley this week, so it'll ... read more