Finally adjusting and trying new things

Lunch: Don't know exactly what each thing is called, but the soup has rice, carrots, and some little circle things that I don't know the name of but are good. And the plate on the right is a spicy chicken and onion something. 

Breakfast: fruit bowl containing apples, pears, bananas, and cantaloupe. And a type of toasted sandwich thing with frijoles, cheese and a homemade sauce. Something you get used to here is having frijoles added in almost any and everything, including eggs.  

Pretty house I saw walking to school.

Looking into the colony where I live. Colonia Arboledas.

Fancy house. And take notice of the gate- Every single house where I live, and most houses around here if not all (minus the ones in the gated SUPER wealthy community) have a gate that surrounds the front of the house and at night, the people put their car inside the gate. It's kinda cool.

Now that all of the pictures are done with and out of the way, I can write. I don't even remember what I wrote about last, all of the days seem to run together when you do the same things every day. On Tuesday I had class as per usual and nothing really exciting happened. School is school. Although, on the bus ride home, I didn't press the "it's my stop" button quick enough so the bus flew by where I was supposed to get off and I ended up having to walk like a quarter mile back and then cross the bridge like normal. Now I know that those buttons actually mean something and if you don't press it in time, say hello to walking. After that whole fiasco, I didn't feel like doing homework so I literally just sat in my bed the rest of the night, went online, watched the Big Bang Theory with spanish subtitles, and went to bed. On Wednesday I did homework pretty much all day and then went to visit 2 of my friends - Amelie and Julia- at school for a little bit, then I walked back home and continued the homework. Today I had salsa class, which is super fun and quite a workout if you ask me! We learned more turn moves that you do with partners and thankfully (PTL) we changed partners every couple of minutes so that we were able to dance with everyone in the class. This is good for me because it's so hard to dance with someone who can't keep the rhythm. It will be interesting to see how we all improve over the course of the semester. And how good we are by our final performance in front of an audience. 

It was also SO WARM today. It had to of been in the 80s. Laura said that it will be a lot worse by April and May. OH JOY. Thankfully, in the house and in the buildings on campus, it is always SO cold! I don't know why, but it is and I enjoy it thoroughly. 

Vaneshia and I were going to go to San Miguel today, but that fell through because there wouldn't have been enough time for us to take a bus there, actually walk around and sight see, and then come back, which is fine with me because I have all the way until May to go there, so I'm not in any hurry. Vaneshia leaves on Saturday morning to go back to LA and then a few days later, back to Harvard, so I think she is going to San Miguel tomorrow with a group of people, while I'm stuck in class all day. 

On Saturday I plan on going to a movie and./or el Centro with my friend Amelie. I think it's becoming a weekly thing, that we just automatically go to el Centro on the weekend because A: it's close. B:it's cheap. C:that's were all of the good shopping is. 

Oh and today, I decided to join a tutoring thing through the university where I will be paired with a Mexican who will help me with my Spanish and I will help this person with their English. I'm pretty excited about that because I want so badly to become fluent, and unfortunately, I haven't been speaking Spanish the whole time with every person I am with because they either don't want to speak in Spanish, or don't know enough Spanish to have a conversation or understand what I'm talking about. This tutoring thing is different from the big brother big sister thing that I'm also a part of. The big bro/big sis thing is like a Mexican friend you are paired with to do fun things with, hang out with, etc. I actually talked with my "brother" Daniel Tuesday night on facebook for quite a long time (IN SPANISH OF COURSE) and we got to know each other better and something that was very encouraging for me to hear from him was that he said that my spanish writing was very good and he bets that my spanish speaking will be very good as well. Little compliments like that given to someone who is studying a language, means SO MUCH! So I'm excited to eventually meet him in person, hopefully soon. He also said that he knows how to make tamales, and that he could teach me, so I'm definitely taking him up on that offer. Laura also said tonight that tomorrow morning she is going to buy tamales for breakfast. I will surely take a picture of that glorious meal. 

Also, I haven't "worked out" officially as in running/lifting/going to the gym since I've been here, and I think I should be adjusted by now, so my goal for next week is to go to the gym on campus at least 4 times. I'll let you know how that goes.

I think I want to watch t.v. now, and do some reading so....

Hasta Luego!