Week 2 of School

I know I write at least 2 or 3 posts a week, but I just have a lot to say and don't want to forget to write anything down, so rather than try to remember what happens over a weeks span, I might as well just write it down as I go so then I don't forget anything super important. Today I had my salsa class, which was really fun! We learned the basic steps and 2 kinds of turns, then towards the end, we danced with partners practicing all that we learned that class. And get this: there are more boys in the class than there are girls! I know, I was shocked too! It must be boys want to know how to salsa dance here. Why? I'm assuming because what girl DOESN'T like a boy who can dance, especially salsa dance. I danced with 2 international students, one from the US and the other from Germany. The majority of the class are people from Mexico or from Latin countries, so they already have that salsa blood flowing through them. Unfortunately, the 2 boys I danced with are not the best, but at least they are trying! I hope and pray they learn the rhythm soon. I wonder if we are supposed to practice? I'll probably practice the oh so many moves we learned in class today, tonight.
Another thing I did today was let 2 girls in my Psychology  leadership class borrow my book that I got from the library for an assignment. To be honest, when the one girl messaged me on facebook, I had no clue who she was and when I was waiting for her on campus, I didn't even remember what she looked like but thankfully, she knew exactly who I was. Of course when she and the other girl found me, we greeted each other with a kiss on the cheek and a hug. I'm starting to get used to the whole kissing as greeting thing, although it is so different than the U.S. Some people do the whole "fake kiss" thing where you basically just touch cheeks and make the kiss noise, but other people actually kiss you on the cheek. (FYI: right cheek to right cheek). The more I think about it, the more I feel the whole kissing on the cheek thing as a greeting shows more love than just hand shaking in the U.S.  Maybe someday all of the US will adopt this social norm. It would be kind of cool if we did.
I didn't mention this yet, but it is SO WARM TODAY! It has to be between 75 - 80 degrees today, and it feels great. I suppose it's only going to get warmer from here on out. I'm not complaining though, except when I have to walk to or from school in the heat. Thankfully, I took the bus home today so I only had to walk probably 5-10 minutes.
For lunch, Laura made fried chicken, but it wasn't the same type of fried chicken in the US. I think she used pancake batter as the frying part, and it tasted wonderful. And we also had this kind of mexican soup with little noodles that are about pea sized and pea shaped, but they are noodles, and we had a salad with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, celery, lime, and maybe pepper? It was a very colorful salad. I did take a picture of it with my phone and uploaded it to instagram and twitter. I have no idea how to get that picture onto this blog though. Then Laura fed me dessert which was a giant chocolate oatmeal cookie that her daughter got from Germany. It was delicious. With all this good food, I don't miss American food one bit. There's so much variety here! I'm also definitely getting my appetite back because for the last week or basically since I've been here, I was just not hungry, and it was probably just nerves, but that's not the case anymore, which means I can enjoy all of the good food Laura makes. :)
Yesterday, I went to el Centro once again with my 2 german friends - Amelie and Julia. We walked all around, I bought a few gifts for people, we went to the bakery, which is amazing, and we went to a restaurant where we got 4 courses for only $75 pesos!!! ($6.00 US dollars). Stuff is so cheap here, it's crazy! I had this camarón soup, which is shrimp soup. I didn't care for it much at all. The soup itself tasted way to seafoody for my liking. The next course was azteca soup, which I liked. It was spicy and had crunchy tortilla strips in it with avocado. The next course was pasta, it was basically really similar to chicken alfredo. The last course was the main dish and I got enchiladas verdes. I think enchiladas are my go-to food here when I don't know what the other stuff on the menu is. When all else fails, go for the enchiladas. Then the waiter came around with a little dessert thing and mine was cooked rice mixed with sugar, milk, and cinnamon. It was decently good, but I would choose something chocolate over that any day.
After our long day in el Centro, we took the bus home, well, to where we needed to get off. Amelie and Julia got off a few stops before I did, and I got off at Plaza del Parque, which is like 15 min by walking from my house. Almost all the buses stop at Plaza del Parque no matter where they are going, so that's good to know for future reference. And now for some photos!

Just outside of El Centro

Fountain in El Centro

on the weekends, all of the carts come out and fill all of the streets, and it's like a big market

The bakery we went to. One of my favorite places. Some of the stuff is really cheap. Like the donuts are only $11-12 pesos (about .90 cents in US)

This is probably the most run-down building I've seen. Otherwise, things are pretty well-kept around where I live. 

And now the things I got from the bakery :)

Concha bread. very good!

The bakery's name is El Globo, and it's been around for a long time!