Triumph! Hot water this morning in the shower…well…warm water in any case which was quite sufficient. It would seem that I have finally managed to figure out the shower system which involves two knobs and a little bit of waiting time. In either case, I have sacked the cold shower routine from my mornings here in Mexico.
Moving right along, Chelsea and I took the bus by ourselves this morning (we’re getting to be big girls now; we can go all by ourselves). The buses are rather funny things, while I’m talking about them. A lot of them have a little plate, or emblem of La Virgen, that sort of thing. I one of the ones this morning said something to the effect of “Only God is enough.” Now, the thing is, just the other day, I saw a ceramic picture-type thing of La Virgen hanging in between two playboy bunny stickers. Contemplate that view for just a moment. …Yeah I thought it was a little odd, too.
But we got off the bus, it dropped us off at the Plaza Fiesta, and we got on the next bus. For orientation this morning, things actually went by pretty quickly. We learned not to do anything stupid, and that “No” doesn’t actually mean no necessarily in Mexico. Here the dating game is he asks, she says no, he pursues, and finally she says “ok” and everything is perfect. The confidence is admirable, the instigation is fantastic, and however the whole “no” doesn’t mean no thing could get really old really fast.
We also got to see some pictures of Chiapas and el Inframundo (the two options we have for later this month for a 4 day excursion). Both of the trips seem to be really neat, and the professor who spoke about Inframundo seemed really nice, and was clear. I could possibly take a class with him this semester on Underwater Archaeology. We’ll see. I’m asking about classes in the Education Campus so hopefully I’ll find out about that tomorrow.
And this is when things went from moving around quite nicely to moving slower than molasses in the weather you guys are having up north. We got an entire overview of Mexican history. Now, I don’t really know what he talked about for two hours, I know it had to do with Mexican history, and I know Gustavo had the answers to most of the questions he asked. I looked at my schedule for classes which we have to take 5 of. I’m hoping that I will be able to take some classes at the education school because there aren’t very many that I particularly want to take at the Anthropology school.
Finally we got to eat lunch. After lunch though we went to Spanish class which I was kind of looking forward to but it wasn’t as fun as I’d hoped. It’s still going to be an extraordinarily helpful class, but it’s not going be easy like all my other Spanish classes have been. We read articles for class though, and mine was about flights to the Merida airport, which apparently they’re adding a couple of international flights in spite of La Crisis (bad economy) so that there’s not a decline in people doing airfare and airtravel. Seems like a bit of a risk to me, the possibility to waste more funds than you end up gaining but hopefully it works out for them.
We left the school just after 6 (class got out a little tardy) and Chelsea’s host mom picked us up. I have no crazy stories to share today about a lack of camion and waiting in the dark. …That’s probably a good thing though.
Moving right along, Chelsea and I took the bus by ourselves this morning (we’re getting to be big girls now; we can go all by ourselves). The buses are rather funny things, while I’m talking about them. A lot of them have a little plate, or emblem of La Virgen, that sort of thing. I one of the ones this morning said something to the effect of “Only God is enough.” Now, the thing is, just the other day, I saw a ceramic picture-type thing of La Virgen hanging in between two playboy bunny stickers. Contemplate that view for just a moment. …Yeah I thought it was a little odd, too.
But we got off the bus, it dropped us off at the Plaza Fiesta, and we got on the next bus. For orientation this morning, things actually went by pretty quickly. We learned not to do anything stupid, and that “No” doesn’t actually mean no necessarily in Mexico. Here the dating game is he asks, she says no, he pursues, and finally she says “ok” and everything is perfect. The confidence is admirable, the instigation is fantastic, and however the whole “no” doesn’t mean no thing could get really old really fast.
We also got to see some pictures of Chiapas and el Inframundo (the two options we have for later this month for a 4 day excursion). Both of the trips seem to be really neat, and the professor who spoke about Inframundo seemed really nice, and was clear. I could possibly take a class with him this semester on Underwater Archaeology. We’ll see. I’m asking about classes in the Education Campus so hopefully I’ll find out about that tomorrow.
And this is when things went from moving around quite nicely to moving slower than molasses in the weather you guys are having up north. We got an entire overview of Mexican history. Now, I don’t really know what he talked about for two hours, I know it had to do with Mexican history, and I know Gustavo had the answers to most of the questions he asked. I looked at my schedule for classes which we have to take 5 of. I’m hoping that I will be able to take some classes at the education school because there aren’t very many that I particularly want to take at the Anthropology school.
Finally we got to eat lunch. After lunch though we went to Spanish class which I was kind of looking forward to but it wasn’t as fun as I’d hoped. It’s still going to be an extraordinarily helpful class, but it’s not going be easy like all my other Spanish classes have been. We read articles for class though, and mine was about flights to the Merida airport, which apparently they’re adding a couple of international flights in spite of La Crisis (bad economy) so that there’s not a decline in people doing airfare and airtravel. Seems like a bit of a risk to me, the possibility to waste more funds than you end up gaining but hopefully it works out for them.
We left the school just after 6 (class got out a little tardy) and Chelsea’s host mom picked us up. I have no crazy stories to share today about a lack of camion and waiting in the dark. …That’s probably a good thing though.
This is Chelsea =) ----->
And the first picture up at the top is La Plaza de Fiesta for your viewing pleasure :)
Very interesting...I thought for sure the Plaza de Fiesta would be a shopping mall. HMmm Plaza = shops and Fiesta=party, a fun shopping place?? WEll you know where my mind is hehehee. Glad to hear you are finding your way around there. I love you EVERY DAY xoxoxo MOM :)
ReplyDeleteHey there Kate. Hot water is a good thing. Better here that there since you have the warm weather. I am glad to see you are making friends and that you are also starting to have a following. One of your fellow students from UConn is following your blog. I expect that today you be picking your classes. I hope all goes well. Love very much! Papo
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I get to see what the Chelsea looks like... It's similar to what I imagined. Love you lots.
ReplyDeleteNo, no Sunny, Fiesta means "sleep" so its a "place to sleep" - hahaha, just kidding, just kidding, just making sure Kate is kept on her toes with her Spanish, tee hee! Well c'mon, this site is keep Kate sane and amused from our end too! :)
ReplyDelete