Turns out, I´m a fan of 3 day weekends...

Hey all!
So I hardly know where to start, I feel like I´ve done so much in the past couple days. Appearently the school I´m going to has one thing (and I mean only ONE thing...) figured out for sure, which is no classes on Fridays. I don´t think I´ll have any problems adjusting to three day weekends, ha. I think I´m a bit closer to having my schedule figured out, basically my classes are literature, grammar, conversation, and history. I´m hesitant about history, we shall see... Also, I´m in the process of signing up for taking a philosophy of religion class at the actual Mexican university, La Universidad Veracruzana. I´m really excited about it but simultaneosly terrified...haha. It will be a really good way to push myself and my spanish. The hard part is the semesters are different between the schools so I have to go in and talk to the professor tomorrow to see if I can end early.

So this weekend....Thursday night there was a little fiesta at the school, nothing overly exciting. After, Elena and I went to a little bar, La Chiva, which I could see myself spending a decent amount of time in. For those in La Crosse, picture Bodega, but 4 times smaller and with outdoor seating :) What was extra cool about going there is that I spotted a poster for somthing called Animal Fest, a concert where all the proceeds went to help the animals of the city. Turns out it was on Friday, so that´s where we headed the next night. It was really fun! There were 4 bands, the first was like some guitar hero playlist of metalica and nirvana covers, it was hilarious. seriously. We ran into a couple girls and a dude that works at the school so we were hanging out with them too. It was cool though because we really did only speak spanish with eachother throughout the night.

Sidenote about that...It is funny because I find myself not that interested in getting to know people at the school. I don´t feel like hanging out with a bunch of Americans and speaking English, ya know? At the same time, how do you just go about meeting random Mexicans? I´m not completely sure, but I´ll let you know when I figure it out ;)

Back to Friday night, we ended up leaving the concert and going to a party at some girls from school (I know, people from school...) but it was pretty fun. There were a bunch of school people there and some seemingly random Mexicans. What I sort of figured out by talking to some of them is that they sort of circuit, if you will, the students from the school each semester...kind of weird, right? My host mom then later mentioned that there has been one boy who dated two different girls that stayed in her house! that is ridiculous! ha. I think I´m going to avoid that scene...

Saturday we headed to a beach called Chachalacas. It a nice little adventure figuring out the bus system. It didn´t go completely smoothly, we may or may not have bought a wrong ticket at some point and I´m pretty sure I almost got robbed...we were waiting for a bus and as it came i
grabbed for my backpack on my back and both zippers were open! possibly I had left it them open cuz I was in my bag minutes before, but I seriously doubt it. My stomach has never dropped so fast in my life, complete panic. It turned out fine though, all my valuable type things were burried in the bottom, but damn, I learned a lesson about paying attention and being aware. Anyway, the beach was great, and we ate freash seafood, which was amazing. I had a fish filete stuffed with shrimp and other sea deliciousness.

Today then, I went with Ana, my cultural aide, her mom, and Elena, to a town called Xico to see some waterfalls. It was great, really nice weather and the falls were gorgeous. We hiked up and around, it was a lot of fun and really sweaty.

I´m going to add pictures soonish, the computer Í´m on won´t let me...much love, and I hope to hear from some of you!

ps-marcy, I´m currently enjoying my second purchase of hot nuts, yummm :)