LOVING IT. I think I could leave my blog post at that and you would get the picture of how I’m feeling right about now…but just for the hell of it I’ll divulge a few more details.
Right now I find myself at the beginning of a 2 week long school break…where the premise is Semana Santa (holy week), but the practiced idea is more Spring Break :) My plans involve a trip that brings me in a loop around the Yucatán—it looks something like: Mérida, Chichen-Itza, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum. I’m really excited! I’m going the first week with my boyfriend Héctor and then for week two we are meeting up with Elena.
Ok, enough about the future, time for a little bit about the past. Many weeks ago now…like 3 or 4 (?!) I hiked a mountain called Cofre de Perote, just outside of Xalapa with 5 friends. It was fun; it had been a long time since I’d gone on a good, solid hike…7 hours in total, ha. We made it a little harder on ourselves because we decided to skip out on the provided switchback trail and head, more or less, straight up. I think it’s good we did this hike then because it just keeps getting hotter and hotter here…this past week it’s been hovering around 90 degrees, sometimes less, mostly a little more. Sidenote: people keep telling me Mérida will be at least 40* Celsius…104* Fahrenheit… so if I don’t return, I’m definitely melted somewhere on the sidewalk…
The next weekend Héctor, Elena, Jacob, Copi and I planned a trip to Catemaco, where Héctor’s family has a house/cabin. The place is absolutely precious. The landscape is gorgeous hilly green-ness mixed with a little jungle and a big lake… not to mention that the atmosphere of the actual cabin itself, it reminds me a lot of my own, it’s a place to spend time with friends and family, to relax, enjoy, reflect…hands down one of my favorite places in México. So back to the trip…the 5 of us quickly turned into a group of 14 (somehow the cabin has beds for 15—sound familiar ?! I told you it was like my cabin!) the weekend was amazing. We went swimming in the lake, enjoyed a couple beers, and had a dance party on Friday night. Saturday we went to a neighboring town and had a guided tour of a little jungle area, went on a boat ride to see an island with ugly monkeys, and had a bbq at the cabin. Sun we left and stopped at a waterfall on our way out of town. All in all a great weeked :)
The next weekend I stayed in Xalapa, relaxing and hanging out with friends. We played a little ultimate Frisbee and drank a few mojitos.
On to the good stuff…the boyfriend…Héctor and I met my first weekend here, but due to my inability to type numbers into my phone, didn’t hang out until a few weeks after that. Since then things have progressed and we hang out everyday, and I love it. Sometimes we just walk around the park eating ice cream, other times we are having coffee with Nominjin, a Mongolian pop singer (Héctor accompanied her with guitar here in Xalapa for a performance in a conference), or sometimes he even talks me into going to his marketing class with him, haha.
Last weekend I went back to Catemaco with Héctor, but this time with his mom, aunt and 4 of the aunt’s friends. It was another great experience, though really different from the first. We took out the boat and the jet ski, sat around and listened to stories from the friends (who, by the way, smoke like chimneys and aren’t too bad for a glass of tequila or 4…ha, it was fun), enjoyed a private concert compliments of Héctor, stargazed…another really solid weekend.
I returned from that weekend back to a reality check at school… I had 2 tests, a paper, and a presentation waiting for me…but I finished them all and now its vacation time, I leave tomorrow afternoon, Yucatan bound! I’m going to go pack my backpack right now (no worries mom, I’m packing LOTS of sunscreen) !
Much love and I hope this finds everyone doing well!
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