Friday #8 - yay!

Only one more Friday and then we're OUTTA HERE!!!

I finished Jane Eyre last night = GREAT book - I *highly* recommend it. Short, sweet, and straight to the point. And it had an Edward, how could it NOT be good?!

We didn't do anything else last night. I downloaded Black and White, so Drew played that for a good portion of the night. I didn't realize how old that game is, cause the graphics are horrible. It made me want to play Tropico- I wish I had brought more games down here to play rather than just Sim City 4, and Sims for my laptop. Oh well.- Only 7 more days, right?

Tomorrow, I don't think we're going to do much of anything. We're going to come over to the school and internet it up til it closes at 2, and afterward, probably nothing since there's no more monies, and the school is going to Xochicalco on Saturday and Taxco on Sunday- both of which we've already done, so it's pointless to go again. Once you've seen one pyramid, you've seen them all. How snotty is that? HAHA

So here I come next week - bing it on! Oh, and I'm totally done with taking classes mentally. I just don't seem to care any more. - not that I cared all that much to begin with, but at least I was trying. Now it's a plug and play- if I know the formula of the sentence, I do it, otherwise it's pointless. I'm just done. I'm ready to go home. I'm also kind of done with the whole formal dinner every day thing. I'm excited to go home and eat on the couch if I feel like it. :D Crap, I'd even eat on the bed by this point!

Friday #4

Yay! We finished another week finally. Only 5 more to go. Half way through next week, we'll be halfway done with this hellish nightmare.

Last night, we had a group of 8 of us that went to Lucha Libre....the only problem was that there was NO lucha libre last night!!!! No one seemed to know this though cause several people came and went, all pissed off. Apparently, there is going to be a big ole fight next Thursday. I think we're going to round up people again and for reals go this time. ....again...

Other than that, we came home late, got to bed late, had a hard time sleeping, and came to school today. In my situational spanish class, we taught our teacher english tongue twisters. Screw the spanish, I guess. :)

Tomorrow morning, we're going to Xochicalco with the school. Sunday is church. Then we do it all over again.

Today, after comida, we're going to take a trek up to the bus station to make sure we know how much bus tickets are, possibly buy them, and make sure we know what time the bus takes off to Acapulco next weekend. I still have no idea who is going with us other than Eve. We might have 3 people or 40. Who knows.

Thursday #4

This is our FOURTH THursday here. Granted that we didn't get here til 7pm, but still, we were here. That means in a few days, it'll be hump day for school! YES! Then it's all downhill from there. I believe it's in 7 more days....maybe 8. I can't remember. We have 37 more days though. So yeah, I guess it's 8 days.

Today, at our lunch break, 2 teachers, and 5 of us students walked up to a pasteleria (bakery) and bought a cake for Julianna's birthday on June 1st, and Drew's birthday on June 28th. They saved me a piece. I think I'll eat it after dinner tonight ---I have to be extremely hungry for Comida because if I don't eat a decent amount, I get ripped on and whined at for not eating more. So from 11-3:30 I don't eat anything...which is actually extremely hard since I'm used to having a snack mid way through that time, but whatever.

Tonight, barring any random weird crap, we're have a group of people going with us to Lucha Libre since last week was a wash. Hopefully we won't be rained on too much. Hopefully this time, I'll be able to post and let you know how it went.

I didn't go to my class again today, I kind of like it this way. I thought about maybe going next week, but then I get all panic attacky type, and that's not cool. Esp. with my sleeping issues, I probably emotionally couldn't handle it. We shall see though.

There's a song playing on the radio in the kitchen area here at the school, and it sounds like Erasure, but in Spanish.

In my conversational class today, my teacher and I shared music we had on our phones. That's it. Oh, and she told us she has a half hour presentation she has to do in English for her English classes on the 24th, and she's extremely nervous about it. She's doing it on personality colors. She wants me to write up a whole bunch of crap for her, and I don't want to. I think that's something I'm going to pass on. I do have books on it though- but they're at home. :/

There's a few people leaving this weekend to go home, and people keep asking them if they're sad to go home, and none of them have said yes. hahaha one girl, from England said that she'll miss mexico, but she's ready to go back and be in the real world. Another girl said that she's just excited to lay on her carpet at home. I thought that was funny. It got me thinking though, and one of the things that is happy making here, is that once a week or so, they change the soap in the bathroom here (communal bar soap)- and sometimes, I get to use the brand new soap that no one else has touched. THAT my dears, is the excitement of my life. Or when I get the oilet paper with imprints of dolphins on it. hahaha

Oh, on another topic, there was a big ol terd on the patio area next to our bedroom at home this morning. We're assuming it came from an iguana cause we don't know what else would have done it. And our green eggs next to our bedroom door seem to have moved from a tiny egg to a larger one or something cause there are some clear egg "shells" in the middle, and all the other eggs have moved outward more...it's really weird. I'll try to remember to take a picture of it today.

I guess otherwise, things are ok. I'm still not too thrilled to be here, the exhaust from all the cars has given me smokers lung and I'm always coughing, but I guess at least I'm not dead, and there don't seem to be any warewolves or vampires nearby....?

Friday #2

Spanish 101
Rule #1 - Put o, e, a at the end of every word, if you don't know which one, just guess. It's better that way.
Rule #2 - Just put es at the front of every word, i.e. esschoola (escuela)
Rule #3 - Put El, La, Los, Las in front of every word, cause we all know we need more The's in our sentences.
Rule #4- - If you don't know how to say the word, just mumble something and it'll come out right....that or just roll your R's.
Rule #5 - Don't ask what kind of meat you're eating. It's just easier....



Tomorrow, we head up to Mexico city for a Cathedral and a pyramid. We'll take lots of pictures and try to post them on monday. Today, I am done. I don't really want to be here anymore. I still have my conversational spanish as well as situational spanish. I hate my situational spanish teacher. She's an arse. And she always says entonsis and bien chicas. If I never hear the word chicas again, it'll be too soon. I don't really have a whole lot more to talk about - pretty much the same crap, different day. I don't like it, it doesn't like me, etc. etc. I am moody, but I benadryl-ed myself last night, so I actually slept for 6 hours, so I didn't wake up and bawl all morning - so that's a plus, right?

Thursday #2

So at what? 7:00 tonight, we will have been here a week. I can say that I officially hate it here. I'm not sure if I'll get through the next 7 weeks. I hate my bed, I hate the smells, I hate not being able to do anything for Drew's birthday, I hate the noises, I hate the exhaust on the street, I hate learning spanish, I hate the culture, I hate that I can't pre-spot my clothes when I get shizz on them, I hate that no one has dishwashers, I hate that they don't have dryers, I hate the weather, I hate throwing toilet paper in the trashcan, I hate it. I feel like a spoiled rotten tantruming kid - and to top it off, I really don't care. This sucks.

Wednesday for Maddy

I am pooped. I'm ready to go home. It's been nice, don't want to come back, I'll head off on a plane tonight. :) - Hah! Honestly though, I have learned a lot, even if it is just 3 days. I can conjugate a few verbs, and I can write some kindergarten quality sentences. I just don't like it here. I miss my overcast hole. lol

I can't remember what I learned in my 1st 2 classes. Oh. 1 thing though, we saw a lizard in the trees outside during conversational, and our teacher said that iguanas taste good. SICK! We talked about ....well, no, he talked at us about how you eat these things like large ants, iguanas, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc. because you don't have the money to go to the store to buy food, so you catch crap by your house and eat that. That was interesting. In our grammar class, we had to come up with sentences using the correct verb form. I rock at that shiz in present tense. not past or future tense though.

In my last class, I had conception. Yup, that's her name! We talked about taxis and buses and how you have to wave them down to get in or on. Then make sure to ask the taxi driver how much it's going to be before you get in, otherwise they'll screw you. Then to yell at the bus driver to let you off the bus.

Also, I'm uploading pictures right now to snapfish. It's extremely slow and frustrating. I'll send out an invitation to the email addresses I have, but if you didn't get an invite, and you want one, please let me know so I can send it your way. I don't know how much I want to post ~92 pictures on blogspot, and this way, I don't have to pick and choose, I can just upload everything.

Tonight, after dinner, we come back to the school for a movie. Then back to the room so drew can do homework. I don't have any cause Kate - whos in my class - didn't do her past and future tenses for her verbs - so I'm off the hook. :)

Tuesday

I'm hoping to spit this all out while I actually have an internet connection rather than getting it out tomorrow. So here is how the day went:
I woke up, not feeling tiptop, again. I just couldn't eat this morning. I was offered eggs, and the thought of eating them was revolting. I just couldn't do it. I ate some fruit. They eat mango like bananas here - it's pretty cool. I'm sure i'm getting way too much sugar. Oh well. We went to school, I got homework this morning. I have to conjugate some verbs, like 12 of them. Not a big deal, just busy work. If I could do it on my computer, it would be a lot faster. Oh well. Drew took my laptop into the computer lab to get the network fixed, and it's working beautifully now. I'm going to try it at the house tonight - although the threat of mosquitoes makes me a little bit wary.

I had to start at 8am today since Kate is in my class, and since it's 2 people instead of 1, I have to be in there 3 hours instead of 2. So anyway, then we had our conversation class- that was boring. Kate just sat there, I felt bad, but at the same time, I was able to try some crap out - I hope she'll talk in time....that or maybe we will be in different classes next week. ?

Then we had a break, we ate bananas and an orange - the orange was grown in the garden at our families house. It tasted like the oranges at the grocery store - maybe even a little bit bitter since it wasn't fully ripe. They have banana trees, but I don't think our bananas were from there.

After break we had a different class where we reviewed the ser verb. Freak that is hard. I don't think I understood it very well since we had to come up with sentences for each verb form. It hurt my brain.

We came back home, went right upstairs and ate dinner-lunch. We had fried fish - which surprisingly, didn't take like fish at all- a VERY good thing. And some random mexcian squash with oil, herbs, and Parmesan cheese on it- it was actually kind of tasty. Oh, and potato soup, which was good (potatoes with seasoning, onions in some broth).

So then right after that, we came back to the school for our art class. We traced random pictures onto cloth and then painted them with acrylics. I happened to get some purple pain splotches on my shorts and shirt - I'm a little pissed. I don't think it'll come out? I was also told of some horror stories of the laundry place that we have to go to - its like a dry cleaners for laundry, but no dry cleaning, and they end up "losing" people's clothes. I'm going to write my name in EVERYTHING. ugh. So, uhm, yeah, now i'm here, typing away.

The day has been OK, but I'm still not very comfortable, and counting down the hours, to count down another day that I can mark off my calendar to come home. For those reading for Drew's benefit. He's fine. He's having a good time. He can adjust to new and different things MUCH more easily than I can.

I was trying to upload pictures, but it was taking too long, so I think I'll do it tomorrow at lunch/break time. I love you all!

p.s. As you can see, I didn’t get to post this when I wanted to. I was all ready to go, BUT for some reason, blogspot was having a “scheduled maintenance” deal at 4:00PDT, so of course, they probably had a server down, so I couldn’t post. Hopefully you’ll see this in the morning or early afternoon.

So since I didn’t get to post, you can hear more ramblings of a pathetic person. First thing is, today, I had my 2^nd cold shower in a row. I don’t know if they’re allotted so many gallons per day/week/month/year, etc, and I’ve totally used mine up, but it hasn’t worked in two days, and I don’t want to complain to the Fragoso’s, but if it continues, I’ll make Drew…..he doesn’t know this yet…. .^_^ J Also, at dinner, Horacio told us that on dia de San Juan (June 24^th) it always rains. It hasn’t rained yet. It has 3 more hours. I don’t hear any wind bringing anything in. Speaking of wind and rain; last night, it was thundering SO loud that it woke us up. Not just woke us up and you go right back to sleep, but blaring rumbling. Did I talk about this already from this morning? Well, since this is my blog, I’m going to write about it again if I have, and if I haven’t, it’s bueno. So anyway, Last night, 12:02am, we hear this big ole crash/boom/bang, what have you. We both wake up and are still laying there. So I orient myself, check the time, see if Drew’s awake- he was. So then a big ole lightning bolt, bright enough to light up our room with our drapes closed, and being downstairs with a bit of an overhang, it still lit up the room, bright as day. Then not 3 seconds later, a air crackle so loud I seriously thought we were going to get hit. This didn’t stop for a good 10 minutes- I was totally freaked out. The power went out (I didn’t realize this til morning, but I know it totally went out during the storm.) Surprisingly, once the thunder had run its course and the rain started, Drew and I both fell back asleep rather quickly, even though we were both a bit shocked at how loud it got. It never got that loud in Utah, and since Oregon never has thunder, it couldn’t even come close. Seriously, it was BAD!!!

I was going to go check my interwebs to see if they’d work down by the wall, and take some pictures down there, but it got too dark, too fast. I almost feel like it gets darker, faster here than it does in Oregon right now. For example**, I feel like it gets dark around 9:00- like you can still see things, but it’s getting dark, here, it’s decently dark by 8:00, and by 9:00 it’s nighttime.

I did the ** so I’d remember the other thing that made me laugh today. I had a lot of conversation today where they’d give me examples, and every time they’d say(for example) por exemplo (a-hemp-low (a says it’s name)) and it reminds me of a deaf person that is trying to talk, but can’t hear where to hit the strong consonants like x, so it comes out all retarded- oh the things that keep my mind occupied…..

No me gusta ducharse en aqua frio. Esta muy malo. L L L

June 20, 2008

OK, so here we are. We got up, had breakfast. My stomach was still was uneasy, but I was able to handle the smell of the eggs being cooked....barely. They had mango, papaya and cantaloupe and eggs. I ate like half and egg and half a cup of fruit. That was pushing it. Senora Lydia drove us to the school today to make sure we got there on time. We sat there in the office for a little while and then went back and made sure our account was up to date. Apparently we didn't pay for our ride back to the airport in August. So we paid that and gave them our money to change it into pesos. We went back to the assistant directors office to do a "test" to see how proficient we are. Yeah, I didn't know jack. Seriously, like nothing. I think the guy was laughing inside about how lame I am. Oh well. Drew could conjugate much more than I could. I don't know if we'll be in the same class or not. I know I rely way too much on him, but honestly, I don't mind.

So we came back to the house at 9am and I went to lay down cause I was hot, sweaty and just not feeling well. I think we're going to move our twin beds next to one another today...or at least Pablo will. hahaha I need a maid. Also, this whole no toilet paper in the toilet thing is difficult to remember. I think I fell asleep for a few minutes, it felt good. I felt bad though since Drew was anxious to go do something, and here I am, not wanting to even move.

At 10am, we came back to the school and paid for internet for 2 months, and now we're sitting out on the patio while everyone eats lunch. The smells are making me a bit nauseous, but I'm trying to stay calm. I feel shy and out of place here. There's these somewhat large groups of people here, like 4-8people. Then there's us. Everyone else, except escorts? are in high school too. We're old and newbs, so it's a bit daunting.

So I don't know what else we're doing today. I think the internet access is accessible at the house since it's like in the backyard of their home, even though there's so many trees, you can't tell. I think I might want to go walk around the school and figure out where things are.

The lady that showed us around the school was talking a million miles a minute, I understood so little, but hopefully enough to get around, since pointing helps a LOT.

I think that's about it for now. I have no idea what we're going to do this weekend. They have excursions lined up with the school, but we can't afford all of them, so we have to pick and choose what we do.

There's a literally green fly hanging out. It's like the size of a bee, but BRIGHT green. crazy!

I'll upload pictures later on. I'm hoping that the 2 bars for the internet are accessible at our little casa tonight so I can get on then. That' would be most awesome.

Hasta Luego!