Sunday #5

I have a lot to write, but I don´t have a ton of time. We´re down here in acapulco in the internet cafe area of our hotel. our bus doesnt come for an hour and a half, so we´re hanging out here for half an hour. yesterday, i think i got heat stroke or something because i just felt like crap last night, my head was and is throbbing. we had plans to go over to the diamante beach this morning and there was just no way it was going to happen. i feel sicker than i think i ever have in my entire life. drew went and bought me dramamine and tylenol and asprin. he said i was just burning up this morning. i also slept til 12:25pm. i felt really bad cause they wanted to go out dancing last night and i said there was no way i´d be able to, so no one went. i hate feeling like the party pooper, but honestly, there was nothing i could do about it. so yeah, i am sick, sick, sick. i haven´t eaten today, and dont plan on it. we did have a pretty fun time the last 2 days though. cliff diving at night on friday, all day at the beach on saturday. i´m not sunburnt so why do i still feel like i´m going to vomit at any second and i have to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes. woe is me. oh, yesterday, i got two little 12 year olds to braid my hair in cornrows. i like it a lot. i have pictures, so ill upload them when i get back to school. i also bought a cute bag that says acapulco on it, and a conch shell....not only did i buy a conch shell, i bought it from a guy that was in the middle of the bay! -we were on a boat heading to some little resort called paloa i think. so yeah, i am alive (barely), and ill write more later.

Friday #5

Today was a day full of choice words in my head about the curriculum here. I won't discuss it since a few people don't seem to take kindly to my opinions. Just know that I'm not happy, and being a teacher, I expect more out of these people. So to put it succinctly, I wrote to the professor in charge of the Spanish department at LaVerne University where I am getting my college credits, finding out how many weeks I have to be in class to earn my 8 credits, and if it is any less than 8, I am dumping the rest of my classes. My experience here has been a joke, if I could afford to send myself home early, I would, but at least I can attempt to get rid of some of my classes and maybe get a partial refund on those classes. I would not recommend this school to anyone.

In other news, we head off to Acapulco today. I hope it goes well. I'll write more about it when we get back.

PHOTOS!

Maddy uploaded 2 albums today. One is of the week's pictures and the other is of our trip to Xochicalco. The link should get you into the album library.

Week of 07/15/08 and Xochicalco.

Hasta Luego.

Thursday #5

Holy SMOKES! Thursday # 5!?!? Only 4 more fridays to go. Thank goodness. Today/Tomorrow is hump day. It's all downhill from here.----at least I hope so. We head out to Acapulco tomorrow afternoon. I'm getting reports that the beach and the ocean are dirty and polluted. I'll keep you guys updated. I'm hoping to take my laptop, but it depends on how much crap I have to shove into my backpack and bag, since my suitcases are way too big for such a short time frame.

Drew should be posting a couple links to pictures here as soon as I send him the email. It's taken me almost a week to upload these pics since the internet has been so slow. --there are some pics in there I didn't caption well, but we're in a cave, under the pyramids, and there was a observatory type thing that one day a year where it would light up the entire cave - which was decently large, too. Nothing else is to exciting.

Last night, we went to Hellboy 2. The movie was lame, but the experience was decent. It was in a mall, which was regular sized, but had a huge circus tent for the roof - it rained tons last night and you could hear it throughout the end of the movie. We were going to see Hancock, but it sold out before we realized that we could only pay with a Visa (no mastercard). Uhm, we bought Drew some mexican shorts at Liverpool - similar to nordstom/dillards, I think. Lydia had driven us to the mall with Horacio so they could go grocery shopping afterward. Lydia sat and complained about the water bill being $300 for 2 months, and how she can't believe she pays so much for rain, so horacio told her to just gather the rain and filter it. Then something about a pool, grumpity words about the whole ordeal, and then we were there. I can't believe how expensive the water bill is. That's insane. I'm thankful for my cheap, clean water in the US. Our taxi driver for the way home had lived in Chicago for 6 years prior to coming back to Mexico 2 years ago. I think he wanted to practice his English cause he wouldn't speak in SPanish at all. That was actually really nice, and he knew exactly where we lived - which was nice too, since it was 11:00pm and I have no idea how to tell them how to get there.

I didn't sleep much last night. I'm having some serious sleeping problems. I feel that they're probably situational, but if it continues past a couple weeks back up in Oregon, I think I'll need some medical diagnosis because this is getting insane. I got to bed at 11:30, didn't really get to sleep til 1am, and woke up every half hour or so throughout the night, for several minutes. I'd be surprised if I slept for more than 2-3 hours total. This seems to be an recurring thing. Oh well. :/

So, tomorrow, acapulco with random people - of which none are friends....should be interesting...I've been told the beach and ocean are polluted, and the only things to go there are to go get drunk and dancing. If that's all, I guess I'll be watching a whole bunch of tv. At least it'll be acapulcoan tv, right?

Las Aventuras de Drew

!Peligro! !El proximo mensaje es en Espaňol!

(Warning! The following message is en Spanish!)*

*Don’t worry. I will translate it at the bottom.

Estoy escribiendo en Espaňol porque yo necesito practicar espaňol ahora. Traduciré este mensaje en ingles a bajo. Este mensaje va hacer corto porque no se hablar/escribir bien Espaňol.

Mi siento mas confortable con el idioma y la gente de México. Ayer, Maddy y you fuimos a la peluqueria sin un diccionario de espaňol.

La comida es muy sabrosa aquí. Ayer, comí un chile habanero. Despues de la primera mordida me dio hipo por cinco minutos. Maddy pensó que fuí a vomitar porque sudé mucho y mi cara estaba roja. Lo creen ó no lo creen, pero no tuvé “problemas” después de comer el chile.

Maňana, Maddy y yo vamas a trater de otra vez ver una lucha libre. Los anuncios se ven bien. Los cuatro luchadores se ponen mascaras. Estoy entusiasmado.

Bien. Este mensaje lo escribí en una hora y diez minutos, mas or menos. La próxima vez escribiré más rápido.

Hasta luego,

- Dreu

ENGLISH TRANSLATION!

I am writing in Spanish because I need to practice Spanish now. I will translate this message into English below. This message is going to be short because I do not know how to speak/to write Spanish well.

I feel more comfortable with the language and the people of Mexico. Yesterday, Maddy and I went to a barbershop without a Spanish Dictionary.

The food is delicious here. Yesterday, I ate a habanero pepper. After the first bite I got the hiccups for five minutes. Maddy thought I was going to vomit because I was sweating a lot and my face was red. Believe it or not, but I did not have “problems” after I ate the chile.

Tomorrow, Maddy and I are going to try again to see a wrestling match. Four wrestlers wear masks. I am excited.

Ok. This message was written in one hour and ten minutes, more or less. The next time I will write faster.

See you later,

- Drew