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hola!,
i know i probably should have been on lj while in mexico but i decided to send out a few mass e-mail updates instead. me and leecha just got back last night at about midnight. there have been a few really weird things that i didn't realize were so natural in mexico and that are different here.
1) saying hi and bye, rrrrrrrr i hate not knowing what to do, in mx we just do a shake and a kiss, sometimes even a hug, but here sometimes people aren't into that. so if you see me and think i'm being weird...it's not that i'm weird, it's that american culture is weird. hahhaa
2)i keep having to remind myself that it is okay to flush the toilet paper, i feel like i'm doing something wrong everytime, but....i guess not. you may think this is gross, but sometimes the truth hurts. haha.
3) last night i actually had some trouble getting to sleep because it was soooooooooo quiet. i've never been like that before...ever! i guess it was becaused the first week-hotel ac whatev, 2nd week = no ac at night but, we were on a busy city street, 3-5th weeks= window ac at nights...so i guess i just never realized until last night how much noise a window ac machine makes, idk
4) i still haven't dranken----rrrr i hate english, any water out of the faucet, i'm so used to knowing that any water that comes out of a tube probably isn't safe. it has to come out of a bottle or a purified 5 gallon jug. i didn't get sick the entire time we were there, so i don't know why i can't drink out of the tap. i guess now i just don't understand how it can be ok. haha
5) seatbelts.....schwatever. and on that topic, why is there such a thing as a 5 passenger, or 7 passenger car/van, that must be the fat people ratio, because believe me there's a lot more room for people than that in those cars. hahaha
leaving yesterday was painful, and i cried saying goodbye to people, but i actually cried the most right when i felt the airplane wheels lift off of the ground. wow! crazy. although it hurt and i already cried a tiny bit today because i already miss it. this year leaving was better. last year some people might remember it hurt like a mother. but this year my heart and spirit just felt so much more satisified by staying longer. it just showed me how much i need to be and am called to be there long term. my heart isn't made for 1 week trips, and i think this year kinda showed me why maybe i needed to experience how wrong that was for me last year. ahhhh. hope this makes since, and hope to see people soon. i'm gonna be posting all my fotos online i think sometime so i'll keep ya up on that.
i know i probably should have been on lj while in mexico but i decided to send out a few mass e-mail updates instead. me and leecha just got back last night at about midnight. there have been a few really weird things that i didn't realize were so natural in mexico and that are different here.
1) saying hi and bye, rrrrrrrr i hate not knowing what to do, in mx we just do a shake and a kiss, sometimes even a hug, but here sometimes people aren't into that. so if you see me and think i'm being weird...it's not that i'm weird, it's that american culture is weird. hahhaa
2)i keep having to remind myself that it is okay to flush the toilet paper, i feel like i'm doing something wrong everytime, but....i guess not. you may think this is gross, but sometimes the truth hurts. haha.
3) last night i actually had some trouble getting to sleep because it was soooooooooo quiet. i've never been like that before...ever! i guess it was becaused the first week-hotel ac whatev, 2nd week = no ac at night but, we were on a busy city street, 3-5th weeks= window ac at nights...so i guess i just never realized until last night how much noise a window ac machine makes, idk
4) i still haven't dranken----rrrr i hate english, any water out of the faucet, i'm so used to knowing that any water that comes out of a tube probably isn't safe. it has to come out of a bottle or a purified 5 gallon jug. i didn't get sick the entire time we were there, so i don't know why i can't drink out of the tap. i guess now i just don't understand how it can be ok. haha
5) seatbelts.....schwatever. and on that topic, why is there such a thing as a 5 passenger, or 7 passenger car/van, that must be the fat people ratio, because believe me there's a lot more room for people than that in those cars. hahaha
leaving yesterday was painful, and i cried saying goodbye to people, but i actually cried the most right when i felt the airplane wheels lift off of the ground. wow! crazy. although it hurt and i already cried a tiny bit today because i already miss it. this year leaving was better. last year some people might remember it hurt like a mother. but this year my heart and spirit just felt so much more satisified by staying longer. it just showed me how much i need to be and am called to be there long term. my heart isn't made for 1 week trips, and i think this year kinda showed me why maybe i needed to experience how wrong that was for me last year. ahhhh. hope this makes since, and hope to see people soon. i'm gonna be posting all my fotos online i think sometime so i'll keep ya up on that.