If I was nice I would put it under a cut...
Hmmm... once again, livejournal is very interesting in Spanish...
Mexico is pretty cool, I´m having a great time.
The street that Alison lives on is absolutely gorgeous. I haven´t seen many paved streets, they´re all stone and such. Anyways, all the houses have these gates out front, really impressive, huge, looks like a front door. Then you open it and it´s a courtyard! Each room has it´s own door off the courtyard, no two connect. And her in-laws live right across the street! So cute!
Anyway, I´m in an internet cafe (very interesting) so I´ll just sketch out an idea....
I love it here. I don´t want to leave. Leaving means school starts. Leaving means I have to return to the freezing cold.
I heard that it was snowing today. Not here. Shorts all the way. I´d be perfectly fine barefooted, but it´s not really practical.
My second day Mary and I went with a group from HCC (how Alison met Carlos - her husband - in the first place) and we went on a field trip with them. To Teotihuacan. AWESOME. There´s a whole bunch of history, and the grounds are gorgeous. And you can´t escape the fact that there´s two huge pyramids there. Built as temples, one to the sun, the other to the moon. We only climbed the larger, the sun. It had 233 steps and is the EXACT same size as the largest pyramid in Egypt. Which is 233 meters, or something to that effect. Their civilization was SO advanced. It´s 200? 300? yes, I think 300 years AD old. We got to go inside the houses that they had (well, living places) and I stood on floor that is older than Jesus. That is so weird to think...
The other days we have been hanging out. Alison has work until 4, and Carlos.. don´t really know until when, but he usually joins us later at night. I hardly see Carlos´s family, Mama and Papa work, I see them in the evenings. Lorena has both school and work, she´s 22ish. But she´s awesome, we´ve been talking alot, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we both have massive crushes on Johnny Depp. Sweeney Todd hasn´t even been advertised here yet, but Carlos´s friend will... commandeer a copy.. for Lorena to see, of course. I let her borrow my soundtrack to copy and just like me, she listens to it constantly =D What can I say, the fact that Johnny Depp can sing just makes him all the hotter... Carlos, Lorena, and Alison are the only other ones that speak english. Lorenzo, about my age, has school (for which we tease him =D) and he has some English, like I have some Spanish. His cousin.. Heiro (no idea how to spell it...) is completely clueless, but we still tease and somehow communicate.. it´s fun.
Town is awesome. We don´t have anything like this in the states. You can walk down the street and see this absolutely gorgeous medieval looking building, then right next to it this bright colorful hotel or something. There´s this huge area in the center of downtown and it´s just open space With a few fountains and concessions. We saw an ancient tribal dance last night, it was cool. Tonight it was awesome just to be there. All the lights, and just the feeling. There was a huge crowd circled around this street performer telling jokes, a group of emo´s in a corner playing their guitar, guys on roller skates, another group dreading a guys hair, people playing with fire or other bright objects, guys playing the drums.. not a set, but just an awesome beat and dancing.
We went to the Silver Market today and it has all of these little stations under a huge canopy. Selling jewelry, typical Mexican garb, and other cute souveniers. I got a bunch of things, but I´m really proud of my purple poncho that I got, the pink T-Shirt I got my brother that says (100% guapa)(yes, I know guapa refers to a girl.. thus the joke =D) and this gorgeous necklace of roses that is made from really good Mexican silver. Hand made. And haha, I got my dad tequila. It´s just a shot worth, but I figure I can let my brother try as well...
There is just so much culture, and so much is absolutely gorgeous. The streets, the cathedrals, the churches, the shops. I love it. I never want to leave. So much history. So much community. Things that our country only tries to compete with. I can´t even describe, you wouldn´t understand unless you´ve been here... life is just, different here. And not because of the language or economy or government or whatever. Just, on a basic human level... it´s more exciting.
And things are tons cheaper too! =D
The only downsides I can see is the fact that you throw toilet paper into the trash rather than flush it, cold showers (not always necessary, I can go across the street to his parents, I´m just lazy...) and, oh yeah, the crazy drivers. The traffic laws are basically non-existant. As Captain Barbosa would say "they´re more like guidelines than actual rules"
That´s probably enough for now.. Have fun in the cold! =D
Mexico is pretty cool, I´m having a great time.
The street that Alison lives on is absolutely gorgeous. I haven´t seen many paved streets, they´re all stone and such. Anyways, all the houses have these gates out front, really impressive, huge, looks like a front door. Then you open it and it´s a courtyard! Each room has it´s own door off the courtyard, no two connect. And her in-laws live right across the street! So cute!
Anyway, I´m in an internet cafe (very interesting) so I´ll just sketch out an idea....
I love it here. I don´t want to leave. Leaving means school starts. Leaving means I have to return to the freezing cold.
I heard that it was snowing today. Not here. Shorts all the way. I´d be perfectly fine barefooted, but it´s not really practical.
My second day Mary and I went with a group from HCC (how Alison met Carlos - her husband - in the first place) and we went on a field trip with them. To Teotihuacan. AWESOME. There´s a whole bunch of history, and the grounds are gorgeous. And you can´t escape the fact that there´s two huge pyramids there. Built as temples, one to the sun, the other to the moon. We only climbed the larger, the sun. It had 233 steps and is the EXACT same size as the largest pyramid in Egypt. Which is 233 meters, or something to that effect. Their civilization was SO advanced. It´s 200? 300? yes, I think 300 years AD old. We got to go inside the houses that they had (well, living places) and I stood on floor that is older than Jesus. That is so weird to think...
The other days we have been hanging out. Alison has work until 4, and Carlos.. don´t really know until when, but he usually joins us later at night. I hardly see Carlos´s family, Mama and Papa work, I see them in the evenings. Lorena has both school and work, she´s 22ish. But she´s awesome, we´ve been talking alot, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we both have massive crushes on Johnny Depp. Sweeney Todd hasn´t even been advertised here yet, but Carlos´s friend will... commandeer a copy.. for Lorena to see, of course. I let her borrow my soundtrack to copy and just like me, she listens to it constantly =D What can I say, the fact that Johnny Depp can sing just makes him all the hotter... Carlos, Lorena, and Alison are the only other ones that speak english. Lorenzo, about my age, has school (for which we tease him =D) and he has some English, like I have some Spanish. His cousin.. Heiro (no idea how to spell it...) is completely clueless, but we still tease and somehow communicate.. it´s fun.
Town is awesome. We don´t have anything like this in the states. You can walk down the street and see this absolutely gorgeous medieval looking building, then right next to it this bright colorful hotel or something. There´s this huge area in the center of downtown and it´s just open space With a few fountains and concessions. We saw an ancient tribal dance last night, it was cool. Tonight it was awesome just to be there. All the lights, and just the feeling. There was a huge crowd circled around this street performer telling jokes, a group of emo´s in a corner playing their guitar, guys on roller skates, another group dreading a guys hair, people playing with fire or other bright objects, guys playing the drums.. not a set, but just an awesome beat and dancing.
We went to the Silver Market today and it has all of these little stations under a huge canopy. Selling jewelry, typical Mexican garb, and other cute souveniers. I got a bunch of things, but I´m really proud of my purple poncho that I got, the pink T-Shirt I got my brother that says (100% guapa)(yes, I know guapa refers to a girl.. thus the joke =D) and this gorgeous necklace of roses that is made from really good Mexican silver. Hand made. And haha, I got my dad tequila. It´s just a shot worth, but I figure I can let my brother try as well...
There is just so much culture, and so much is absolutely gorgeous. The streets, the cathedrals, the churches, the shops. I love it. I never want to leave. So much history. So much community. Things that our country only tries to compete with. I can´t even describe, you wouldn´t understand unless you´ve been here... life is just, different here. And not because of the language or economy or government or whatever. Just, on a basic human level... it´s more exciting.
And things are tons cheaper too! =D
The only downsides I can see is the fact that you throw toilet paper into the trash rather than flush it, cold showers (not always necessary, I can go across the street to his parents, I´m just lazy...) and, oh yeah, the crazy drivers. The traffic laws are basically non-existant. As Captain Barbosa would say "they´re more like guidelines than actual rules"
That´s probably enough for now.. Have fun in the cold! =D