I am done!!!! and i got a 96 on my final project!!! ahhh now i want to stay.
last night was amazing. i met some mexican kids and they cracked an egg full of confetti on my head. then out with the semiarians then long walk with pete.

good night.
i love queretaro.

lunes y martes monday and tuesday

last monday here, is now over. we made pinattas (sp) in convo class then i did my presentation which went okay, my teacher kept interjecting with information, which was helpful, but not when i had already written my paper. it was an interesting experience. after school i had a nice chat with christian, a mexican student here at the tech that i had interviewed previously for my conversation class. then i headed home and eat comida with paw. after comida i finished up my thank you notes, all but the one for my family. and then finished off my nutella and loaf of bread. yummy. then i headed over to toastmasters, but was way early so i stopped and got some money, and i treated myself to a sweet treat again, pan con azucar. yum. i went to toastmasters and this time people talked to me! ahh.. scary. i had a long conversation with this guy who is working in queretaro and it was his first time at toasties. also with the general evaluator. the director of themes, or the table topics master, asked me if i would like to particpate in the temas, as they call them. ha.. i said no.. ha. maybe next year. came home and went to bed ready to start a busy tuesday.
today i am going out to lunch with my señora and my friend emily and her señora. they are friends and so are we so it works out perfecto. it is an italian resturant that supposably has good pizza.. yum.

guanajauto

i should be preparing to present my paper on the virgen of guadalupe but i have lost some of my motivation, and i think i feel pretty prepared, except for the spanish part which i dont know if that will help me to prepare even more. nearing the end of my trip, and starting to rap thing up... all except school which will go full blast until it is over, or the fat lady sings. i had a nice little vacation, in guanajuato. i saw so many things, i was a bit overwhelmed as i read throught the book but i managed to do everything i really wanted to do, in a relaxed atmposhphere. i had a blast hanging out with the seminarians, and we ate at really good resturants! overall it was a welcome relaxing change from what has been go go go go. it also was a bit of an adventure, i stayed in a hostel, and had to figure out where things were and such. this time next week i will be talking to you all, and not writing on this bloggy.

culinary delights

yesterday was a good day. i went out to waffles at the great waffle place with christy. we had a nice long talk then meandered back to the school of gaby to catch up with the group going to pedro´s reading. Pedro our resident director translated a play. and got some famous actor to read it. it was really interesting, but long and i didnt really understand a lot. then we were on our way home, and decided to walk by the crepe place. and alas, we had to enter for a crepe. we split a banana and chocolate, and a cheese and spinach crepe. SO GOOD. i went home, full of food. but very content.

a mexican outing

heres a classic case of mexican culture. so yesterday i came home and my dad invited me out to comida with the family and his cousin. i accepted, becasue i didnt have very much homework and was hungggry. we got in the car at probably about 2.30. drove for a while stopped at a couple stops, and finally made it to costco. we sat down outside and all shared a pizza. then we wandered around costco for a while coming out with eggs and a bathing suit. the whole excursion took a long time. we returned around 5.30. after that i went on a run. then headed over to coffee brown cafeteria and savored my one dessert of the day una maltada. and did my homework. then i came back and read for a couple hours, watched some TV ate cena. showered and went to bed. a nice relaxing day. today is the cooking class and harry potter! yaya!

yay an interesting post

in DF at the museum of... anthroplogy..


in queretaro on friday night, me waiting for pete and the girls i ended up hanging out with after the seminarians. it was elises 21st birthday the one by me.



this is before the flamanco preformance when we went to this waffle place. it was very cool!! all 60´s ish.





this is at the flamanco preformance on sat night in the centro.






i will not even try to catch up instead i will try and start again. so yesterday i came home to an empty house because my family was driving my sister to her camp. i ate comida and watched the amazing race. sweet! for dessert i had chocolate ice cream with peanut butter and nutella and peanut butter on toast. yum. then i tried to do some studying although the test i am studying for was a bit nebulous... i tried calling some people to find out what actually we were to be studying. everyone was out. i then tried calling people in my neighborhood to go out to coffee or something. once again everyone was out. I called jamie and she was home and agreed to go out to coffee or milk since she doesnt like coffee with me. we met in the middle and headed to brown coffee cafeteria.. ha. nice name huh. i had a latte and a brownie with ice cream yummmy. we had a nice long chat then i headed home for more studying.

update...

a bit of an update.
the past couple days.
wends. went out to comida with a couple girls, some from the 2nd session.

thurs. went home for comida then went to the centro to take a dancing class. it was pretty hard. we learned the cumbo, which i hear is a variation of salsa. then cristy and i hurried home to make arroz con leche with my sister. we ended up all in the kitchen (my brother his friend diego, my sister cristy and i) it was a fun time!
now i just sent off my history paper to a spanish expert who owes me some editing. and this weekend i will be working on my last paper, about a novel i read. it should be a fairly low key weekend consisting of a flamanco on sat, and a leyends tour tonight with peter.

sorry i have not been more consistant on this blogger lately.

once again, hard time because i need to be writing a paper right now. but went to the centro yesterday with cristy to go to the art exhibit. it was great. we each got these huge sweet rolls. they were soo good. covered in icing. then i went home some homework. today after school i am going out to comida with a couple of girls we were going to go to the waffle resturant but, it doesnt open until 4 and we cant wait that long.

once again super busy so not much of an update.
but i got a 87 on my composition. happiest i have ever been about an 87! hope all is well.

mexico city was amazing! this week will be super busy. i will update you all if i have an extra minute or two. some fun things we did in DF were go to the old presidents castle, the cathedral, the national archeological meseum.

i am falling down on my blogging duties. wends watched pans labrinth with the group then went out for food afterwards. yesterday i studied. today i gave a presentation on los tres reyes magos and now am waiting to board the bus to mexico city. DF. i am excited. happy birthday nat. and happy aniversery tomorrow parentals.

4 de julio

yesterday i got a lot accoplished work wise. then i went out to coffee with pete and he filled me in on his year. rode the bus home to a house full of ana paulas friends doing bible study. there was a girl, well i think the leader, who was from philly. it was fun listening to them. i did my homework then did a lot of writing. i need to rejuviate, but here i am not quite sure how. ugh. ate a huge cena, because i didnt have comida yesterday then did some reading... i have not had time to read any of my fun books! then went to bed.
Woke up and...
Happy Fourth of July!
not feeling very energetic today, and still not all better from the 9 peso quesadillas i ate in morelia. i think i may head over to the school to watch pans labrinth. and maybe if dr. merrill fills me in on what they are doing i will go along. we will see.
presentation tomorrow or friday on the tres reyes magos... like our santa.. who would have though..?
enjoy your celebrations! eat some watermelon for me. and a hamburger.

malo.

Yesterday i went to the centro after comida to meet with my composition teacher regarding my composition. i was able to correct a lot of her corrections, with her help. i was amazed that she took the time to meet with me for over an hour and walk me through this. It was super nice, although i can tell she thinks i am not very smart... due to my mistakes. i dont do well editing in english, let alone spanish. She edited my paper due tomorrow and i figured out what changes need to be made. I meandered over to san anotinios and attended mass. then i walked to the bus station and went home to study more for my history test. my family´s cousins were over last night playing the guitarra so the house was hopping. i ate cena, which consisted of cantalope and cerel. yum. today was a long day. early morning got on the bus where the bus driver gave me a mean look when i tried to pay him the student rate. then came to class. where first class convo i did fairly well. we needed to explain something we drew and i thought i was comprehensible. composition was uneventful. break consisted of me editing my paper. and briefly chatting with mom. then i went to history to brave my test. boo.. i dont know how well i did. i knew the info, but the spanish may have killed me. i was the last one to finish and when i came up to turn in my test she handed me another piece of work and said it was muy malo and that i needed to redo it. BOOO. i was so mad. no me gusta este clase. and that assignment... was during our weekend trip we had to go to the library and research this dude. i was the only one who did it at the library everyone else did it at home. ahh stupid. i have been working on my presentation, and redoing that thing. and have more homework tonight. but no i am hungry so i may get something to eat on the way to meet pete for coffee. tomorrow is the 4th... always a weird feeling when you are in a different country.

end of weekend trip and beginning of the week.

another update on the weekend happenings.
we got up for breakfast and i had fruit hot cakes and hot chocolate. then we boarded the bus, late as usual and headed for the muellas (docks) we then took a boat over to the island that starts with a P. and walked around there a bit. it was quite touristy but it has this big monument and we got to climb all the way up, and stick our heads out the top. it was literally a hole that you can stand on this ledge and hoist yourself up to squeeze out to top. it probably wasnt too safe, but it was beautiful. then we went to santa clara de cobre and watched copper artisians at work. then came back home and raced to try and buy some churros, the churro lady was closed, and so darcy and I went and ate some cake at little cafe. we joined jamie and megan for dinner and chatted for a bit then went back our room to continue our chat. the next day we checked out of the hotel and went to a little town to see very old olive trees, and ruins. the scenery was once again amazing. the clouds here are so fluffly. :) i took an insane amount of pictures. we then drove to morelia to get comida. jamie megan and I ventured out to this whole in the wall place, where i ate lunch a chicken quesidilla and water for a dollar fifty. i think it made me kind of sick, but it was the true mexican flavor. then i got coffee and headed back to the city center to try and get on the tour bus, and find a pay phone. i tried calling peter like 10 times but i could not get the hang of the telephone so i gave up and went to find the tour. as it turns out, the tour that our RD pedro had planned was closed, and i was the only student who wanted to go on it. I went on a guided tour of the city by pedro and cecila. we went to an extraordinary church, and thier native language is spanish so they got us into this convent to see it. it was pretty cool. i ended up asking him for advice on the academic situation, and he gave me 0 help. ha. got intouch with pete because david also from last year is visiting and i wanted to say hello to him before he left. unfortunatly before we could solidify plans, the bells in the cathedral started ringing, and that was the end of that. we got back way later than i or anyone else expected. the thing said 6.30 got in at 8.30. but i managed to meet up with pete and david for a little while in jardin zenia while watching the dancing. i cut out early to try and catch the bus, and that attepmt failed. i hailed a taxi after about 45 min of waiting and trying to get one. went home to an empty house. unpacked and went to bed. Tonight is toastmasters, and i really want to go at least once before i leave. but i got my first essay back and got worse than i did on my first test. i am heading to the centro to meet with her directly after comida. man. i dont even get a break to breathe.