aight ya'll well i know i've been a lazy mofoe and haven't posted shit in along ass time but now I am so bored and am truly in the spirit of procrastinating that I am once again going to write something.
First of all I DON'T HAVE SWINE FLU!!!
aight well that's answered now let's see what the hell i can remember from the past couple of months...
so yesterday I came back from a two day trip to my hot family's houses on the beach, it was pretty tight since we wr just relaxing at the beach. I got darker than I already am (working on killing tha farmers tan! I actually already killed it since I'm oretty much an even color all over now, no more deep contrast between my upper and lower arm!) I ate some fried fish, ceciche, tortas, even had some wine with the family. Had lots of fun swimming in the ocean and in the pool that's in the yard of the house. I think I finally learned how to swim!!! but we'll put that to test some other time. I had fun playing witht the grandkids, they would stand on my shoulders and then they would jump off into the water, or I would throw them up in the air and then they'd fall in teh water. I had to stop that cause I almost threw one of them out of the swimming pool!
lets see.. oh yeah we had our program funded visit to the Inframundo Maya! that shit was amazing (ok i should just say what you all already expect me to say: It was fuckin tight!!! hahaha) I took a shot with our prof. (who was also in charge of us durign the trip) he almost got into a fight with a bunch of taxi drivers, i wanna be like him when i grow up (then again Chris and Joe also wanna be like him, they are obseessed with him now I would even say that they have a man crush on him, its bromance! hahaha). There was a fieston playero while we wr there so we went to the party at night every night and danced with the locals, and of course we also had some zippy zippy before hand. I never thoght I would be partying in Tulum right on the MAyan Riviera!!
Oh yeah I also got to participate in a beach soccer tournament! yeah man!!! Me and mandy wr sitting on the sideline of the soccer field when a random guy asks me if i wanted to play in his team, to what i respond: hell yeah!!! (well it was in spanish of course). well i played the sport i love, but let me tell u that playing soccer on the sand is a beach! hahaha (i meant to say bitch! ha ha ha i am so funny huh?!) I ended up tired like a mofoe, i wasn;t able to score a goal but i came pretty darn close to doing so = ( oh well at least i had a good time, oh yeah that i mention that a bunch of the players on my team wr drunk!!
We visited a bunch of cenotes (underwater water deposit thingies) and they wr amazing, had crystal clear water, shit was so transparent that you could see the bottom of it even though it was like 50 m. deep!!! practiced some "swimming" there although I had donut to keep me afloat. the cenotes wr underground, open and at ground level, open but still deep wr you had to go dwon stairs and shit, in conclusion they wr the best thing to swim in with their cool refreshing waters!
Oh yeah and we also visited a bunch of mayan ruins, one of the most impressive ones was ek balam wr they had this temple dedicated to some king which had the most intricate stucco sculptures, u could of though that it was carved by the ancient greeks or something but it was even more impressive. there i finally saw how these ancient ruins are found: they are all just a bunch of rubble covered in dirt (this i know now cuase there wr a bunch of mounds around the already restored temples at ek balam!
Tulum was also pretty cool cause this was a mayan city located right on the caribbean ocean, and if i can remember correctly it's the only mayan city that's located on the beach and it has a beautiful view of the Caribbean!
damn yo i can;t member what else i did... i mean if done a shit ton of stuff but i just can;t remember at this moment. ok lets do this: i'll cut it off at this right now and in a couple of days i'll write about other shit i've done aight? well thanks for reading this even though i've been a bum and forgotten about ya'll. fo sho i'll be back soon.
latez.
-Gustavo
mucho aburrido estar yo!!
jajaja perdon mis gringuitos pero pues que quieren que haga si ya he convivido con ustedes por un buen tiempo que se me esta pegando = ) jajajajaj
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
bumbness on 25 de Febrero de 2009
I'ma bumb, i'm tired, i'll just let ya'll know that i had one of the craziest weekends of my life!!
i spent the night a t a beach with complete strangers, i drank a lot of wine, dance at a party full of transexuals, went to carnaval, ate in a restaurant that is completely dark, rode an inflatable banana through the beach, and other stuff that i'll write about hopefully tomorow or later on tonight.
c]:}D
i spent the night a t a beach with complete strangers, i drank a lot of wine, dance at a party full of transexuals, went to carnaval, ate in a restaurant that is completely dark, rode an inflatable banana through the beach, and other stuff that i'll write about hopefully tomorow or later on tonight.
c]:}D
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
17 de Ferero de 2009
well once again i've been a bum, but since we all know that already I guess it don't really matter anymore, so let's get on with this thing.
so for reasons out of my control (not really i just like thinking that i haven't been procrastinating as much) i am very sleep deprived right now in the past couple of days i've only been getting an avg 2-maybe 3 hours of sleep a night! But tonight i will try and go to sleep early (let's just hope early doesn't turn into early morning).
as always let me sum up my weekend.
Thursday
didn't do anything, or at least don't remember i did. hmm... oh wait never mind i did go to a UADY party (shit or was it Friday?) never mind i didn't do anythign on thursday cause i needed to catch up on sleep.
Friday
After checking my txt msgs I figured out that i went to the UADY party on Friday!
OK so the peeps left their houses at 6pm which for me is early as fuck to get to a party, unless it's like a... i don;t know but u get me. So me and Hortencia decided to leave a little bit later: 7ish.
No one really knoew how the hell to get to where the party was gonna be at so Hortencia and I fugured we would just call at 7 and hopefully ppl would already be there and then they would telll us how they got there. Well we called at like 7:45 time at which no one was there yet so we only recieved half assed directions. we looked for the famous bus 82 to Garcia Generez and it took us like half an hour to find it and finally get on our way. It seems liek it also took us another half an hour to get to the damn bus stop!!!! anyways after frantically trying to figure out where the damn gasolinerias Gemelas where at we got off and satrted walking on an endless path to nowhere, we ended up in some sketchy little unpaved road in God-knows-where Merida! So we called Nandini, but she didn;t know how to get to the place so I talked to Hector (guy who works at the UADy, who is our age, and that was with Nandini). During orientation i was told that Meridianos didn't knwo shit how to give directions and my good old chum Hector was the clear example of it!!! anyways he went out of the party to go look for us and finally found us, oh yeah i almost forgot: i had also callled Eric to ask for directions btu he also didn't know where the hell he was. But yeah so the first thing HEctor tells me is that all the beer was gone! I'm like wait wtf? how he hell does the beer end at damn 9pm? so me, hortencia, and eric decide to go get some drinks for the party at a near-by store. hmm... The store owner was talking shit about obama, and how he;s gonna paint the white house black and a bunch of ridonculous shit! but yeah that's that. We got to the party and HEctor warned me that evryone would want to try and take my beer, to which i'm like hell nah mothar fucker i'm guarding this shit with my life ( i mean i don;t like beer that much but i had spent money on that shit!) so yeah ppl didi ask me for beer but i said nah, i only gave some to my frineds.
I dance a lot! they were playing rancheras, cumbias, reggeaton, merengue,and everything else you can think of that reminds you of me! Me and Ashley hit the dance floor, and the other peeps too, but m and ashley were just on a roll, some ppl threw ice at me i think cause they were hating on my dance moves or something, i almost got into a fight with my unkown assailant (i din;t see who it was so it was aight). but yeah dance all night till 10:50 when we were told that there was gonna be an after party at the facultad de arquitectura. Oh wait before that some weird guy was trying to dance on me! o at least back up on me. He just went up to me and ashley (i guess cause we were the only ones on the dance floor at that time) and he asked if he could dance with us, to shich i replied sure man go ahead. then he proceeded to try and get me into a sandwich with me as the filling and hima dn ashley as the cookies!!!! shit! i said umm... nah man i'm good to what he then said alright then well let me get in the center then and he started backing up on me! I asked ashley for help and put her in fornt of me! I mean i'm flattered but i just don't roll like that yo, and plus if ur gonna do that u shoud try and be a little bit less sketchy.
so yeah we headed ofer to the after party in downtown Merida (which by the way was deserted) and when we got there we found out that the fucken architecture students weren;t letting in ppl from other facultades! shti talk about campus unity!
so i proposed we go to a near by bar and just chikk there, to what amazingly everyone agreed to! i was hungry so i headed in to the bar and ordered some hot wings! but then someone decided we should go tot a "cooler" bar and chill there, i was like nah you that shit is too far away and i'm about to get me some grub. well there wr lilke three girls begging me to go (cause apparently I had become the pac leader!) so they convinced me (i mean i can;t say no to some lovely ladies = ) ) so we walked for liek 10-15 minutes and we finally got to the other pub. I immediatly ordered a huge ass plate of NACHOS!!!!! well actually me and Ashley ordered them. So we went at it, dayum yo know that i think about it that was a shit load of nachos that went onto my system!! but ashley had her fair share too so it was less of a load on me. we left at around 1:30am. Oh yeah and Hetor was so fucken drunk that he was getting freaking anying ass hell! he was throwing napkins at me, shouting at the cops, starign at hortencia, adn well a bunch of shit that almos tmade me clip the mofoe!
So i got home at 2 am and fell asleep. I had to wake up at 5am to go to Hoy en tu comunidad (community service thing)
Saturday
so it started off very early at 5am, i had only gotten 3 hours of sleep!!! i woke up took a shower,a dn walked to the bus stop at 6am 9 (i have to admit that i was a bit paranoid walking down the damn dark streets so early in the morning, and plus i wasn't wuite sure how the hell i was gonna get there yet! but anyways i got on a bus which then dropped me off like two blocks form where i was suppossed to go. i almost got lost in my two block trayectory! but i got to the place (facultad de medicina) at like 15 till 7, we are suppossed to get there at 7 sharp but it seems no one really gave a shit about punctuality = /
so from my prgram there wr only liek 4 ppl signed up to go on the trip, but there was 8 of us that showed up (with 6 being the max that can go at a single time!) the program director didn;t care and we all got in.
Once there we ate some empanadas, then we were sent odd with thte nthropolgy kids that wr gonna be doing anthropologic research around the town (chemayul or chemayel, i forget what its called). we went ot interview ppl at the church, they told us about there Cristo Negro (yup a Balck Jesus!) and of their fiestas patronales (their like big town celebration-that's connected to a patron saint). then we went around hoses asking them about their hammock making pratices. I got to feel like i was back in the little rural pueblo of La Bolsa, Guerrero where I lived from age 10-16!!! I got to talk to the ppl at the houses about their cattle, the differnt fruit trees they had, and of other practices.
After the long ass walk around town under a scorching 95 degree sun we went to visit some cool Cenotes that wr 9km away but bcause of the shitty conditions of the road took us two hours to get to and back from them!!! but they wr amazing! i wanted to jump in but since my ass don;t know how to swim i would have been screwed! but yeah we got back really late when everyone was presenting on their findings and what they did all day. we ate smoe nasty ass relleno negro, which i have no idea what it was but all i know was that it had some chicken in it. I threw it away cause aparte de que estaba frio (cold) sabia ano muy bueno, por no decir otra cosa. so we head back home ona nother 1.5 houe ride back to merida. on the bus they were playing Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which was a crappy move but which was aight for wasting the time i was on the bus.
I go back home at liek 7pm, so i took a shoer to get ready to head out to Amarantus (another rich ppl club) for Erica's b-day celebration. Me, ashley, and mallory go to the place at like 12 am cuas since it was valentine's day all the damn taxis in Merida wr busy! but yeah i also dance a lot at the club, didn;t drink cause the vodka they gave us (i'm guessing cause of the open bar) tasted liek rubbing alcohol and water! so i just danced and danced!
we got out of the club at 4am! now as of that ime had been 23 hours straight without sleep! abd yet agian being V day there weren;t any damn taxis available, and plus there wr also a shit load of ppl standin outside of the club to get a taxi!
so we got a ride from a guy that goes to the UADY with us adn i got homeat around 5 adn then checked facebook and passd the fuck out! (sorry for all my cussing today but i do fell like it;s appropiate to emphasize the craziness tthat was my weekend.
Sunday
woke up at 2pm. was a dum and then started working on a presentation for the next day for my anthro of caves class. I found out that the presentation isn't actually until tomorrow, but oh well i guess that's done with so i'm good. I stayed up till 4am thought working on the damn thing!
oh well
Monday
Stayed up till 2:30 finishing a presentation ( i know it seems liek this shita ain;t ever gonna end huh?) then I saw that Alona had pasted a link to her blog: FMyLife.com, now this shit made me saty up till 4am!!! again!!! i read liek 25 pages of efd up moments int ehlife of other ppl. So if u think u have it bad just check out the stories of these folks and it'll really put things into perspective, ur life ain;t that fucked up! well at least mine isn't (or so I would liek to believe).
random:
i have class everyday monday trhough friday form 3-6om all this week, it;s for my Indigenous author Seminar class, the course is split up into 3 modules and this is the 2nd one with the 2nd professor, who's from Arizona State and will only ne here this week, so that explains the schedule.
I shoud get ot sleeping asap.
you fools better comment on this thing cause it took me a long time to write it! and my hands are hurting!!! i mean you already took the time to read all of it so just go ahead and commetn yo!
Oh yeah and I ralized i really, really liek smart women!! this student went onto our clas to sub for our prof, and she presented her thesis on teh readings we had done: La guagua aerea (and which i also presented on) . Now this girl aint the epitomy of fine, but the way she talked and teh way she presented just had me anonadado (basically stupified). but yeah i was amazed at her intelligence, and well she did have other nice things too if u know what i mean ; )
aight well till next time, latez from Merida,
Gustavo Arambula
c]:}D
"I pitty the fool who don't comment"
-Mr. Me
so for reasons out of my control (not really i just like thinking that i haven't been procrastinating as much) i am very sleep deprived right now in the past couple of days i've only been getting an avg 2-maybe 3 hours of sleep a night! But tonight i will try and go to sleep early (let's just hope early doesn't turn into early morning).
as always let me sum up my weekend.
Thursday
didn't do anything, or at least don't remember i did. hmm... oh wait never mind i did go to a UADY party (shit or was it Friday?) never mind i didn't do anythign on thursday cause i needed to catch up on sleep.
Friday
After checking my txt msgs I figured out that i went to the UADY party on Friday!
OK so the peeps left their houses at 6pm which for me is early as fuck to get to a party, unless it's like a... i don;t know but u get me. So me and Hortencia decided to leave a little bit later: 7ish.
No one really knoew how the hell to get to where the party was gonna be at so Hortencia and I fugured we would just call at 7 and hopefully ppl would already be there and then they would telll us how they got there. Well we called at like 7:45 time at which no one was there yet so we only recieved half assed directions. we looked for the famous bus 82 to Garcia Generez and it took us like half an hour to find it and finally get on our way. It seems liek it also took us another half an hour to get to the damn bus stop!!!! anyways after frantically trying to figure out where the damn gasolinerias Gemelas where at we got off and satrted walking on an endless path to nowhere, we ended up in some sketchy little unpaved road in God-knows-where Merida! So we called Nandini, but she didn;t know how to get to the place so I talked to Hector (guy who works at the UADy, who is our age, and that was with Nandini). During orientation i was told that Meridianos didn't knwo shit how to give directions and my good old chum Hector was the clear example of it!!! anyways he went out of the party to go look for us and finally found us, oh yeah i almost forgot: i had also callled Eric to ask for directions btu he also didn't know where the hell he was. But yeah so the first thing HEctor tells me is that all the beer was gone! I'm like wait wtf? how he hell does the beer end at damn 9pm? so me, hortencia, and eric decide to go get some drinks for the party at a near-by store. hmm... The store owner was talking shit about obama, and how he;s gonna paint the white house black and a bunch of ridonculous shit! but yeah that's that. We got to the party and HEctor warned me that evryone would want to try and take my beer, to which i'm like hell nah mothar fucker i'm guarding this shit with my life ( i mean i don;t like beer that much but i had spent money on that shit!) so yeah ppl didi ask me for beer but i said nah, i only gave some to my frineds.
I dance a lot! they were playing rancheras, cumbias, reggeaton, merengue,and everything else you can think of that reminds you of me! Me and Ashley hit the dance floor, and the other peeps too, but m and ashley were just on a roll, some ppl threw ice at me i think cause they were hating on my dance moves or something, i almost got into a fight with my unkown assailant (i din;t see who it was so it was aight). but yeah dance all night till 10:50 when we were told that there was gonna be an after party at the facultad de arquitectura. Oh wait before that some weird guy was trying to dance on me! o at least back up on me. He just went up to me and ashley (i guess cause we were the only ones on the dance floor at that time) and he asked if he could dance with us, to shich i replied sure man go ahead. then he proceeded to try and get me into a sandwich with me as the filling and hima dn ashley as the cookies!!!! shit! i said umm... nah man i'm good to what he then said alright then well let me get in the center then and he started backing up on me! I asked ashley for help and put her in fornt of me! I mean i'm flattered but i just don't roll like that yo, and plus if ur gonna do that u shoud try and be a little bit less sketchy.
so yeah we headed ofer to the after party in downtown Merida (which by the way was deserted) and when we got there we found out that the fucken architecture students weren;t letting in ppl from other facultades! shti talk about campus unity!
so i proposed we go to a near by bar and just chikk there, to what amazingly everyone agreed to! i was hungry so i headed in to the bar and ordered some hot wings! but then someone decided we should go tot a "cooler" bar and chill there, i was like nah you that shit is too far away and i'm about to get me some grub. well there wr lilke three girls begging me to go (cause apparently I had become the pac leader!) so they convinced me (i mean i can;t say no to some lovely ladies = ) ) so we walked for liek 10-15 minutes and we finally got to the other pub. I immediatly ordered a huge ass plate of NACHOS!!!!! well actually me and Ashley ordered them. So we went at it, dayum yo know that i think about it that was a shit load of nachos that went onto my system!! but ashley had her fair share too so it was less of a load on me. we left at around 1:30am. Oh yeah and Hetor was so fucken drunk that he was getting freaking anying ass hell! he was throwing napkins at me, shouting at the cops, starign at hortencia, adn well a bunch of shit that almos tmade me clip the mofoe!
So i got home at 2 am and fell asleep. I had to wake up at 5am to go to Hoy en tu comunidad (community service thing)
Saturday
so it started off very early at 5am, i had only gotten 3 hours of sleep!!! i woke up took a shower,a dn walked to the bus stop at 6am 9 (i have to admit that i was a bit paranoid walking down the damn dark streets so early in the morning, and plus i wasn't wuite sure how the hell i was gonna get there yet! but anyways i got on a bus which then dropped me off like two blocks form where i was suppossed to go. i almost got lost in my two block trayectory! but i got to the place (facultad de medicina) at like 15 till 7, we are suppossed to get there at 7 sharp but it seems no one really gave a shit about punctuality = /
so from my prgram there wr only liek 4 ppl signed up to go on the trip, but there was 8 of us that showed up (with 6 being the max that can go at a single time!) the program director didn;t care and we all got in.
Once there we ate some empanadas, then we were sent odd with thte nthropolgy kids that wr gonna be doing anthropologic research around the town (chemayul or chemayel, i forget what its called). we went ot interview ppl at the church, they told us about there Cristo Negro (yup a Balck Jesus!) and of their fiestas patronales (their like big town celebration-that's connected to a patron saint). then we went around hoses asking them about their hammock making pratices. I got to feel like i was back in the little rural pueblo of La Bolsa, Guerrero where I lived from age 10-16!!! I got to talk to the ppl at the houses about their cattle, the differnt fruit trees they had, and of other practices.
After the long ass walk around town under a scorching 95 degree sun we went to visit some cool Cenotes that wr 9km away but bcause of the shitty conditions of the road took us two hours to get to and back from them!!! but they wr amazing! i wanted to jump in but since my ass don;t know how to swim i would have been screwed! but yeah we got back really late when everyone was presenting on their findings and what they did all day. we ate smoe nasty ass relleno negro, which i have no idea what it was but all i know was that it had some chicken in it. I threw it away cause aparte de que estaba frio (cold) sabia ano muy bueno, por no decir otra cosa. so we head back home ona nother 1.5 houe ride back to merida. on the bus they were playing Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which was a crappy move but which was aight for wasting the time i was on the bus.
I go back home at liek 7pm, so i took a shoer to get ready to head out to Amarantus (another rich ppl club) for Erica's b-day celebration. Me, ashley, and mallory go to the place at like 12 am cuas since it was valentine's day all the damn taxis in Merida wr busy! but yeah i also dance a lot at the club, didn;t drink cause the vodka they gave us (i'm guessing cause of the open bar) tasted liek rubbing alcohol and water! so i just danced and danced!
we got out of the club at 4am! now as of that ime had been 23 hours straight without sleep! abd yet agian being V day there weren;t any damn taxis available, and plus there wr also a shit load of ppl standin outside of the club to get a taxi!
so we got a ride from a guy that goes to the UADY with us adn i got homeat around 5 adn then checked facebook and passd the fuck out! (sorry for all my cussing today but i do fell like it;s appropiate to emphasize the craziness tthat was my weekend.
Sunday
woke up at 2pm. was a dum and then started working on a presentation for the next day for my anthro of caves class. I found out that the presentation isn't actually until tomorrow, but oh well i guess that's done with so i'm good. I stayed up till 4am thought working on the damn thing!
oh well
Monday
Stayed up till 2:30 finishing a presentation ( i know it seems liek this shita ain;t ever gonna end huh?) then I saw that Alona had pasted a link to her blog: FMyLife.com, now this shit made me saty up till 4am!!! again!!! i read liek 25 pages of efd up moments int ehlife of other ppl. So if u think u have it bad just check out the stories of these folks and it'll really put things into perspective, ur life ain;t that fucked up! well at least mine isn't (or so I would liek to believe).
random:
i have class everyday monday trhough friday form 3-6om all this week, it;s for my Indigenous author Seminar class, the course is split up into 3 modules and this is the 2nd one with the 2nd professor, who's from Arizona State and will only ne here this week, so that explains the schedule.
I shoud get ot sleeping asap.
you fools better comment on this thing cause it took me a long time to write it! and my hands are hurting!!! i mean you already took the time to read all of it so just go ahead and commetn yo!
Oh yeah and I ralized i really, really liek smart women!! this student went onto our clas to sub for our prof, and she presented her thesis on teh readings we had done: La guagua aerea (and which i also presented on) . Now this girl aint the epitomy of fine, but the way she talked and teh way she presented just had me anonadado (basically stupified). but yeah i was amazed at her intelligence, and well she did have other nice things too if u know what i mean ; )
aight well till next time, latez from Merida,
Gustavo Arambula
c]:}D
"I pitty the fool who don't comment"
-Mr. Me
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
10 de Febrero de 2009, my Bro's B-Day!!!!
Hey Carlos: Feliz cumpleanios wey!!! que te la pases bien, y ahorita te veo por msn video!!! damn ya estas bien viejo, ya tienes 20 aniotes!! pinche hermanito ya no mas ahora hermanote!!!!
aight so i'm back.
Let's see here, let's go back to wednesday.
It was Joe's B-day so a bunch of us went out to dinner at this italian place called italianis (original huh). i had this zucchini and parmesan soup, an alfredo somethign pasta, and a soda all for just 99 pesos (that's not even 10 bucks!). After the dinner we went to this bar accross the street from the restaurant called Time. I had a little bit of Tequila Herradura reposado (i'm trying to try as many tequilas as ican while i'm over here so that by the time i get back to the states i know what's up!). we headed out at like 10:45 cause the buses stopped running at 11, but to our surprise the mofoes weren;t running since 10! damn and i though LA buses sucked!
Thhursday
i decided to stay in for the night since i had been spending too much money, my throat was bothering me again, ad my stomach was hurting (it's actually still bothering me! = I ) It was good though cause i got to rest and i got better = )
Friday
Now Friday was a bit of an akward day. Leticia invited me to this one house party that she had got invited to by this girla named Landi, who is in one of her classes. So the plan was to meet at el centro and then head on over to the party right. well we got there, leticia couldn;t find the ppl so we walked around for a bit in search of them. we finally found them. we walked a shit load just to get to a super market and buy some drinks. I decide to buy some "100 Anos"tequila, its pretty good, has a very smooth taste = ). we finally got on the bus and headed over to the party, it was actually pretty close to my house! but anyways i had a blast at the party. it was a bunch of ppl from the UADY adn they were all really chill! i talked to a lot of them, i made new friends, and talked a lot of our goals in life! there was this one girl with beautiful eyes! there was this other girl that was pretty fine, but i didn;t hit on any of them cause all i wanted to do was just chill and have a good time = ) maybe in the near future, maybe not, we'll see.Oh yeah we drank like four differt drinks! mexcal, tequila, beer, some type of mixed drink. I almost had my first hang-over ever but i didn't! i woke up sort of nauseus, but i think it was my precious stomach problems coming back, but then i was good.
Saturday
Me, hortencia and leticia met up at el centro again. since i was late on friday i think they planned to make me wait for them this time! i fucken waited for 40 minutes!! anyways we went over to LA 68 and watched a documentary, it was about thes oaxaquenos crossing the border to go play music in their hometowns. it was kinda wack, there was a white guy sort of narrating and producing the documetnary so it seemed llike (to quote leticia) he was romanticizing the idea of crossing the border, adn talking about undocumetnted workers as noble savages (this last part was mine). bitch plz u ain;t telling me what i already KNOW!!!!! But yeah after the doc we went to "Mayan Pub" we had a couple of drinks (i had the "mayan pub" drink) and we chilled to live reggea music! Then we went in search of another bar, we got to this bar and it was wack!!! so we walked for like 8 blocks in deserted downtown merida till we found another bar which was even wacker then the one b4!!!!!! anyways leticia payed for a taxi and we went back to Mayan Pub = ) then we went home and had a good nights sleep.
Sunday I was up till 4am monday morning working on a antropologia de las cavernas presentation. so i went to sleep woke up at 8am, finished up the presentation and then found out at 10am (an hour b4 i had to take the bus to school) that i had done the wrong reading for my presentation!!!! shit!!!!! well i ended up going into my profs office adn telling him what had happend, he asked me if i wanted to present the presentation, valga la redundancia, anyways (this meant presenting after my frined rachel had presented on the same damn topic!) I said no, cause it would seem of bad taste to do that, i took full responsibility for what i had done adn if it meant me loosing 10 pints from my grade then i took that responsibility for my stupidity. it turned out that someone else ( agirl taht never went to class) had prepared the presenation i was supossed to do and it all turne out ok. i had already sent my professor my powerpoint presentation so later on in the afternoon he e-mailed me saying that he had seen my presentation and that it was so good taht he would count it towards my grade even though i didnt;t officially present it!!!!!!!!!!1 Wow God works in mysterious ways = )
now i'm getting sleepy after efen up my sleeping patter on sunday adn then again yesterday, so i think imma hit the sak and catch some zzzzzzz.....
aigh then well u guys take care, if u took the time to read the whole damn thing why the hell not comment? i mean ur already here right, adn plus i know u came cause of the nifty little traking device i have to the right of the screen = )
take care ya'll and mmeber to do ur HWk, i learned that it pays off!!!!
almost forgot my trademark smiley!! c]:}D
aight so i'm back.
Let's see here, let's go back to wednesday.
It was Joe's B-day so a bunch of us went out to dinner at this italian place called italianis (original huh). i had this zucchini and parmesan soup, an alfredo somethign pasta, and a soda all for just 99 pesos (that's not even 10 bucks!). After the dinner we went to this bar accross the street from the restaurant called Time. I had a little bit of Tequila Herradura reposado (i'm trying to try as many tequilas as ican while i'm over here so that by the time i get back to the states i know what's up!). we headed out at like 10:45 cause the buses stopped running at 11, but to our surprise the mofoes weren;t running since 10! damn and i though LA buses sucked!
Thhursday
i decided to stay in for the night since i had been spending too much money, my throat was bothering me again, ad my stomach was hurting (it's actually still bothering me! = I ) It was good though cause i got to rest and i got better = )
Friday
Now Friday was a bit of an akward day. Leticia invited me to this one house party that she had got invited to by this girla named Landi, who is in one of her classes. So the plan was to meet at el centro and then head on over to the party right. well we got there, leticia couldn;t find the ppl so we walked around for a bit in search of them. we finally found them. we walked a shit load just to get to a super market and buy some drinks. I decide to buy some "100 Anos"tequila, its pretty good, has a very smooth taste = ). we finally got on the bus and headed over to the party, it was actually pretty close to my house! but anyways i had a blast at the party. it was a bunch of ppl from the UADY adn they were all really chill! i talked to a lot of them, i made new friends, and talked a lot of our goals in life! there was this one girl with beautiful eyes! there was this other girl that was pretty fine, but i didn;t hit on any of them cause all i wanted to do was just chill and have a good time = ) maybe in the near future, maybe not, we'll see.Oh yeah we drank like four differt drinks! mexcal, tequila, beer, some type of mixed drink. I almost had my first hang-over ever but i didn't! i woke up sort of nauseus, but i think it was my precious stomach problems coming back, but then i was good.
Saturday
Me, hortencia and leticia met up at el centro again. since i was late on friday i think they planned to make me wait for them this time! i fucken waited for 40 minutes!! anyways we went over to LA 68 and watched a documentary, it was about thes oaxaquenos crossing the border to go play music in their hometowns. it was kinda wack, there was a white guy sort of narrating and producing the documetnary so it seemed llike (to quote leticia) he was romanticizing the idea of crossing the border, adn talking about undocumetnted workers as noble savages (this last part was mine). bitch plz u ain;t telling me what i already KNOW!!!!! But yeah after the doc we went to "Mayan Pub" we had a couple of drinks (i had the "mayan pub" drink) and we chilled to live reggea music! Then we went in search of another bar, we got to this bar and it was wack!!! so we walked for like 8 blocks in deserted downtown merida till we found another bar which was even wacker then the one b4!!!!!! anyways leticia payed for a taxi and we went back to Mayan Pub = ) then we went home and had a good nights sleep.
Sunday I was up till 4am monday morning working on a antropologia de las cavernas presentation. so i went to sleep woke up at 8am, finished up the presentation and then found out at 10am (an hour b4 i had to take the bus to school) that i had done the wrong reading for my presentation!!!! shit!!!!! well i ended up going into my profs office adn telling him what had happend, he asked me if i wanted to present the presentation, valga la redundancia, anyways (this meant presenting after my frined rachel had presented on the same damn topic!) I said no, cause it would seem of bad taste to do that, i took full responsibility for what i had done adn if it meant me loosing 10 pints from my grade then i took that responsibility for my stupidity. it turned out that someone else ( agirl taht never went to class) had prepared the presenation i was supossed to do and it all turne out ok. i had already sent my professor my powerpoint presentation so later on in the afternoon he e-mailed me saying that he had seen my presentation and that it was so good taht he would count it towards my grade even though i didnt;t officially present it!!!!!!!!!!1 Wow God works in mysterious ways = )
now i'm getting sleepy after efen up my sleeping patter on sunday adn then again yesterday, so i think imma hit the sak and catch some zzzzzzz.....
aigh then well u guys take care, if u took the time to read the whole damn thing why the hell not comment? i mean ur already here right, adn plus i know u came cause of the nifty little traking device i have to the right of the screen = )
take care ya'll and mmeber to do ur HWk, i learned that it pays off!!!!
almost forgot my trademark smiley!! c]:}D
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
3 de Febrero de 2009
Once again i've been a lazy bum and haven't posted much!
Let's see... Well i haven't done hwk for like an entire week so that's gonna come back and bite me on the ass!!!
I'm getting kinda tired of the club seen over here, there are just full of rich snobby ass sketchy rich guys who think they are the shit! ah man i really wanted to sock this one mother fucker who after i said that in the US they give u drug tests when u go apply for some jobs to what this mofoe replied that "oh well i don;t have to worry about that, i've never worked, all i've done is at my daddy's business" oh my god please give me the strenght to not knock one of these mother fuckers out. Oh yeah another thing i've noticed is that all these guys always tellm e that they're part of the seleccion nacional de mexico for some random ass sport. this scrawny little 16 year old (who was in the club illegally) told me he was part of the mexican hockey team! i'm all like bitch please, i mean i didn;t say that but i thought it. then this other guy tells me he got ascholarship to go to LSU and play soccer (this guy i might believe a lil bit more but i'm still doubtful) he said he stayed here cause he just likes it so much here. oh yeah and they've all been to canada! anyways i should probably stop talking about these doubtfull-of-shit jokers,
i miss grinnell parties.
well I did have fun at Cantabar, which is a Kareoke/club, and it was our friend Ingrid's B-Day, well not really cause her b-day is actually today. But i had fun there just chillin and having a couple of drinks.
I actually made a new discovery thanks to Hortencia (another girl from my program). We went to the showing of a documentary at this place called LA 68 (it's a cultural center that i'm pretty sure is run by this one family). It was pretty tight they were showing the doc outside, they have an old spanish house wiht a patio inside and that's where they showed it. there wr a lot of old white ppl there, i mean there was like 2 or 3 kids our age, but it was pretty nice, they offer a drink service and food service. They have some pretty good looking pizzas up in there. I tried this helado de lima (lime ice-cream) with hierbabuena (don;t know what you call this in eng), it was an interestign taste, i didn;t it like it much so i let hortencia eat most of it. I'll probably be hitting that place up more often.
I almost forgot to mention that on our way to LA 68 we saw this punk rock place, they were blasting the punk music and there was this punk store right next door which had some kinky ass leather corset thingy and other leather or whatever stuff. it's crazy what things one will find in such a small city!
right now i'm sitting here trying to make myself start y dang hwk but blogging seemed to distract me.
man i didn;t think i would say this but i actually miss Grinnell academics! fuck yo over here we have to make copies of everything! (talk about copyright infringement!) but i mean it odesn;t sound bad right? well here's the deal we have to make copies of fucken txts that are in different liraries around merida, then if we cant find the damn book we have to chase ppl around to either ask them for thir copies or take the damn book away from them. then i have a prof that always tells us that he'll leave the txts at the copy room but he never fucken does!!!!! shit i don;t have the readings for tomorrow for that class! i went to his office today but he wasn;t there, my friend rachel, who;s also in my class also went to his office on thrusday and friday and he wasn't there!! shit man i wish they had blackboard over here!!!!!
oh yeah i slept through my 8-10am class on thursday, that's the first one this semester, hopefully i won;t do that again.
I've been talking alot about race and otherness in my Caribbean lit class which is pretty interesting, i get to practice talking about race in spanish! now i can probably argue with my racist family members = ), yo don;t get me wrong i mean my family is racist but there mexicans so u gotta understand them a little bit, oh yeah i've also been talking about how we mexicans are pretty racist, that;s in my indigenous author seminar class. damn yo the gov over here (Mexico) has really worked hard to fuck over any type of otherness in a population that to quote vasconcelos is the "raza cosmica" and can;t be different. even through language the gov has been fucking up the "other" but i'll talk more about that when i feel like being all deep and whatnot.
aight well for some strange reason my laptop is going to restart itself cause of some damn updates or something so i'll hopefully see u guys soon.
thanks for stalking me and u should leave a comment yo! c];}D
oh yeah and listen to this song it's the shit! we got alex syntek, sin bandera guy, david bisbal, and luis fonsi!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAVK_lofFeA
Let's see... Well i haven't done hwk for like an entire week so that's gonna come back and bite me on the ass!!!
I'm getting kinda tired of the club seen over here, there are just full of rich snobby ass sketchy rich guys who think they are the shit! ah man i really wanted to sock this one mother fucker who after i said that in the US they give u drug tests when u go apply for some jobs to what this mofoe replied that "oh well i don;t have to worry about that, i've never worked, all i've done is at my daddy's business" oh my god please give me the strenght to not knock one of these mother fuckers out. Oh yeah another thing i've noticed is that all these guys always tellm e that they're part of the seleccion nacional de mexico for some random ass sport. this scrawny little 16 year old (who was in the club illegally) told me he was part of the mexican hockey team! i'm all like bitch please, i mean i didn;t say that but i thought it. then this other guy tells me he got ascholarship to go to LSU and play soccer (this guy i might believe a lil bit more but i'm still doubtful) he said he stayed here cause he just likes it so much here. oh yeah and they've all been to canada! anyways i should probably stop talking about these doubtfull-of-shit jokers,
i miss grinnell parties.
well I did have fun at Cantabar, which is a Kareoke/club, and it was our friend Ingrid's B-Day, well not really cause her b-day is actually today. But i had fun there just chillin and having a couple of drinks.
I actually made a new discovery thanks to Hortencia (another girl from my program). We went to the showing of a documentary at this place called LA 68 (it's a cultural center that i'm pretty sure is run by this one family). It was pretty tight they were showing the doc outside, they have an old spanish house wiht a patio inside and that's where they showed it. there wr a lot of old white ppl there, i mean there was like 2 or 3 kids our age, but it was pretty nice, they offer a drink service and food service. They have some pretty good looking pizzas up in there. I tried this helado de lima (lime ice-cream) with hierbabuena (don;t know what you call this in eng), it was an interestign taste, i didn;t it like it much so i let hortencia eat most of it. I'll probably be hitting that place up more often.
I almost forgot to mention that on our way to LA 68 we saw this punk rock place, they were blasting the punk music and there was this punk store right next door which had some kinky ass leather corset thingy and other leather or whatever stuff. it's crazy what things one will find in such a small city!
right now i'm sitting here trying to make myself start y dang hwk but blogging seemed to distract me.
man i didn;t think i would say this but i actually miss Grinnell academics! fuck yo over here we have to make copies of everything! (talk about copyright infringement!) but i mean it odesn;t sound bad right? well here's the deal we have to make copies of fucken txts that are in different liraries around merida, then if we cant find the damn book we have to chase ppl around to either ask them for thir copies or take the damn book away from them. then i have a prof that always tells us that he'll leave the txts at the copy room but he never fucken does!!!!! shit i don;t have the readings for tomorrow for that class! i went to his office today but he wasn;t there, my friend rachel, who;s also in my class also went to his office on thrusday and friday and he wasn't there!! shit man i wish they had blackboard over here!!!!!
oh yeah i slept through my 8-10am class on thursday, that's the first one this semester, hopefully i won;t do that again.
I've been talking alot about race and otherness in my Caribbean lit class which is pretty interesting, i get to practice talking about race in spanish! now i can probably argue with my racist family members = ), yo don;t get me wrong i mean my family is racist but there mexicans so u gotta understand them a little bit, oh yeah i've also been talking about how we mexicans are pretty racist, that;s in my indigenous author seminar class. damn yo the gov over here (Mexico) has really worked hard to fuck over any type of otherness in a population that to quote vasconcelos is the "raza cosmica" and can;t be different. even through language the gov has been fucking up the "other" but i'll talk more about that when i feel like being all deep and whatnot.
aight well for some strange reason my laptop is going to restart itself cause of some damn updates or something so i'll hopefully see u guys soon.
thanks for stalking me and u should leave a comment yo! c];}D
oh yeah and listen to this song it's the shit! we got alex syntek, sin bandera guy, david bisbal, and luis fonsi!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAVK_lofFeA
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
28 de Enero de 2009
aight so i know i faven't posted shit for a while but hey my bumb ass just can't get himself to do so. But have no fear I'm writing stuff now!!!
hmmm... So this weekend...
Oh yeah on Saturday me, hortencia, leticica, Joe, and Chris were invited to a House party! and of course we went. the party was to celebrate the b-day of some exchange kid that's living in Joe's host mom's house, who's from Tabasco (the b-day guy).
So first we met in el centro de Merida cause i proposed (me being the artsy whatever type) to go see the Picasso exhibit that is at the Olimpo cultural center in el centro, isn't that crazy who the hell would of thought that Picasso would be in Merida!!!
but of course the other guys didn;t really like the exhibit, i sort of liked it but i was a bit dissapointed cause the stuff that they wr showing was mainly stuff he did in his early artistic life. So it was mainly crappy sketches, and stuff that seems like (to quote Joe) "anyone of us can do!" But there wr some interesting pieces that kinda hinted somethign at his later works.
anyway then we went to see another art exhibitm, this time it was at the museaum of contemporary art which is actually called: museo de arte contemporaneo ateneo de merida: MACAY. ths exhibit was more to my liking cause it had some cool, valga la redundancia, modern art. Here ar some of the artists that i liked the most:
renato dorfman
emmanuel cruz
uco cuenca
angela tlanextli
marisol d'estrabeau
But yeah hopefully u guys can see some of their stuff online.
So after the modern art exhibit me, hortencia, and leticia heade over to a bar and ate some food, i also had a pina colada, oh yeah i ate som salbutes! dang yo i'm turning into a yucatecan! shit this food is pretty good, but not "good-er" than my jefitas.
After the food we took a bus over to Joe's house and it took us like an hour to get there (bus plus walking for like 30 minutes!!!) then after we got to Joe's pad it turns out we had to go back in the same way we walked to wait for another damn bus! we waited for like another hour adn no bus! so we had to take a taxi to the house where the party was gonna be at. the house was in this new part of town where all the damn houses look alike, it reminded me of some freakin stepfords wife shit or somethign!!!
but anyways i thougt the party was gonn a be wack, but it wasn't. well we "americans" kinda started the party by asking for music, so they went and brought someone's stereo system, and teaching the meridianos how to play BEER PONG!!!!!!!!!! damn yo they really liked it, and they were pretty good even though it was the first time they were playing it!!
the kids in my program and i had to leave early cause the next day (sunday) we had to go on an excursion to UXMAL, ehich by the way i already posted pics of on facebook so you shoud go see it!!!!
so yeah that was my weekend
i've been having a shit ton of reading to do for my Literatura caribena class and my antropologia de las cavernas, and shit let me just post my classes:
Literatura Caribena (caribbean lit)
Antropologia de las cavernas (Anthro of caves)
Catedra de Autor Indigena (Indigenous writer seminar, deals with linguistics and text analysis)
Arqueologia Subacuatica (subacuatic arqueology!)
Taller de fotografia (i get to learn how to use an analog camera!!, by the way i got one today, these shits are expensive eventhough no one uses them anymore!)
well i would talk about Uxmal but i think the pics on facebook shoudl explain most of it. I do have to say that i did eat a ton of food, i ate so much that i couldn't even walk comfortably!
De Landa (some old missionary from yucatan) burnt a shit ton of maya codices and artefacts that today would have been very helpful in the endless effort of studyin gth emaya civilization of the past, shit maybe we could know what's really gonna happen in 2012 ahhahaha!! oh yeah and the walkk around Uxmal was tyring, although it was pretty tight.
well i'm tired of writing now so until next time
i forget if i mentioned this before but me and ashley (mainly me) came up with this new smiley:
c]:}D
can u guess what it is?
i might go watch a movie tonight, but that's up in the air right now i don;t know if i should do that or do my reading for caribbean lit? oh the choices i have to make!!!!!
aight now for real i gotz to go c]:}D
hmmm... So this weekend...
Oh yeah on Saturday me, hortencia, leticica, Joe, and Chris were invited to a House party! and of course we went. the party was to celebrate the b-day of some exchange kid that's living in Joe's host mom's house, who's from Tabasco (the b-day guy).
So first we met in el centro de Merida cause i proposed (me being the artsy whatever type) to go see the Picasso exhibit that is at the Olimpo cultural center in el centro, isn't that crazy who the hell would of thought that Picasso would be in Merida!!!
but of course the other guys didn;t really like the exhibit, i sort of liked it but i was a bit dissapointed cause the stuff that they wr showing was mainly stuff he did in his early artistic life. So it was mainly crappy sketches, and stuff that seems like (to quote Joe) "anyone of us can do!" But there wr some interesting pieces that kinda hinted somethign at his later works.
anyway then we went to see another art exhibitm, this time it was at the museaum of contemporary art which is actually called: museo de arte contemporaneo ateneo de merida: MACAY. ths exhibit was more to my liking cause it had some cool, valga la redundancia, modern art. Here ar some of the artists that i liked the most:
renato dorfman
emmanuel cruz
uco cuenca
angela tlanextli
marisol d'estrabeau
But yeah hopefully u guys can see some of their stuff online.
So after the modern art exhibit me, hortencia, and leticia heade over to a bar and ate some food, i also had a pina colada, oh yeah i ate som salbutes! dang yo i'm turning into a yucatecan! shit this food is pretty good, but not "good-er" than my jefitas.
After the food we took a bus over to Joe's house and it took us like an hour to get there (bus plus walking for like 30 minutes!!!) then after we got to Joe's pad it turns out we had to go back in the same way we walked to wait for another damn bus! we waited for like another hour adn no bus! so we had to take a taxi to the house where the party was gonna be at. the house was in this new part of town where all the damn houses look alike, it reminded me of some freakin stepfords wife shit or somethign!!!
but anyways i thougt the party was gonn a be wack, but it wasn't. well we "americans" kinda started the party by asking for music, so they went and brought someone's stereo system, and teaching the meridianos how to play BEER PONG!!!!!!!!!! damn yo they really liked it, and they were pretty good even though it was the first time they were playing it!!
the kids in my program and i had to leave early cause the next day (sunday) we had to go on an excursion to UXMAL, ehich by the way i already posted pics of on facebook so you shoud go see it!!!!
so yeah that was my weekend
i've been having a shit ton of reading to do for my Literatura caribena class and my antropologia de las cavernas, and shit let me just post my classes:
Literatura Caribena (caribbean lit)
Antropologia de las cavernas (Anthro of caves)
Catedra de Autor Indigena (Indigenous writer seminar, deals with linguistics and text analysis)
Arqueologia Subacuatica (subacuatic arqueology!)
Taller de fotografia (i get to learn how to use an analog camera!!, by the way i got one today, these shits are expensive eventhough no one uses them anymore!)
well i would talk about Uxmal but i think the pics on facebook shoudl explain most of it. I do have to say that i did eat a ton of food, i ate so much that i couldn't even walk comfortably!
De Landa (some old missionary from yucatan) burnt a shit ton of maya codices and artefacts that today would have been very helpful in the endless effort of studyin gth emaya civilization of the past, shit maybe we could know what's really gonna happen in 2012 ahhahaha!! oh yeah and the walkk around Uxmal was tyring, although it was pretty tight.
well i'm tired of writing now so until next time
i forget if i mentioned this before but me and ashley (mainly me) came up with this new smiley:
c]:}D
can u guess what it is?
i might go watch a movie tonight, but that's up in the air right now i don;t know if i should do that or do my reading for caribbean lit? oh the choices i have to make!!!!!
aight now for real i gotz to go c]:}D
Monday, January 12, 2009
12 de Enero de 2009
well I know I've been a fucken bum this past week and hadn't written anything but here we go que chingados!
So let's see what did I do since the last time i wrote on here?.........
Friday
Oh yeah I went to a bar /restaurant called "La Parranda" and drank a margarita, that by the way was efen strong! To quote these two guys from Atlanta that I met: damn they ain't messing with there shit over here!!!
hahahaha so yeah I was talkng to this black guy and an asian guy that where sitting at the bar when I ordered my drink, they were trying to get laid or something so they asked me what clubs they could go to, but i just told them that i was as cluelles as they were = ) I also ate eight tacos!! cuatro de asada and cuatro de al pastor
So yeah me and a bunch of the ppl in the program went over to el centro historico of Merida where the bar was located. why did we go you may ask? well... cause we fucken can! nah just kidding, we went cause the week had been plagued with a shit load of boring ass lectures that went from 8am to 6pm!!! then we had 3 hour long spanish classes during orientation!!!!!!! Which thankfully i won;t have to take cause I did good on the paecement exam, but shit that just means i have to take another regular class!! dammit oh well...
Oh yeah i almost forgot to mention Chris got shitted on my a bird ahahaha ( or shat on i'm not really sure what the correct way of saying it is but most ppl have been using shat on) the night went pretty well there was live music on the streets, that by the way had been closed to traffic so that businesse could bring tables out and sit ppl! man that musica de los panchos was tight. After that I kicked it with Hortencia in the plaza, we where lets say up to no good hahaha you know what i mean Hortencia hahaha we lost the ppl in the group and ended up walking around the plaza till we found them. we met this guy from argentina that's been living on different beaches across latin america for the past coupe of years! we left and everything was chill
Saturday
the next day we had a tour of the historic center of Merida which was pretty tight cause we got to see all the old ass buildings (the cathedral is liek 500 years old!!! It was apperantly the first one built in LAtin America!). shit but i was getting tired cause these fools made us walk a shit ton and it was hot, and basically i wasn;t even paing attention at all, i just wanted this to end so that i could go to Progreso (the name of the beach)
So yeah after the tour was over me and the majority of the ppl in our program caught a bus to Progreso ( it only cost us 24 pesos for a round trip! Shit i'm gonna be going there often!) so yeah i got tanned! i never really go tho the beach in LA cause my bum ass doesn't know how to swim, but it seems i'll be goign over here a lot more since the waters are a lot calmer and shallow over here. I had a to take a shower at the end cause me and erick were gonna meet with Karl and Ju Hyun (shit I probably spelled your name wrong sorry!) right when we got back to el centro. so me and erick went into this sketchy ass shower place that charged us 10 pesos to shower in these dirty ass, moldy ass, creepy ass showers, anywas I got ready and we wetn on our way back to merida.
So we got back and went and met up with Karl and Ju Hyun and we walked around el centro. We saw this bomb ass spanish dance performance, they were dancing flamenco and some other typical spanish songs! there was only one guy in the dance group and he seemed all Antonio-Banderas-like when he was dancing all by himself with all the lovely (HOT) women hahaha!
but yeah after like two hours of sittign on this metal sheet cover to who knows what we got up and went to eat something, we went in circles looking for a place to eat until we got to this pizza place called "Vito Corleone" and the pizza was pretty good (although I found out today from our program director that that's the place where a program participant got really sick from and ended up in the hospital!! but oh well shit hasn't happend to me yet so i think i'm good = )) Then we wen tot the MUseo de arte contemporaneo de MErida and we saw this weird 3D Sound Exhibiton by this spanish guy, he was at the center of this big hall and there were seats all around him, he introduced himself and gave his speech and what not then he played some weird ass sounds thorugh the loud ass speakers that were all over the room, oh yeah he also made us use a blind fold so as to increase our hearing senses or some shit like that. But yeah i didn't really enjoy that show but i did see some pretty good looking ladies up in that bitch ; ) anyways we got a free umm... oh yeah a free lighter so the night wasn;t lost! I mean it was a different experience htat I got to experience with good friends. Before the sounf exhibit started me and erick were talking a lot about our hippie-ish idelogies and how we want to help the world, we Grinnellians have a lto in common even though we all come from differnt backgrounds, I'm glad I talked to Erick he's a pretty chill dude.
but yeah we left and took a taxi back home. fucken taxi driver charged erick 90 pesos!! fuckin rip-off mofoe! yeah damn taxi driver saw that we were foreign and he took advantage of erick, whom he dropped-off at the end, i gave erick 35 pesos cause the taxi driver had said that it was only going to be 70 pesos (which was still al lot, it;s ussually 40-50 pesos) But yeah i wen t to sleep a bit pissed off but it was all good.
Sunday
this day my host family took me ot the beach in CHELEM (my bum ass is just in the beach evryday now!) they have some sick ass beach house that they rent out to rich americans or rivh mexicans for hat matter. the houses were amazing! we spent all day there just chilling with her family. one of her older sons was in town installing a sattelite internet connection in the beach houses cause this rich american guy need it to do business. but anyways i got to have some deep conversation with my host mom's son and his wife who is also pretty cool. they both asked me a bunch of questions and they said that they thought I was gonna do big things in Merida and in life!! MAn that just keeps me goign when ppl see the real me and give me words of advice. i really liked them = )
Today Monday
today was pretty productive It was the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!, i decided what classes I'm gonna take, one of my classes got cancelled, and i kicked it with Ashley (another fellow program member) in the IFSA office.
at the end of the day (after a 3 hour mayan history and civilization class we all headed home. The damn bus took a long time to get there! Then when it picked all of us up it took like 40 minutes para hacer un recorrido que normalmente solo lleva 10!!! basically the damn bus driver was going at a mile per hour!!!!!
but yeah first time i take the bus back by myself!! whoot whoot!! Me and Ashley got out at our bus stop (cause she lives like a block away from my house) and then she said she needed to get the newspaper to do a project or somethign and i told her we could go to this place called Plaza Fiesta (which I thought was a little plaza, but to my surprise was small size shopping center!) we spemt liek an hour and a half just looking at stuff, i felt like i was back home!! I bought my notebooks, some ice cream, and some new shades. there was this one store called coppel that had a bunch of stuff, it was like a Sears or something like that. but yeah we were looking at shoes, clothes, video games, i jumped into a bunk bed and Ashley almost gets on top of the bunk bed but it starts wabbling so i tell her not to casue she might break it and fall on me, she bought a hat that looked pretty cool on her ( i was trying to find a hat that looked coool on me but i looked and had no luck = ( ) yeah I had a great unplanned time at the "mall" oh yeah they also have a burger king in there and a music store! On our way out I saw this little shp with some cool shades so Ashley and I start trying them on, which took us another half an hour haha after trying on what seemed to be a hundred pairs of shades we finally each bought a pair, I got some aviator police style shades and Ashley bought these black and white D&G looking ones. I found out that Ashley likes South Park which is an awesome show!
I got home but my host parents had gone to a meeting so they left my meal ready. I had bomb ass tamale!!! it was made inside of a banana tree leaf and made out of chiken and a bunck of other stuff, it was simply amazing!!!!
since i'm getting tired of writing i'm just gonna stop and say good night and hopefully i'll write more ofen so that i dont' t have to write so much next time! ora pues e me cuidan and see ya'll soon with more aventuras through merida "La ciudad blanca" If i missed stuff I'll randomly post it laterz.
So let's see what did I do since the last time i wrote on here?.........
Friday
Oh yeah I went to a bar /restaurant called "La Parranda" and drank a margarita, that by the way was efen strong! To quote these two guys from Atlanta that I met: damn they ain't messing with there shit over here!!!
hahahaha so yeah I was talkng to this black guy and an asian guy that where sitting at the bar when I ordered my drink, they were trying to get laid or something so they asked me what clubs they could go to, but i just told them that i was as cluelles as they were = ) I also ate eight tacos!! cuatro de asada and cuatro de al pastor
So yeah me and a bunch of the ppl in the program went over to el centro historico of Merida where the bar was located. why did we go you may ask? well... cause we fucken can! nah just kidding, we went cause the week had been plagued with a shit load of boring ass lectures that went from 8am to 6pm!!! then we had 3 hour long spanish classes during orientation!!!!!!! Which thankfully i won;t have to take cause I did good on the paecement exam, but shit that just means i have to take another regular class!! dammit oh well...
Oh yeah i almost forgot to mention Chris got shitted on my a bird ahahaha ( or shat on i'm not really sure what the correct way of saying it is but most ppl have been using shat on) the night went pretty well there was live music on the streets, that by the way had been closed to traffic so that businesse could bring tables out and sit ppl! man that musica de los panchos was tight. After that I kicked it with Hortencia in the plaza, we where lets say up to no good hahaha you know what i mean Hortencia hahaha we lost the ppl in the group and ended up walking around the plaza till we found them. we met this guy from argentina that's been living on different beaches across latin america for the past coupe of years! we left and everything was chill
Saturday
the next day we had a tour of the historic center of Merida which was pretty tight cause we got to see all the old ass buildings (the cathedral is liek 500 years old!!! It was apperantly the first one built in LAtin America!). shit but i was getting tired cause these fools made us walk a shit ton and it was hot, and basically i wasn;t even paing attention at all, i just wanted this to end so that i could go to Progreso (the name of the beach)
So yeah after the tour was over me and the majority of the ppl in our program caught a bus to Progreso ( it only cost us 24 pesos for a round trip! Shit i'm gonna be going there often!) so yeah i got tanned! i never really go tho the beach in LA cause my bum ass doesn't know how to swim, but it seems i'll be goign over here a lot more since the waters are a lot calmer and shallow over here. I had a to take a shower at the end cause me and erick were gonna meet with Karl and Ju Hyun (shit I probably spelled your name wrong sorry!) right when we got back to el centro. so me and erick went into this sketchy ass shower place that charged us 10 pesos to shower in these dirty ass, moldy ass, creepy ass showers, anywas I got ready and we wetn on our way back to merida.
So we got back and went and met up with Karl and Ju Hyun and we walked around el centro. We saw this bomb ass spanish dance performance, they were dancing flamenco and some other typical spanish songs! there was only one guy in the dance group and he seemed all Antonio-Banderas-like when he was dancing all by himself with all the lovely (HOT) women hahaha!
but yeah after like two hours of sittign on this metal sheet cover to who knows what we got up and went to eat something, we went in circles looking for a place to eat until we got to this pizza place called "Vito Corleone" and the pizza was pretty good (although I found out today from our program director that that's the place where a program participant got really sick from and ended up in the hospital!! but oh well shit hasn't happend to me yet so i think i'm good = )) Then we wen tot the MUseo de arte contemporaneo de MErida and we saw this weird 3D Sound Exhibiton by this spanish guy, he was at the center of this big hall and there were seats all around him, he introduced himself and gave his speech and what not then he played some weird ass sounds thorugh the loud ass speakers that were all over the room, oh yeah he also made us use a blind fold so as to increase our hearing senses or some shit like that. But yeah i didn't really enjoy that show but i did see some pretty good looking ladies up in that bitch ; ) anyways we got a free umm... oh yeah a free lighter so the night wasn;t lost! I mean it was a different experience htat I got to experience with good friends. Before the sounf exhibit started me and erick were talking a lot about our hippie-ish idelogies and how we want to help the world, we Grinnellians have a lto in common even though we all come from differnt backgrounds, I'm glad I talked to Erick he's a pretty chill dude.
but yeah we left and took a taxi back home. fucken taxi driver charged erick 90 pesos!! fuckin rip-off mofoe! yeah damn taxi driver saw that we were foreign and he took advantage of erick, whom he dropped-off at the end, i gave erick 35 pesos cause the taxi driver had said that it was only going to be 70 pesos (which was still al lot, it;s ussually 40-50 pesos) But yeah i wen t to sleep a bit pissed off but it was all good.
Sunday
this day my host family took me ot the beach in CHELEM (my bum ass is just in the beach evryday now!) they have some sick ass beach house that they rent out to rich americans or rivh mexicans for hat matter. the houses were amazing! we spent all day there just chilling with her family. one of her older sons was in town installing a sattelite internet connection in the beach houses cause this rich american guy need it to do business. but anyways i got to have some deep conversation with my host mom's son and his wife who is also pretty cool. they both asked me a bunch of questions and they said that they thought I was gonna do big things in Merida and in life!! MAn that just keeps me goign when ppl see the real me and give me words of advice. i really liked them = )
Today Monday
today was pretty productive It was the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!, i decided what classes I'm gonna take, one of my classes got cancelled, and i kicked it with Ashley (another fellow program member) in the IFSA office.
at the end of the day (after a 3 hour mayan history and civilization class we all headed home. The damn bus took a long time to get there! Then when it picked all of us up it took like 40 minutes para hacer un recorrido que normalmente solo lleva 10!!! basically the damn bus driver was going at a mile per hour!!!!!
but yeah first time i take the bus back by myself!! whoot whoot!! Me and Ashley got out at our bus stop (cause she lives like a block away from my house) and then she said she needed to get the newspaper to do a project or somethign and i told her we could go to this place called Plaza Fiesta (which I thought was a little plaza, but to my surprise was small size shopping center!) we spemt liek an hour and a half just looking at stuff, i felt like i was back home!! I bought my notebooks, some ice cream, and some new shades. there was this one store called coppel that had a bunch of stuff, it was like a Sears or something like that. but yeah we were looking at shoes, clothes, video games, i jumped into a bunk bed and Ashley almost gets on top of the bunk bed but it starts wabbling so i tell her not to casue she might break it and fall on me, she bought a hat that looked pretty cool on her ( i was trying to find a hat that looked coool on me but i looked and had no luck = ( ) yeah I had a great unplanned time at the "mall" oh yeah they also have a burger king in there and a music store! On our way out I saw this little shp with some cool shades so Ashley and I start trying them on, which took us another half an hour haha after trying on what seemed to be a hundred pairs of shades we finally each bought a pair, I got some aviator police style shades and Ashley bought these black and white D&G looking ones. I found out that Ashley likes South Park which is an awesome show!
I got home but my host parents had gone to a meeting so they left my meal ready. I had bomb ass tamale!!! it was made inside of a banana tree leaf and made out of chiken and a bunck of other stuff, it was simply amazing!!!!
since i'm getting tired of writing i'm just gonna stop and say good night and hopefully i'll write more ofen so that i dont' t have to write so much next time! ora pues e me cuidan and see ya'll soon with more aventuras through merida "La ciudad blanca" If i missed stuff I'll randomly post it laterz.
Monday, January 5, 2009
5 de Enero de 2009
woke up at 9:00 am
12:00pm
Ok so today started our orientation which to be honest was fucken boring, well at least the talking part. I mean I had fun and all but the person who was giving the orientation (Diana) was talking about common sense shit! I mean I guess some ppl do need to hear crap like: you guys shouldn't use drugs over here, you shouldn't get in fghts, don;t get too fucken wasted, etc.
I did find out something interesting: that here in Mexico you can get incarcerated and in deep shit for having any amount of illegal drugs on you ! It's not like in the US wr you get into more trouble depending on how much shit you have. you'll get efd equally for having a gram of coke or a gram of weed! HAHAHA
but yeah after like 3 hours straight of talking and shit we went to a restaurant called: Los Almendros. this restaurant is apperantly one of the higher class ones here in merida and their food was pretty good. We had some agua de jamaica (Hubiscus), the food was pretty good we had some typical Yucatecan food which I would wrtite the name of but my lazy ass doesn;t want to reach for the cook book we received today and look at the names of it but it was basically a tostada (fried tortilla) with frijoles on top with chicken and a bunch of lettuce and onions, some enchiladas with eggs in them, some longaniza, and another tostada looking thing with more chicken. the longaniza looked like a burnt up piece of shit, so i was kind of hesitant to eat it. the longaniza was aight but it was too dry for my taste.
Oh yeah they had these two old guys (and when I say Old I mean OLD as in 80 yr old) playing live music! It was pretty tight I think they were playing some Cri-Cri song at one point.
Down poitn of the meal was that I was waiting for dessert but it never came! =( i neede soem sugar in my system to stay awake throught he next couple of hours of orientation!
Oh yeah I talked to this ex adminastrator guy from UADY and we talked about anthro stuff and the anthropology of tourism, and Gramsci, Bourdeau, and all them anthro mofoes It was a really engaging conversation.
After the meal we went back to the central building of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY) to keep on going with the orientation. same thing just talking, talking, and more talking. At one point I though I was hearing one of the adults in the snoopy cartoons!
Oh and by the way the school is spread out in all over the city! damn departments are split up like anthro is in one place, art in another, etc.
Well the orientation when on till like 6:00pm then it was off to my host parents house again. Oh yeah my host parents house have a pretty tight house! it's sort of modernish mixed with ancient spanish pre-columbian architecture. I have my own little with my own efen bathroom!!!!!! I was surprised when i saw that bathroom in my room! Oh yeah i even have a hammock in my room so i get to choose whter I sleep in the bed or on the hammockl!!! Chingon, Chingon!
back to how my day went: so when i got picked up at the Universidad my host dad (Don Jose) asked me if i could help him with correnting a renters contract that he had written so that these americans that were ggonna rent one of his house at the beach could sign. Oh yeah my host family have 3 little beach houses that they rent out to rich white ppl that come over to the beaches ove in Merida. But yeha I helped him write it and corrected some of his grammar. I twas pretty fun writting that.
Ok so then we ate dinner. i had this bomb ass Lasagna! (hope that's how you spell it) that was vegetarian! It was so good that I thought it had meat in it!!! this wasn;t no crappy ass Ginnell Lasagna this was some good shit!
But yeah now I'm in my room, i already unpacked everything, which isn't much since i only brought one suit case and a duffle baf with me.
i might do boxign over here! or kickboxing, or taekwando (another word i can't spell) or play soccer, i still have to figure out what's more convenient for me. I'll let ya'll know.
shit i've writen a lot! well at least for what i'm used to writting every day, which is basically nothing! = ) and i have been using WHICH a lot for some reason, ahh who am i kidding it's just my crappy writtign habits! hahaha
oh shit I forgot i gotta go to sleep early cause i have to leave the house at 7am tomorrow to go to the facultad the antropologia!!!
and I'm gonna steal this from Kate McNally's blog that is also in myprogram and writing about the same deal cause I'm too lazy to reach for my calendar and write this info down BUT THIS IS MY VACATION SCHEDULE:
Bueno nos vemos canijos, hope all is well. and post some damn comments!!!
12:00pm
Ok so today started our orientation which to be honest was fucken boring, well at least the talking part. I mean I had fun and all but the person who was giving the orientation (Diana) was talking about common sense shit! I mean I guess some ppl do need to hear crap like: you guys shouldn't use drugs over here, you shouldn't get in fghts, don;t get too fucken wasted, etc.
I did find out something interesting: that here in Mexico you can get incarcerated and in deep shit for having any amount of illegal drugs on you ! It's not like in the US wr you get into more trouble depending on how much shit you have. you'll get efd equally for having a gram of coke or a gram of weed! HAHAHA
but yeah after like 3 hours straight of talking and shit we went to a restaurant called: Los Almendros. this restaurant is apperantly one of the higher class ones here in merida and their food was pretty good. We had some agua de jamaica (Hubiscus), the food was pretty good we had some typical Yucatecan food which I would wrtite the name of but my lazy ass doesn;t want to reach for the cook book we received today and look at the names of it but it was basically a tostada (fried tortilla) with frijoles on top with chicken and a bunch of lettuce and onions, some enchiladas with eggs in them, some longaniza, and another tostada looking thing with more chicken. the longaniza looked like a burnt up piece of shit, so i was kind of hesitant to eat it. the longaniza was aight but it was too dry for my taste.
Oh yeah they had these two old guys (and when I say Old I mean OLD as in 80 yr old) playing live music! It was pretty tight I think they were playing some Cri-Cri song at one point.
Down poitn of the meal was that I was waiting for dessert but it never came! =( i neede soem sugar in my system to stay awake throught he next couple of hours of orientation!
Oh yeah I talked to this ex adminastrator guy from UADY and we talked about anthro stuff and the anthropology of tourism, and Gramsci, Bourdeau, and all them anthro mofoes It was a really engaging conversation.
After the meal we went back to the central building of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY) to keep on going with the orientation. same thing just talking, talking, and more talking. At one point I though I was hearing one of the adults in the snoopy cartoons!
Oh and by the way the school is spread out in all over the city! damn departments are split up like anthro is in one place, art in another, etc.
Well the orientation when on till like 6:00pm then it was off to my host parents house again. Oh yeah my host parents house have a pretty tight house! it's sort of modernish mixed with ancient spanish pre-columbian architecture. I have my own little with my own efen bathroom!!!!!! I was surprised when i saw that bathroom in my room! Oh yeah i even have a hammock in my room so i get to choose whter I sleep in the bed or on the hammockl!!! Chingon, Chingon!
back to how my day went: so when i got picked up at the Universidad my host dad (Don Jose) asked me if i could help him with correnting a renters contract that he had written so that these americans that were ggonna rent one of his house at the beach could sign. Oh yeah my host family have 3 little beach houses that they rent out to rich white ppl that come over to the beaches ove in Merida. But yeha I helped him write it and corrected some of his grammar. I twas pretty fun writting that.
Ok so then we ate dinner. i had this bomb ass Lasagna! (hope that's how you spell it) that was vegetarian! It was so good that I thought it had meat in it!!! this wasn;t no crappy ass Ginnell Lasagna this was some good shit!
But yeah now I'm in my room, i already unpacked everything, which isn't much since i only brought one suit case and a duffle baf with me.
i might do boxign over here! or kickboxing, or taekwando (another word i can't spell) or play soccer, i still have to figure out what's more convenient for me. I'll let ya'll know.
shit i've writen a lot! well at least for what i'm used to writting every day, which is basically nothing! = ) and i have been using WHICH a lot for some reason, ahh who am i kidding it's just my crappy writtign habits! hahaha
oh shit I forgot i gotta go to sleep early cause i have to leave the house at 7am tomorrow to go to the facultad the antropologia!!!
and I'm gonna steal this from Kate McNally's blog that is also in myprogram and writing about the same deal cause I'm too lazy to reach for my calendar and write this info down BUT THIS IS MY VACATION SCHEDULE:
February:
2nd (Monday)
23rd (Monday)~ Carnival
24th (Tuesday)~ Carnival
25th (Wednesday)~ UADY’s Foundation
March
3rd *(Tuesday) ~ Cepeda Peraza
16th *(Monday) ~ Benito Juarez
April
6th-16th Easter à the 13th-16th we’re doing excursions as a group though
May
1st (Friday)
5th (Tuesday)
15th (Friday) ~ Teacher’s Day
Bueno nos vemos canijos, hope all is well. and post some damn comments!!!
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