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.