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:

February:

2^nd (Monday)

23^rd (Monday)~ Carnival

24^th (Tuesday)~ Carnival

25^th (Wednesday)~ UADY’s Foundation

March

3^rd *(Tuesday) ~ Cepeda Peraza

16^th *(Monday) ~ Benito Juarez

April

6^th-16^th Easter à the 13^th-16^th we’re doing excursions as a group though

May

1^st (Friday)

5^th (Tuesday)

15^th (Friday) ~ Teacher’s Day

Bueno nos vemos canijos, hope all is well. and post some damn comments!!!