Current mood:

happy

el ahogado mas hermoso del mundo
...Ahhh Mexico!!!

So things are going well here. As Bixler said, we might hate it the first week and then come to like it afterwards. That holds true with me, because I was somewhat depressed the first week. This place is VERY different from where I am from in many ways... not only being foreign, but being a city. Everything is so loud and fast and dirty! Alas, it is fun.

Classes are going... so-so. My literature class is a lot of work but we are reading some really great stuff. The other day, we read a BEAUTIFUL piece called "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" by Jorge Luis Borges. It was really good. Now we are reading stuff by Gabriel García Márquez, who I've read before, but anything of his is amazing.

My grammar class, however, is all jumbled up. The teacher is somewhat unorganized and random, and the material is poorly explained. Okay, I know the subjunctive is somewhat confusing at times, but to sit here and tell us it is one way, then 30 minutes later say it is another way... ah. I am starting to get the hang of it, though. I don't mind, either way, because it is still cool to say I took the hardest grammar class available at a Mexican university. :-)

Everything else is fun. Trips are a blast, albeit tiring. The other VT students here are so-so as well... I really only get along well enough to be friends with my roommate and one or two other people. It doesn't bother me, though, because the others like to drink every night and spend all their money on wasteful things. I'm here to learn and experience, not get drunk every night.

Ahhhh and the food is great. For example... we had quesadillas for breakfast. Yeah, they do that in Mexico. It is SO AWESOME. If you love Mexican food, you'd love eating in Mexico. You have all kinds of things all the time. Almost everything is ultra spicy. Then, once in a while, there is that weird "traditional" dish that makes me kinda sick, but whatever. The restaurants are okay, too. I have a few favorites. :-)

Most of all, though, is the fact that I miss Jason terrrrribly. I can't stand being so far away from him! I think about him all the time. I'm constantly checking my mailbox to see if he has responded to an email I sent him or I count down the minutes until I can call him (only once a week). Ugh, it is hard, but it'll be so nice to see him again. He's picking me up from the airport, then we are spending that weekend in DC. I couldn't think of a single person I would want to pick me up instead of him. I LOVE HIM!!!!

Now, time to wrap up some homework and then go to lunch...