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so my family was supposed to come this weekend but i guess there flight kept getting pushed back because of weather and thus they didnt come. that sucked. so i didnt really do much this weekend. i volunteered at the english school on friday and we taught a bunch of little kids the english words for the different rooms of a house. usually people just help out the teachers that are already there but one of the teachers hasnt been showing up so we have taken over for her. i thought it was going to be scary and hard but its not. because the kids have no clue whats going on either. one kid tried to tell me that ´sink´is not the right word for a sink. i told him that i was pretty sure i was right that sink meant sink. silly mexican kids who think they know a different word for sink when the right one is sink. then i went and saw memoirs of a geisha which was good. then i spent pretty much the rest of the weekend working on homework cause i had a paper and a presentation due monday, today. my host family thinks im a hard studier because it looks like im always studying but really it is the opposite, i just suck and it takes me a long time to do anything. i have to remind them that sometimes. so this morning i was supposed to give my speach but we ran out of time. one of the students spoke for a really long time. the professor fell asleep in class again. this is the third time. and its not like he is being discrete. his desk is in the front of the class. but this time was the best so far because the presenter asked him a question and he had been sleeping and he jumped up and there was some drool on his chin that he had to wipe off before he started talking. it was really funny. i think he knows that all of us laugh at him. we also talked about, in the same class, the problems that beans cause for people who dont normally eat them. we talked about farts and indigestion in my history of new spain class. what wierdos. not much going on this week but im going to chiapas this weekend during my break from school for carnaval. im kind of sad that im going to miss 6 days of parades and drinking in the streets but not really. i would much rather travel, because i would have been bored after one day of carnaval. but people are going to take pictures of it for me so i can pretend that i did it. so nos vemos and i will update when i get back from my vacation.

2nd excursion weekend

so we went on another excursion this weekend to campeche, another state in mexico to the south and west and it was very fun. its always a good time when we are all together. and plus everything is planned out for us and thus i dont have to think, just do what my program director tells me which is lazy but good. we first went to edzna, another ruin. they really do look alike and so it wasnt that special except that it was really hot and i was sweating. my favorite thing to do at the ruins is climb up to the top and look out over the forests and stuff. its really cool. then we went to this fortress outside of the city of campeche and it was fun. there were some guards at the fortress that were really funny. when they saw a bunch of americans, especially american girls, coming towards them, they started tucking in their shirts, fixing their hair, and one guy even pulled out a razor from i dont know where and started shaving. that is pretty much an example of how it always is when american women go somewhere. it was funny. then we went to the downtown of campeche and it was a pretty city but there was nothing to do. we went on a walking tour and the guy was in love with one of the ladies that helps out with our excursions. he only looked and talked to her the whole time. and then when we would arrive to a street he would stop and say, this is an old street, and then we would keep walking. at the end we asked him where some good food was and he told us the subway around the corner. that was pretty much the cherry on the top of this awful tour. my program director was furious. afterwards we just walked around and i bought some juice and they put it in a plastic bag and tied the top and put a straw in it. it was the best way to drink juice ever. just another thing that is so clearly mexican. went to our hotel after that and since there was really no where to go we just hung out at the hotel the whole night. then the next day we went to celestun, a city on the beach and we went on a flamingo tour which was cool. and we went into a mangrove forest and saw an underground river. the nature is cool here. on sunday it was freezing and so is today. im wearing the only sweater i brought here. but by freezing i mean around 60 or so. everyone is wearing scarves and big coats. i have another boring week of class before my parents come this weekend, and my brother. they are going to meet my mexican family and im going to have to translate the whole thing. it should be interesting but fun. we are going to go to chichen itza which i havent seen yet. ok, more for later, bye

so hey there i didnt see you

ok, i havent written on this thing in a really long time, but it is because the internet here is so freaking slow that it discourages my from doing anything that might take a while. but here i am. ok, last weekend. i went to this park in the downtown and listened to traditional yucatecan music. it is called trova and it is ok. the music from the yucatan is slow, and it has a lot of caribbean influence. trova is three guys singing and all three of them playing guitars. then there is also the traditional yucatecan dance called the jarana. it is really cool. they dress in traditional clothes and dance around in formations. there is also a part where they dance with trays of beer on their heads. it was pretty awesome but one of the women dropped hers off her head. then on friday i went to this awesome club called mambocafe. it is awesome. it is a salsa club and everyone there can dance really well, except for me and a lot of the people i was with. they have a live band that is from cuba and they sing well and also can dance really well. it ended up being more like a show than a club. i did get up and dance a few times but i was dancing with my friend summar and people pretty much stopped dancing to stare at us. i guess it is pretty uncommon here for a really tall white guy and a really tall black girl to be dancing together. then the other time we danced they were playing some tecno music and that was really funny because the people didnt really konw how to dance to it because it wasnt like salsa. and so it was easier to do just crazy dancing. i ordered a drink when i was there and i asked for a malibu and coke and the waiter guy came back with our drinks and i started to drink it and lo and behold, it was just pop. so i asked him what the deal was and he said that i ordered pepsi and that is what he brought me. i was like, no, clearly, malibu and coke doesnt sound anything like pepsi even with my sucky american accent. but he stuck to the fact that he thought i said pepsi so we didnt really tip him at all. saturday i watched munich and that was cool. movies here are only 4 dollars so we go a lot. and on wednesdays they are 2 dollars. a lot better than in the us. on sunday i did hw and then went to the 711 by my house for icecream. 711 has good icecream. its not really real but its cheap. school week, incredibly boring. i dont think im actually learning things. well thats not true. i really like my spanish and mayan classes, they are awesome. but my anthro class is absolutely stupid. my professor does not teach at all. he just makes us do speaches all the time. and he always directs his questions to the american students for our opinoin from a western point of view. now this is really stupid because my professor is from germany and that is a western country so he has just as much of an idea about what order and progress means in the west as i do. so this weekend was very welcomed. on friday i went to the downtown to look into volunteering at a local school that teaches english to people all ages. it should be fun and it isnt that big of a committment. friday night i found this really nice coffee shop in the downtown that has free wireless internet. all you have to do is bring your laptop and also buy a coffee. so its not really free but it feels like it. and you can stay as long as you want. then on saturday i hit up some free museums and galleries which was pretty fun and then we walked around. the weather was really nice this weekend. it was warm but with a breeze and then at night it gets cool. then at night we decided to go to the house of one of the girls on my program to watch a movie. we decided to walk because on the map it didnt seem that bad. so we met at 930 to go and we started walking. i had my map and it looked like we were going to go through some nice big neighborhoods but in reality, we were walking through dirt roads, no lights, no houses, in the middle of fields of tall grass, and stray dogs chasing us. one of the guys´leg started to bother him and he had to walk slow for a while and he picked up rocks to defind himself against the dogs. we were using our cell phones as light and after an hour of walking we finally made it to her house. it was an ordeal but worth it because the movie was really good. its called amar te duele and it is like a mexican version of remeo and julliett. on the way back we decided it would be ok to spend the extra money to get a cab and it was fine. then on sunday i went to a bar to watch the superbowl and it was really fun. the bartender was really amused with 6 americans in the middle of mexico watching the super bowl. she kept looking at us and shaking her head and laughing. thats the reaction we get a lot here. then on monday we had the day off from school for some mexican holiday, whatever, i didnt have to go to class. so i did some homework to make up for the not homework i did all weekend and then that night went and saw the johnny cash movie which was good. i have a speach on thursday that i havent really done anything for but whatev, no one really does work here anyways so yeah. so we are going on another excursion this weekend so i will have some good stories from that, ok bye