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