our last excursion and other stuff i need to catch up on

so i have some good stories to catch up on. last weekend my friend had a birthday party at the beach and she invited us from the program and the people she is friends with from her gay and lesbian support group. it was a very very interesting party. we got a safe sex demonstration and i got to see how someone would put on a condom using their mouth. just imagine me in that situation. imagine my face. cause what your thinking is probably what i was doing. it was very strange. we decided after that that we didnt want to spend the night at the house with these friends which i found out later was a good idea. then i did my last big assignment of the semester so really i think all i have left is finals, which are going to be a joke like the rest of the classes here. so then we had our last excursion this weekend and it was awesome. we went first to a place called punta laguna and basically its a hike through the jungle to see animals. we say howler monkeys and snakes, lizards, bugs, and really pregnant dogs, the dogs werent really a part of the jungle. i got to see a snake eat a lizard that was still alive while it was being swallowed. then we went to playa del carmen and went to the beach for the rest of the day. at night we hung out with some mexicans and played chak-mol. then two friends and i went on a photo taking frenzy while walking around the city. they got in a fake fight in the middle of the road and the police stopped to ask if there was a problem going on. then we danced on the beach and they sway in the ocean and got in a random persons empty boat. the next day we went to tulum, a mayan ruin that is on the beach, i know, awesome. we swam in the water right under the ruins and it was beautiful. then we went to coba, another mayan ruin, and we rode bikes around to each part of the ruins. it was really fun cause i havent ridden a bike in many a year. no i look like a tomatoe but not too bad. it doesnt hurt too much. and now another week of school. but not really cause we have tuesday off of school and then my parents are coming on thursday, hopefully. ok later

carnaval, but not really

so i didnt stay in merida for the intense carnival that they have. i went to chiapas instead. its another state in mexico. so i took a bus with 4 other people thursday night and it took 12 hours. we got to san cristobal de las casas in the morning on friday and the city is awesome. its pretty much a hippy town with really great organic food. so the first day we just walked around and got to know the city. we met some cool guys from manchester at our hostel which was called magic hostel. the costantly blasted really loud crappy music. the next day we went to this littly pueblo outside the city and they were doing this strange ritual where they were running around their plaza dressed up and with a bunch of smoking herbs and blowing horns. it was strange but definitely an experience. we went in their church which was strange because we were watching them like they were in a zoo. not cool. but they were putting out offerings of coca cola and fanta. coke is soooooooo incredibly popular here. so much more than in the us. we ate at this restaurant and this american man came and played the guitar for the whole restaurant. the custom is to tip a person that performs even if you didnt ask for it. but thats if you like the music. we didnt like the music so we didnt tip him and neither did anyone else. the guy got pissed at us, the americans, and no one else. he started yelling at us and talking to us as if we didnt know anything about the customs in mexico. then he said stuff to su in spanish about the rich becoming poor and the poor taking over power. he thought we couldnt understand spanish at all and basically he just made a big fool of himself. then we went on a tour of this big canyon about an hour and a half outside of the city and it was awesome. we saw birds, monkeys and aligators. it was pretty much amazing. it was in a boat because the bottom of the canyon is a river. then we went to a waterfall near palenque which was amazing. the book told us that it was where they filmed predator, the movie. that was pretty cool that i could share that moment with arnold. we got to climb around on the rocks. there are pictures of all this in my facebook album. then the bus ride back which was another 9 or so hours over night to get back to merida at 6 in the morning on tuesday. it was awesome and im pretty sure i want to go back. not much else except my family is going to try and come the end of march to visit which is good. i freakin love it here. thats all,
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