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Well hey there, i havent seen you in a while. I have really sucked with this but whatev, im updating it now. So i just got back from my vacations which were amazing and unforgettable in both good and bad ways. My break started on april 6th and will end the 26th. I know, awesome break. I hung out in merida for the first week or so and got a bunch of my finals staff done so i dont have to do it in my final weeks here. So then me and 4 other people from my group left on wednesday the 12th to go to Oaxaca, another state in Mexico. We went by bus and it took just over 20 hours to get there. I know, that is really sucky. We had a 3 hour lay over in Villahermosa, one of the suckiest cities ever, there is nothing to do. One thing that made the ride just the best thing ever was that there was a girl barfing for about 2 hours and making just the most disgusting noises ever, that was a little hard to handle. So we got into Oaxaca City in the morning the next day and went to some museums and walked around the city. It is a cool place, reminds me a lot of Chiapas but a lot more dry. There are a lot of pedestrian walkways that are nice for a stroll. Then we went to el tule which is supposedly the widest tree in the world. It was pretty impressive but also just a tree. We stayed in this pretty cool hostel that was also an apartment building. It was kinda weird. The next day we went to monte alban which is a zapotec ruin. Another awesome occurrence was that this bus was in a really sketch part of town and when we got on that bus it had barf all over the back floor, I just had a really bad run in with barf on this trip. But whatev, the ruins were cool cause they were in the mountains and all dry and stuff. Then the next day we took another bus to Puerto Escondido which is a surf town on the Oaxacan coast. It is now one of my favorite places ever. That bus ride took another 10 hours, just so you know. I spent so much of my vacation in a bus and that sucked. But Puerto Escondido was amazing. The beach was awesome and the food was amazing. We found this great Japanese restaurant that had real Japanese working at it and I found my love for Japanese curry, it was awesome. And im starting to really like sushi, its weird that im starting to love Japanese food in mexico. But the best food we found was this little burger stand on the side of the road called “the spot” and I ate the best cheeseburgers of my life. We actually watched every move the cook made so we could memorize how she did it so we could try and reproduce it. I think I ate at least one burger every night I was in Puerto Escondido which was 5 nights. Most of the time I ate 2 though. I didn’t get too burnt but I actually got a tan, I have tan lines, I can barely believe it myself. Its pretty sweet. Part way through our stay at the beach, 2 of the girls left to go back to merida and so it left me, one other guy and one other girl. We found a different hotel that actually was better than the first and spent more time at the beach. Then we up and decided to move ourselves to a different beach for just one day before we went back to Oaxaca city. We ended up taking a bus to Bahias de Huatulco. We found a hotel which ended up being really sketch and then headed off to the beach. We got this guy to take us out in his boat to a beach to snorkel at. It was amazing, my first time. I got to see some really incredible fish, but also was stung by a little jellyfish. It hurt like a bee sting. Staying in the hotel that night was almost terrible, it was sooooo hot and there was just this really weak fan in our room. All of the beach towns we went to were really hot, it is just really hot everywhere now. Then we headed back to Oaxaca city because we had to take our bus out of there to return to merida. But we found out that we weren’t going to get to leave when we wanted to which was in the morning and then get to merida the next morning. Instead we had to leave at night and get to Villahermosa and wait there for 17 hours for our next bus to merida. We wanted to kill ourselves when we found that out but decided we would just find a mall and go on a movie marathon. We got into Villahermosa at 5 in the morning and then found out we could find empty space on an early bus. After some hecticness we actually got on an earlier bus which was a miracle and then I got into merida at like 5 instead of the next morning. All really confusing stuff with times and days but I spent about a week and a half in Oaxaca and it was great, despite the bad stuff. Now im back and finals are coming up and I gotta figure out my belize program stuff. Ok laterz.