Merida Domingo and First Day of Class

Sunday June 28, 2009 10:28 PM

Merida Domingo is pretty cool. Every Sunday downtown they close off some of the streets and have venders and music and dancing. It’s just like what we saw on TV the night before I left, in fact, I was in that exact location today!

Today I got up around 9 and got dressed and rested and read my book. When my family got home I went to the cyber café to find out it’s closed on Sundays, so I walked a lot further to see if I could find another one but I couldn’t and I was sweating to death so I went home. When I got there I sat down in front of my fan to cool off, and then just laid in my hammock and read until two when I had lunch. It was really good today! Chicken and green pepper fajitas with rice and beans. And my favorite white drink!

Real Mom: la señora told me to tell you that she thinks I’m nice or something but I didn’t understand the last part. I’ll just pretend that I heard her say I was nice. I feel like she and the maid love me, they are so sweet! I feel kind of bad for not even knowing what their names are. Oh well, is it too late to ask? I just call them both Señora.

After lunch I got my computer and went to the plaza. My friends were all planning on meeting there at 4, but I went early to use the internet. I bought I coke, so I didn’t feel bad sitting at this table under a tent, while using my computer, but this guy made me move because he had other customers. So I just went and sat on a bench. The babies here are sooo cute! I sat outside and got to talk to Kyle a little bit on the computer but I was so afraid it was going to start raining. Also, there were a million pigeons around me and I was so scared that they were going to take a huge dump on my key board. When I was sitting there alone, I felt like everyone was looking at me like I was the first white person they had ever seen. That was different.

So, later I met up with my friends and we just walked around and we went into a government building where we saw huge paintings and more cute babies and stuff. Later we went to a restaurant and then we got tickets to this ballet. It was… interesting. Haha. We decided that we are going to do an interpretive dance for our final project, haha!

After that I just rode the bus back and hopped in the shower and now I’m just sitting in my hammock. Tomorrow is the first day of classes. Spanish at 10:30 and Ecology at 5. I’m looking forward to Spanish class! And ecology too, but we all already know each other so it’s not as exciting for a first day of class.

I feel so independent, being able to navigate the city buses to the places I need to go by myself. True, I can only get to two place by bus, but once I get down town I can walk to a lot of places. Still have no idea where my house is from a birds eye view. Well, that’s false, I think it’s kind of north east of downtown and east of the school of education (where Spanish class is). But I have never seen it on a map and I could never drive or walk to these places, or to other kid’s houses. I just get on the bus and look for the landmarks that tell me where I get off.

I love having people ask me if I speak Spanish, and saying yes, and understanding what they say and being able to put words together in response. It’s so fun! I just have random convos with people near me, like on the bus or when I sitting waiting somewhere or something

Monday 6/2/09 1:30 PM

Today was my first day of Spanish class, I got put in intermediate 1 which i think is just right. There is one teacher and 5 girls in my class. We even have homework but I don't think it will be too bad. They say the Spanish class is "intensive" and I agree with that statement totally! The other girls in my class are all in anthropology so that's good, so I'm not with those eco kids all the time! haha.

At 5 I have ecology class, that should be good. I think tomorrow since we don't have ecology we're all going to make a trip to Progreso (la playaaaa!) in the afternoon :)

I gotta go home for lunch soon. mucho amor