Around the city in 18 hours

Wow, I feel like I fit an entire vacation into one day today! First, I had breakfast with the Norwegians. Then, all of us study-abroad people met up downtown with our program director, and we took a tour of EVERYTHING. First, we went to San Gabriel - a huge mansion plantation type house built in the 1700's by the owner of a big mine. Mines are really important in Guanajuato, that's pretty much what made the town what it is. Then, we visited TWO historical churches, then we went and saw a huge mining hole with machinery coming out of it, then we went to a place where we actually went down into the mines (it was a lot of steep steps in the dark), then we went to see a historical statue called Papilo, THEN we drove 45 minutes to Christo Rey - an enormous statue of Christ that marks the center of Mexico.

One of the things that has been hard for all of us students is that in Mexico they eat a huge breakfast at 8 AM, and then don't each lunch until 2 or 3 PM. So it's hard to endure that long. I literally was at the point of exhaustion at lunch time. Oh, and another bad luck thing... I think I might have sprained my ankle. I tripped down a step at a taco tent and my ankle has been hurting ever since. Hopefully it's just bruised or something - if it turns black and swells up tomorrow then I will start to worry.

The night was busy as well. My host mom called her granddaughters over (they live right next to us). Fortunately, they are 21 and 24! Just my age. And they both study at the University here. They are super nice and tomorrow are going to show me how to get to class from the house. Yes, and of course the night ended with a group of us students going out to the bar to celebrate a birthday. It was fun and I am actually getting to know the other American students better.