The First Week is Over!

Yes! I've done it! I survived my first week in Mexico and it wasn't even that hard! My classes are great! I did switch to the advanced class, and it has been so much more fun. The professors are a lot more interesting and it's not hard to pay attention or keep up at all.

I'm becoming closer to the other students. Especially Amanda P. We do pretty much everything together since we are neighbors. She's nice and very candid. Luckily, she has a better sense of direction than I do. If we didn't walk to school together every morning, I don't think I would be able to find my way without a map. The walk to school/downtown is about 30-40 minutes depending on how fast we walk and if we take the shortcut through the tunnel. Either way, the walk involves tons of hills, narrow streets with speeding taxis and motorcyclists, food vendors hawking their wares, and tons of other people. It's fun.

Last night all the students gathered to have dinner at the program director Karen's house. It was awesome. Her house is amazing, first of all. Secondly, the food was great. She hired a taco-man to make tacos in her house, and we also had homemade guacamole and quesadillas. YUM! Afterwards, a few of us girls went out to see if our salsa dancing lessons were working. I am getting better at dancing (surprisingly!). But I still have a lot more work to do. Also, it depends on the dance partner. If the partner is good, then he simply pulls me and spins me and therefore it looks like I'm an awesome dancer too. :-)