A few happenings

Not too much has been happening here in Mexico. I survived my first round of tests last week. I had one test and a five page essay taking the place of a test. I was completely stressed out over this because our professor gave us the assignment 2 days before it was due, one class period before it was due and it was more or less and research paper, not a problem for me in English, but it took a lot of my time in Spanish, However it is done and over with and hopefully is ok. My mom and professor leder helped me with it, since my writing in Spanish is not always up to par. It was a difficult week of homework, but it led into a wonderful weekend.

First, Friday night we went dancing for the first time. One of our "teachers" came with us. She is actually our teacher, but is only 26 and teaches our class which is outside of the university. Anyways we went to Mambo Cafe for some salsa, kind of humorous since I for one have no idea how to dance! There was a live band it was incredibly fun! The thing about the clubs here in Merida is that none of them open until 11, so we were out quite late! Thank goodness for the weekend! So we danced the night away until 3:00 am and had a great time, not caring what we looked like at all!

Sunday, we made our way to Chichen Itza, one of the seven wonders of the world. It is an old mayan civilization with many old structures and a cenote. This cenote you cannot swim in because it is rather gross and it is believed that this cenote was where the mayans sacrificed the young virgens. So i am not sure who would want to swim in this cenote. After Chichen we went to Ik Kil, which is a gorgeous cenote, almost out of a movie and swam for a while. All in all a good weekend, where i got little to nothing done for homework and it was fantastic!

This week is again full of homework, i have another paper due and a test next week in one of the hardest classes we have, but next week friday begins our two weeks of spring break, we can barely handle our excitement!

Sorry, the photos are not working again, how annoying!