Postcards from my life

We had quite an adventure last night. One of those moments when you really do not understand this country. So, we were at Sarah's for a 'gathering' as she called it. Very nice. It was Malin, Chris, Kat, Kimzey, Sarah and me. We were just chilling and catching up with Kat after her return to Guadalajara that same day. When the clock struck 2 am we decided to head home. Kat, Malin and me. We walk out and go toward Benji. And that's when we see the giant white Mustang that is blocking our precious Benji in. Out comes two or three persons, they look at the Mustang to make sure we haven't scratched it, and then all of them except one walks away again. The women who stays behind a little bit pretty much yells at us that they will not move their car because we have violated their private space and this happens all the time and no one respects them and so on. We were in complete shock. We were told we could park anywhere and thus assumed this was the case. Malin tries to wedge Benji out by testing her driving skills. Problem is that there was a giant block of concrete just in front of us so we didn't have that much moving space. The people just stood in the door looking at us! And did nothing! Malin and I walked down to the guards by the entrance to the gated community, and explain the situation. He comes with us and looks at the cars and tries to help us. He was truly a nice person and did everything he could. He walked over to the people and tried to reason with them, but it didn't help. And we stood there. By Benji's side not being able to do anything. We kept asking ourselves what they would gain from the situation. They were the ones standing on the street in pyjamas, we were all up so an hour more or less doesn't make that much difference. The guard comes back and says that they refuse to help and that they owner is a asleep (the owner was down before we got the guard and Kat saw him looking out a window). The guard calls his supervisor hoping he can resolve the situation. We just stand there and wonder what the hell these people want. We did keep laughing though, thinking that this situation would only happen in Mexico. They were standing right there!! Why couldn't they just move their precious car??? Completey and utterly weird in our opinion. The supervisor came and was scary. He had hand coughs with him, and didn't look at us and just seemed generally scary. He explains to us that these spots are for residents only. And yes, now we obviously know this. Had we known this before we wouldn't have parked there, cause it's not like we want to create trouble! Then, as we decide to try to drive over the block of concrete a car pulls up into that parking space and blocks the only possible exit we had!! Things could not get worse! However, I ask the friendly guard if he could ask the man in the car if he could park somewhere else for just ten minutes or so while we try to get our car out. This man was also super friendly and helped us out. He could not understand why they just didn't move their Mustang. He happily moved his car and then helped us. We did manage to get Benji out without a scratch in the end. The Mustang didn't move an inch. And while we were just inches away from scraping it while trying to get Benji out the owners were just standing looking. By the time we had managed to set Benji free there were quite a few neighbours out on the street and others looking through the window. All giving evil looks to the owners by the door. When we left we thanked the guard and the other man several times. And we wished the owners of the Mustang a pleasent evening.

We drove off and screamed. Wondering what these people were thinking and what they possibly gained from the situation. They probably saw the opportunity to mess with some blondes. We also concluded that Kat, Malin and me shouldn't do things together. First the boat adventure in Belize. And now this. We are not a good combination.

I think this is one of the most absurd situations I have ever been in.

This song is so Mexico to me now. It will always remind me of my time here. All the road trips. All the laughter. =)

 

 

So, the third week of classes is over. Can't believe its already been three weeks... And next week partials are up! Those lovely partials :P It's a kind of love hate thing going on there I would say. They are so annoying cause it means that all the work always falls at the same time. Like next week I have two exams (Thursday and Friday) and the week after I have two essays due. But it also means that you can really feel time going. Now first partial is almost over and before I know it the second one will be too. It makes you have small goals rather than just aiming for those exams in May like we do in England. In that way it's nice.

Tonight it's off to Sarah's for a bit of partying. Fun fun. And then we'll see what happens over the weekend. Kat is staying here so that should be fun. Should really try to get some work done too though... Have a nice list of things I need/want to do before Tuesday when it's back to school again. Yeah, Monday is off! Well, Monday is always off for me, but this Monday EVERYONE is off. And Tec is closed so I can't even go to the gym ;) But my knee is hurting from today so it might be good with a break....

No Tuxpan trip. Food poisoning hit instead. So what have I done today?
I've slept. For hours and hours and hours. Which I see as a sign of the fact that I probably needed to sleep. There's been a lot going on in my head lately. And I'm tired.

I was sitting looking around on my computer just now and stumbled upon the folder with different 'texts' that I've written. Made me realise I don't write anymore. It used to be such a huge part of my life. My way to vent without needing to tell anyone what was going on inside me. Many of them are from the fall of 2004. But those I don't read. Maybe one day I'll have the courage and strength to look at those words again. But five years might have past, but it still hurts too much. It is kind of nice though to sit and read what I've written.


Looking forward to the weekend. Laura and Kat will be back in town :)

It's been a long day. A very long day. And some how I ended up sitting in the kitchen and now my back hurts... I should just go upstairs to my lovely bed. I'll probably do that pretty soon. I've been organising my newly acquired Beatles collection =) But now they don't want to load up into iTunes... Weird...

So, tomorrow I'm going to Tuxpan! At the moment I keep asking myself why I signed up when it is my day off and I could have stayed in bed doing nothing :P But I'm sure it's gonna be fun. And a good opportunity to mingle with some new people maybe! I'll bring my camera so I might put up some photos tomorrow evening. We'll see..

I'm ready to go to bed.

I heard that some actually read this blog so maybe I should start to write a bit more.. I've been lazy lately..
School's back in full motion. Syntax to learn more Spanish. And then one class in English and two in Spanish. Oh my god is all I have to say. The classes in Spanish will most likely be my death. But so far I seem to understand most of it. I've only misunderstood one assignment so far :P I'm sure there's more to come!

It's still weird walking around campus not seeing the familiar faces from last semester, but slowly I'm getting used to seeing the new faces. But it's tricky getting to know them. They are all bonding over visa issues, Chapala trips and the whole getting to know Tec and Gdl. While we are lazy and stick to our own crowd.. Lunch is most often spent with Sarah, Malin, Mandy, Kimzey, Martin and Omar. Rosanna sometimes. People from last year in other words. But it's stupid cause the new people don't sit at the good tables! They sit in the shade so if we go sit with them it's so cold! :P That's our lame excuse!


And I'm still planning on going to LA. Even though I can't get a hold of my friend. I need to get away. And that was decided before chaos hit.


And just so you know, it will be okay. I know it doesn't feel like that right now. But it will be. It will just take some time.

Oh, and if you haven't already donated something to Haiti, do so! It's one of the world's poorest countries. And it keeps being beaten up by different forces. They deserve your help, and it is you duty to help! So do something!

So, back to business. It was weird. Walking around campus and not seeing the familiar faces I've gotten so used to seeing every day. Not bumping in to friendly people while walking around (I'm sure the people I see are friendly, I just don't know them...). Not immediately spotting people to sit with for lunch. Malin and I got super excited this morning after we had bought our Starbucks coffee when we saw that there actually were people we knew sitting at a table! There they were, Mandy, Simon and Lottie. Familiar faces.

It's going to be weird getting into the old habits and routines without the people who used to play such big parts in it.

Four weeks. Loads of adventure. And memories that will last a life time.


We started off by almost getting shipwrecked outside the Belizean coast. But instead we ended up on a deserted, tropical island. Our own little paradise...

It was magical.

Then we met up with my brother! And we spent days just lying around in the sun by Tulum's beautiful beaches.

After having said good bye to the rest of the gang we went off to Cozumel where we rented a beetle and had an amazing day just laughing and having fun!

 

And then our ruins-tour started! We had already gotten a head start with ruins in Tulum and on Cozumel. And now we headed off to Chichen Itza. One of the new 7 wonders!

Beautiful.. Especially since we went there early before the bus loads of people showed up!

We saw more ruins and pyramides outside Mérida at Uxmal.

And then we headed off to Mexico City.

We embraced our touristy-ness and took the tourist dubbel decker bus around town! Really fun and good trip!

And then we climbed some more pyramides!

 

All in all, a pretty amazing trip! =)