don´t think i´ve died

For my faithful blog-checkers, I wanted to let you know that I will be out a touch for awhile. Tomorrow afternoon we´re leaving to spend the weekend in Cancun and then I´ll be traveling to Xochempich to spend a week there. It´s the little town that Ted and Nelson are from (I´ll be staying with [...]

I don´t feel like elaborating right now but I figured it was time to jot some things down before I forget. This is what I´ve been up to. Fill in the rest with studying at the library, eating, sleeping 8 hours every night and usually taking a nap, watching tv, reading. I know, I´m lucky. [...]

simplicity

I´m sitting here in the Science Library in Merida, up to my ears in square roots and exponents, and it reminds me too much of my American life. So I´m taking a break and taking advantage of the slow (but free) internet here. And I´m writing about my simpler, Mexican life.

Chicharrones
In my American house, we [...]

Friday

I slept in a bit and met Ted at the hotel where he was working at a conference which focused mostly on AIDS and related diseases. The hotel is called Fiesta Americana and is VERY nice. It´s across the street from the Hyatt. So with Paulina´s hand-drawn map I was able to learn another bus [...]

no food today

Don´t worry, I did eat today, but my parents told me that my blogs are always about food so today I´m not going to tell you about what I ate. Sorry.
Not a whole lot new today. I went downtown again to study at the air-conditioned library. On my way there, I stopped off in a [...]

juice

As you can probably tell, i´ve had a lot of free time today. We just finished lunch and I wanted to tell you about the drinks here. They drink a ton of Coke- I mean the nasty, gross, full of sugar kind. But every day for lunch, when Pau´s dad, Jose Luis, gets home we [...]

pollo pibil

Ok, don´t try this at home. I´m just writing it down to remember. Rosi just taught me how to make what we´re having for dinner tonight- pollo pibil. I guess if you have a Mexican grocery nearby and you´re adventurous you can try to make it:) But I won´t promise anything.
- Line a big pot [...]

empañadas…hushpuppies…yum

The last two days have been pretty low key which is nice after running around for a week. Yesterday, I decided to stay at home by myself and just rest and study. I went to the store to buy some Trix for breakfast- it´s nice because there are so many little stores and restaurants within [...]

all by myself…almost

Today was my first day in the city by myself.
But I´ll start with yesterday morning. Pau and I met Nelson at their church because he played the drums yesterday. Their church is very small, about 20 people, but I really liked it. It lasted about 2 hours. But we were about 20 minutes late. Which [...]

a day of many firsts

Wow! Can I just say that I love love love Merida!!! And my amazing friends here- though of course I miss all of you at home:) Ok, so even though no one has commented on what I wrote last night I´ll write again. I´m writing this as much for myself as I am for anyone [...]