Mexico Dia Trece
I woke up, had some frosted shredded wheat with soy milk for breakfast along side my usual fresh squeezed papaya juice. I quickly made some corrections to a paper and ran to get the combi. Historia was interesting, we talked about the mayas and a few groups gave presentations on specific areas of ancient Mexican history. Sociedad y cultura was fast as usual. I had to make a presentation, but i really wasn´t ready. I ended up giving my presentation to a nearby wall, which seemed a little bit more interested than the class. It wasn`t too bad though.
The elections are coming up soon, so everyone is talking about politics. Felipe Calderon seems to be the most popular in Morelia, because he is form here. He is running with PAN. There are three parties: PRD, PRI, PAN. PRD tends to have more leftist ideals, PRI represents the middle, and PAN represents the right. PRI has been in power for over seventy years in Mexico, but lost the recent 2000 election to PAN´s Vincente Fox. PRI still holds the most postitions (senators, governors, etc) in the country, but it is said that their power is dwindling. It is interesting to learn that Mexico has a three party system.
After class I went home, trying a different combi route, which turned out to be much quicker and require less walking. I had spaghetti with tortillas, salsa, and a vegetable sauce. Mis padres two year old sun was over for a lunch. His name is Mateo and he is very, very cute. He provided the perfect excuse for giving my family a robotic dancing dog. He really liked the dog, which was cool.
After lunch i went for a walk exploring my surrounding area, which is quite large. I found a golf club, a number of intersting stores, and some very quaint little neighborhoods. I met a guy named Ricardo who had a friend who lives in Australia and a guy named Moses whose parents live in the US. I went to office depot and bought a notebook and some highlighters. I then returned home to do some studying and watch some spanish tv. I turned the TV on and flipped channels until i came to the Spanish version of Wheel of Furtune, it was pretty funny. The puzzles seem allot harder and the prizes are smaller, but the show just seemed mejor in spanish.
At around 9:00 I took the combi to la catedral, where a bunch of students were meeting to go out. It is the end of the Hidalgo University`s (the university I am studying at) school year and there was a party for students to celebrate. We all went to a night club in el centro. It was a pretty nice place and they had a live band. The band was singing all sorts of American songs, but they were pretty good. The bar had these 2 liter, giant, corona bottles that were 66 pesos. They were just like a regular corona bottle only 300 times the size. Everyone got a bunch of the giant coronas, mainly because they looked really cool. I stayed at the club, danced and talked, until around one and then took a taxi back to my house.
The elections are coming up soon, so everyone is talking about politics. Felipe Calderon seems to be the most popular in Morelia, because he is form here. He is running with PAN. There are three parties: PRD, PRI, PAN. PRD tends to have more leftist ideals, PRI represents the middle, and PAN represents the right. PRI has been in power for over seventy years in Mexico, but lost the recent 2000 election to PAN´s Vincente Fox. PRI still holds the most postitions (senators, governors, etc) in the country, but it is said that their power is dwindling. It is interesting to learn that Mexico has a three party system.
After class I went home, trying a different combi route, which turned out to be much quicker and require less walking. I had spaghetti with tortillas, salsa, and a vegetable sauce. Mis padres two year old sun was over for a lunch. His name is Mateo and he is very, very cute. He provided the perfect excuse for giving my family a robotic dancing dog. He really liked the dog, which was cool.
After lunch i went for a walk exploring my surrounding area, which is quite large. I found a golf club, a number of intersting stores, and some very quaint little neighborhoods. I met a guy named Ricardo who had a friend who lives in Australia and a guy named Moses whose parents live in the US. I went to office depot and bought a notebook and some highlighters. I then returned home to do some studying and watch some spanish tv. I turned the TV on and flipped channels until i came to the Spanish version of Wheel of Furtune, it was pretty funny. The puzzles seem allot harder and the prizes are smaller, but the show just seemed mejor in spanish.
At around 9:00 I took the combi to la catedral, where a bunch of students were meeting to go out. It is the end of the Hidalgo University`s (the university I am studying at) school year and there was a party for students to celebrate. We all went to a night club in el centro. It was a pretty nice place and they had a live band. The band was singing all sorts of American songs, but they were pretty good. The bar had these 2 liter, giant, corona bottles that were 66 pesos. They were just like a regular corona bottle only 300 times the size. Everyone got a bunch of the giant coronas, mainly because they looked really cool. I stayed at the club, danced and talked, until around one and then took a taxi back to my house.
glad to hear you found a use for the robot dog!
Posted by Liam | 12:55 PM