But I haven´t written in a while mostly cause nothing too exciting has happened. But I thought that I should give you a solid update on my life these past few weeks.Well mostly, I have definitely started to feel really comfortable here, and of course that feeling comes right before I leave but whatev. I think the main reason why I am feeling more comfortable is because of my Mexican friends. For the past 3 months we have all been friends, but it takes a little while to get comfortable with people, and even longer when there is a language barrior. All of my mexican friends are guys and most of them play socc
er, so we have been going to their games, so fun, and then afterwards we go to one of their houses to swim and just have fun for the night. And I have started to feel more comfortable with my spanish too. I know that it isn´t any where near fluent, but it is so much better. Just looking back on the first weeks when I had headaches everyday from consentrating so much but still not understanding, to now where I can somewhat do two things at once while speaking. And the school has been great, but I do give a lot of credit to hanging out with Mexicans, it helps so much.A few weeks ago we went to Las Grutas, which were incredible. They are these caves here in my state that are just huge, it was so much fun! And of course our tourguide pointed out different rocks that supposedly looked like something else, like a monkey or a bottle of champange or people kissing.
Last weekend, some of my girl friends and I went for a long walk from my house to the center. It was so great. Normally we take a taxi, but we really wanted to see the city this way and we did exactly that. I never noticed some of the beautiful parts of Cuernavaca. When we were walking we came across some sort of park, so we decided to enter, it turned out to be a beautiful botanical garden in the middle of the city. It was mostly under a bridge that I pass by every day in a taxi. You know just sometimes you need to take a walk and really look at what is around you!
Last week was my last week at the school where we try to teach english. Doing this was one of my favorite parts of this semester. All the children were so cute and just were such a pleasure. I know that you aren´t suppose to have your favorites but everyone does. There are these 2 boys that always come, Raul y Natal. They are about 10 years old and just so sweet. Everyday after the class is over we play games with them for a like 20 minutes. One time we taught them how to play MArco Polo (outside of the water) and they fell in love with it! They just have so much energy and really love hanging out together. I will never forget this one day when we were teaching them things that were at a party. One of our words was music, and as soon as someone said music I started to sing to myself ¨Please don´t stop the music, music, music¨ and I turn to Natal and he was singing the same thing :) Where we teach is not a good neighborhood at all, and it just breaks my heart to think how their lives will be in the future. They both are so incredibly smart but in reality they probably won´t make it very far just because of where they came from. It just breaks my heart to think how they will be living their lives in 10 years. I just keep praying that they will keep out of trouble and that they really will be gifted with a blessed life, whatever that means. I was really sad to say goodbye to them. And I know that they probably won´t really remember anything that we taught them, but just spending time with them I know makes a difference. Everyone needs love in their lives and need to know that people care about them. But since then, Claire and I started volunteering at an Orphanage. This place just breaks my heart too. It really is not in good condicion. It is in one of the worst parts of town and there are probably about 40 kids there, of all ages. But these kids are just so adorable. They really love and support eachother like they are a family. Some of them aren´t orphans at all acutally, some of their families don´t have enough money to support them and so the government takes them and places them in places like this. Ulitimately it probably is a good thing. At least I know that they are being feed everyday and that they are attending school. I have a friend that helped out with this orphanage last summer and started raising money for them. She goes to NAU so hopefully I can help out a little more when I get back. I just love this place and want to play with these kids all day long.
Well this weekend is my last and I really just want to do everything that I haven´t yet. We might be going to a Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling) and we probably are going to spend a lot of time wandering the streets of Cuerna. I can´t wait to see all of you (only 10 more days) but I will definitely be sad to be leaving. This place has become part of my life that I will never forget!
Ok so the pictures, one is of my roommate Claire, our conversation teacher who more or less is more of one of my best friends here, and me. The other is part of the city, infront of El Palacio de Cortez. Isn´t it beautiful.
Ok so from the length of this post, I guess I have had a lot more stuff go on than I thought!
Hasta muy pronto!
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