Last week at work was pretty uneventful….The stuff that they’re living me to do just isn’t taking that long, even though I think that they think that it will take a while. But it really doesn’t, and I’m not sure if they realize that or not….even after I’ve told them that. Oh well. Plus, I’m waiting on a whole bunch of stuff from other people, and the higher up in the organizational hierarchy that you get, the slower the information flows down to you. So yea, it’s a whole lot of waiting, sitting around, checking email every 15 minutes, reading bbc.co.uk/football, wasting time on facebook, working on essays, attempting to write some short stories, and all of this while half-heartedly reading about diabetes. It’s funny, apparently half of the other people do the same thing..I think TC was telling us about how he was just surfing around playing games on the web. And Leah was looking at Puerto Vallarta stuff, haha.

Basically it means that during the week, nothing eventful really ever happens. Which is kinda ok with me, because whereas I like hanging out with people, I think it’s nice to have my own solitude too. For example, on Sunday, I found this café in my neighbourhood (I’ve actually passed it a billion times without ever thinking of going in) and just sat there and had coffee and a croissant and wrote. And then I went back to the apartment, wrote some, talked on the phone for a looooong time (hehe), drank tea and wrote some more, all while blasting Dvorak 8 and other awesome pieces from my laptop. It was nice. I prefer life like this than to going out to bars and stuff. Which is why I’m kinda glad that I live in Narvarte instead of Condesa, even though everyone else lives in Condesa. Condesa is basically known for being the “SoHo” of Mexico City, which is cool, especially for young people. I don’t know. I guess I feel like I’ve been pushed through life too quickly…so in a way, I wouldn’t consider myself wise and mature, but at the same time, I can’t imagine myself REALLY enjoying going out to clubbing and bars all the time. Yet, I think it’s still fun once in a while, especially when you’re with people who you’re really good friends with.

But the weekends here are a lot more fun, thankfully. On Friday, I went over to the other students’ apartment and hung out there for a while after meeting up with Leah and spending the some time in the HUGEST artesan market ever. It was amazing! So many arts and crafts stuff that actually LOOK Mexican – most of the random stuff that they sell on the streets here is stuff that you can find in the US (like lighters, dvds, and porn, to name a few), so I don’t really like buying stuff off the streets. But this artesan place was amazing – there was even a guy actually MAKING guitars and violins as we walked by! I asked him how much the violin cost, and it was…get this…65 freaking dollars. Um, cheapest violin EVER. Maybe it’s not the greatest violin in the world, but that’s still pretty neat. I’m gonna have to go back there again and take a closer look at all the stuff there. The thing though, is that there’s so many people and stuff there, that I feel like half the people are lucky if they even get a few customers a day at their stalls. And I feel really bad for them, because everything is freaking hand-made, yet so cheap! For example, there was this one woman selling these really nice earrings for $3 each. We asked her how long it took her to make one pair, and she said it took one entire day…..

Anyways, we got back from the artesan place, and then went with T.C to get dinner at…Burger King. Hahaha. It was soooo good though, I think I just really miss American food. I think we freaked out this little kid sitting behind us though. So remember how I had said earlier that in Mexico, the ONLY people you ever see are Mexicans? Haha so yea, this little kid had probably never seen an Asian person, a white person, or a black person before, and here we are, all in one place at the same time. After that Leah and I went with Nicki to this party that Nicki’s boss was having at his place, and we were supposed to meet up with Luis, TC, and Reggie later on at Mama Rumba. The party wasn’t really a party, just some people from Nicki’s work place sitting around with alcohol…it was fun though. We finally made it over to Mama Rumba (salsa dancing place that Nicki REALLY likes) at like 1:30 am, and seriously, I hate to be negative but I am never going there again! I suppose it’s a great place if you love salsa and clubbing and stuff, but I could never get used to the fact that there’s strange people who are all jammed up against you. And these people were OLD. I got stuck dancing with one person for like 10 minutes because the song was so damn long, and then Leah and I both left because we were just so grossed out, haha. We got back to the house, and the boys arrived there soon afterwards, and we just sat around talking until 4:30 before we realized that we needed to kinda sleep so that we could go the pyramids (Teotihuacan) the next day.

Saturday was Teotihuacan, which was really fun, despite a few mishaps…! We (Luis, TC, Leah, me) left the apartment around 10:30 am, but didn’t get to Teotihuacan until 3 pm on what was supposed to be a 1.5 hour trip. That was really amusing when we figured it out. So what happened is that Nicki and Reggie had gone the week before, and they mentioned not to get off at the first stop, but the 2nd or 3rd instead. Ok, cool. We got to the first stop, saw the pyramids, and we were all like, ok fine, let’s wait for the second stop. So we keep driving, and we start noticing that…we don’t see pyramids anymore. Ok, still cool, maybe the bus is just going around to the other side of the pyramids. We go a little while longer, and finally we ask the bus driver. Ends up that we had passed the pyramids a LONG time ago. So we got off the bus and basically retraced our steps backwards to the pyramids, lol. The pyramids were pretty neat – Teotihuacan is this old ancient city that was so old that when the Aztecs came to Mexico, they found Teotihuacan in ruins. No one knows what happened to the people there. It’s basically like a mini city with things that you can climb and admire the view from. The pyramids themselves are the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon (which was actually closed off so we couldn’t climb that one), and I think they were used as temples. The Pyramid of the Sun is in fact the third largest pyramid in the world (the first two are the ones in Egypt), but even then, it’s still only half the height of the second largest pyramid. Well, it looked pretty intimidating from the base! The weird thing though, is that it was relatively easy to climb. There were only 248 steps (which is not a lot, considering how huge the thing looks), and it took us about 15 minutes to get up all of them. Then we stood at the top and took pretty pictures. I took this pretty awesome picture of TC pretending like he’s climbing over the edge of the pyramid without steps, hehe. OH and there’s also this piece of silver embedded at the top of the pyramid – apparently you’re supposed to put your finger on it, and make a wish! I hope my wish comes true. =) And yea, I totally climbed that beast wearing flip-flops!

Naturally, at 5 pm that day, it started to rain, so we ran half the way back from the pyramid to the bus stop. Thankfully, the bus ride back was only an hour, since we figured it all out correctly this time! Went back to the apartment and went to dinner at HOOTERS…hahaha I love how we’re totally not eating Mexican food in Mexico. Luis apparently went there during the week because it’s pretty close to his workplace and he said the wings were really good, so we decided to go there. I seriously have NEVER eaten such spicy wings in my life, plus the waitress kinda messed up our order. We ordered 10 of the spiciest ones, 50 of the normal ones, 20 barbeque and 20 of the kinda hot ones. Instead, we got 10 of the normal ones and FIFTY of the spiciest ones. Ohhh man. I ate one and was tearing up and I’ve NEVER teared up before while eating spicy things. So I gave up and ate the bbq and regular ones. Leah had one bite and gave up. TC, Luis, and Reggie were all SWEATING like crazy but I think they wanted to tough it out, so they ate the spicy ones. Plus a buttload of beer. Reggie went to the rest room and was like “oh man. I washed my hands before I went but…it wasn’t enough.” Hahahahahahah so classic. Afterwards we walked around for a while trying to find a bar or something, but everything looked close (perhaps we were too early, apparently Mexico doesn’t start partying until midnight anyways)…plus I was tired and not really in the mood to go out anyways. We ended up going back to their apartment and tried to look up bars. Reggie found a place called “Pervert Lounge,” no joke. I went home so I don’t know if they went or not, but not gonna lie, I’m kinda curious..!

Sunday was just a lot of sitting around and some serious relaxing (as mentioned earlier in this post). So that was this week. I can’t believe it’s almost been a month since I’ve been here…it’s definitely flown by, but I have to say that I’m really glad it’s half over. Mexico is nice, but it’s not me. It’s definitely not me. I think Mexico would be a great place to go for a vacation, but as for living in Mexico, I’m not too sure. BUT we’ll see what happens next month!