I’m sitting here in the office right now on my second cup of coffee for the day because again, there’s nothing to do and in fact, my hardest thing to do today will be to stay awake. This weekend was SO exhausting but so much fun!

Actually, I went over to the other students’ house several times this week…On Wednesday, T.C., Reggie, Leah, and I went over to an Irish bar (yes, they have some really random ass Irish bars in Mexico…) called Celtics to grab dinner and then watch the Mexico-Brazil game. Unfortunately, Mexico won by 2, and the goals were all in the first half…they were great goals, not gonna like, but I’ve just never really been a fan of the Mexico team, seeing how my favourite team, Argentina, is like one of their enemies, haha. I’m so excited for Copa America!!! I REALLY wish I was in Venezuela right now ahhh. I am SO happy that Argentina won their first game against the US. It’s such a shame that the US national team is actually pretty good, but no one in the US really cares. I actually didn’t watch the entire game..after the first half I was so emotionally drained (from both soccer and from personal issues) that I just couldn’t watch the rest of it, plus the game was tied at that point – NOT GOOD. Haha luckily David told me the final score later on, so that made me happy again =). Then on Friday, I went to this random MEMS meeting at UNAM but left early…naturally, I got lost again, so I asked this one weird dude who happened to be the only person standing around for directions. As always, I ended up stuck talking to him until the bus came. He was kinda odd and kept asking me questions like “so do you have a boyfriend?” and “so when you are getting married?” (I’m not joking! He ACTUALLY asked me that and I have NO idea why he thought I was getting married…..). Anyways, I finally escaped. I don’t really remember what else happened during the week, but on Friday we had originally planned to watch Ocean’s 13 en español..that didn’t really work out because we looked at the wrong movie times, so we just sat around the apartment for a while before going out. SO hilarious. I brought over my $3 200 mL bottle of Bacardi that I’ve had for weeks, and T.C. and I finished it off almost completely just in one hour (ok..actually T.C. finished most of it haha). There was lots of hilarious picture-taking. Then it was going out and around the neighbourhood looking for bars and clubs. And we couldn’t find any! So we ended up going to La Pata Negra, which is apparently a club that Luis and T.C. have been to many many times. We met this one Mexican dude and his Venezuelan girlfriend and the Venezuelan girlfriend’s Venezuelan friend, who T.C. quite successfully hit on. Unfortunately, the Venezuelan girlfriend’s Venezuelan friend’s ex-boyfriend, who also happens to be the Mexican dude’s brother, also showed up and then fell in love with T.C. or something. Hahahahah. And then REGGIE! Ahahhahaha. For the sake of not embarrassing poor Reggie, I won’t post about what he did on Friday night. But it was hysterically funny and we took many pictures with T.C.’s camera.

On Saturday we took a bus to Taxco to look at the silver shiny things that they have there. It’s about a 2 hour drive from Mexico City, so we took this nice cheap charter bus there – I love how they gave us water and peanuts for the bus ride lol. Taxco was pretty and relaxing and we also took this cable car ride above the mountains! The view was incredible. Leah and Reggie were saying that it looked a lot like Europe. Overall, Saturday afternoon was a lot of walking around and enjoying the pretty sights. We decided to head to Cuernavaca at night to check out the nightlife (apparently the clubs there actually have people our age, and not the age of old people). It wasn’t too bad…I’m not the biggest fan of clubs and stuff, but it was still super amusing to go, especially if it’s free. This one club was so WEIRD. There were actually GUYS dancing on the tables! I mean, wow. One guy we were watching even took his shirt off and started swinging it around hahahaha. Upon which, Reggie was like “ok, we’re getting out of here.” We finally got back to the hotel at 4 or 5 am. OH yea, we stayed in a NICE hotel, credit to Leah! All the rest of us were like yea, we’ll stay whatever, but Leah really wanted to stay in a safe hotel, even if it cost a little more. It actually turned out to be a GREAT idea, because we got a double for like $135…split it between 5 people, and it’s dirt cheap for how ridiculously nice it was. I can’t even remember the last time I’ve ever been in a hotel this nice. They even had a ridiculously awesome breakfast buffet in the morning, and a pool. It was awesome. I sat around on the deck with the others and watched them drink Coronas…it felt like we were in Miami or something – definitely not Mexico. The boys + Leah stayed around in Cuernavaca for a while on Sunday but I went back to the city earlier to just kinda relax – plus I REALLY wanted to beat the Sunday traffic.

I think we’re gonna all try to see if we can get this Wednesday off for Fourth of July, and maybe go to Six Flags next Saturday! Yes, I know, it’s definitely not something very Mexico-ish to do, but it’s nice to be American every once in a while. =). Meanwhile, back to trying to stay awake in the office. I really hope they let me have Wednesday off, but it’ll be hard to ask because uh, I don’t do anything at work anyways. Seriously, I have never worked so little for such a long time in my life, and I’m not really sure if I prefer it or not.