This month has been exciting. November in Puerto Escondido is the month of parties.. I went to Oaxaca city to celebrate dia de los muertos and halloween.. i decorated altars for the dead, went to decorated cementary parties, they held little parties with costumes in the streets, i went shopping.. actual shopping.. to the movie theatre to watch a mexican film, to the markets, the newest disco in the city with other exchange students that i met at our conference. other thing.. we had a rotary conference in Campeche (a 21 hour non stop bus ride there and 18 back).. met the exchange students in our conference, exhcanged pins and cards, it was really fun. we´ve set up dates to get together. but all of tabasco is flooded now and mexico is in major crisis. my host father´s children are over there so he´s left to go help. let´s see.. i´ve gone out a lot with my friends now, to see the sunset on the beach, (it´s absolutely incredible), to go dancing in clubs (trying to learn=impossible), to the gym (the other exchange students and i take spinning classes--yet i keep gaining weight), we´ve had dance contests, beauty contests, miss prepa puerto contests, miss puerto contests, miss chiquitita (6 year olds modeling bikinis and dancing reggaeton), sunday i´m going with my friends and family to a motorcross event, and the next weekend being the huge surfing tournaments. there´s always something going on in my small town. my spanish classes started this past friday, with a german professor.. with my allowance i´m also thinking of taking up german classes, but we´ll see how the spanish classes go first. i researched and gave a big presentation in my mexican rights class friday.. which was odd, a girl from the united states answering questions from her mexican friends about the mexican constitution.. but hopefully it´ll up my grade. my current gpa is 2.3 (=23%).. it´s so impossible to follow every teacher, get the homework.. the tests are designed to fail.. the spanish is still challenging but i love it here.
thank you all and i wish you a happy thanksgiving (and hope your halloween went well).
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