To study or to post...

At the Tec de Monterrey, every semester in your classes you have 3 partial exams and a final. Tomorrow is my first partial for Social History and Culture of Latin America class (historias sociales y culturas de Latinamerica) so I am kind of stressing about that, but my other two classes won't be too bad because they are just spanish and spanish communicating skills class. I only have three classes because one class is 4 times a week for an hour and a half each which equals to 6 credits and the other two equal 3 credits each so thats 12 hours, plus I have one credit because I have to keep a diary and send it to SEMO each week about my stay here. I wish they could just read my blog :)

So..I have a test tomorrow, yet I am blogging. I really would like to visit maybe Cuernavaca this weekend. I don't have friday classes and on thursdays my classes finish at 2:30 so I could hop on a bus right after that for the weekend. ¿Quien sabe? Who knows..Cuernavaca is known as the The Land of Eternal Spring, because it supposedly has amazing weather all year round. Diego Rivera has lived there too, the famous Mexican Muralist.

Last friday I went with my culture class to see a play called Los Insurgentes (The Insurgents), it was telling about how Mexico wanted to gain its independence from Spain. The play was held in the Centro and it was super interactive too because about an hour into the play we got up from our seats and had to leave the building that it was in, and we followed the actors in the streets yelling...´´Viva Mexico´´ and wearing sombreros hah, it was intense. I think all of this is happening because in 14 days, on the 16th of September is Mexico´s Independence Day..and next year, in 2010, is the 200th celebration because they gained their independence in 1810. So they are kind of gearing up for that..maybe I should come back for the celebration next year, it will be kind of spectacular to see. Independence day here is def more intense than in the US..I mean, we dont just eat tacos and watch fireworks, they get out in the street and yell (grita) ¡VIVA MEXICO! Anyway...that is soon to come.

In another part of the news, let me tell you about a little something here called PDA (Public Display of Affection)..like you have never seen before hah. I actually first learned about this when I was living in Merida, Yucatan and I went to the mall and all the couples were just walking around the mall, kind of all over each other. It is the same here and one day my friend and I were trying to explain to some Mexicans that that really doesn't happen in the US, not because the couple doesn't like each other..just because it is kind of courtious to other people not to be kissing or whatnot right in front of them. We are just two different cultures and have two different way of doing things..I think this kind of thing translates to other things as well, like, to why white people aren't such good dancers, i don't know. I think this also translates to what I have seen at futbol (soccer) games. When I went to the futbol game in Guadalajara, the Gallos, the team from Queretaro, were the visitors. So we had a small section in a huge stadium and when the Chivas (home team) scored, my section starts doing all kinds of chants and flipping off all the fans around us and yelling obscenities in spanish (i was not participating in this hah), and I think this was all happening because they are soo passionate about their team. I mean, even OLLDDD ladies were participating in this. Crazy, it made my day for sure.

Okay, I have to study,..atleast a little bit.

BESOS!! -Carolina