Yo hablo en español muy mal

I now either look like I have a disease, the chicken pox, or you mid-as-well play connect the dots to form a nice picture out of the amount of swollen mosquito bites I have on my body especially my calves. The most ridiculous part about the 20 mosquito bites I have is that my roommate, Courtney, has ZERO! How does that work!?

Well, as I have become more comfortable here especially around my family I have started letting the weird side out. I no longer sit back at meals and let everyone else do the talking. I say the 15 words in Spanish I know over and over again to get my 2 cents into the conversation. My senora thinks Court, Maris, and I are a bunch of locas together. Maris thinks we are muy divertida though! Meal times are getting longer and siesta time is getting shorter. Classes are getting more interesting, but is really getting in the way of fun time.

Last weekend, Court, Melissa, and I decided to get familiar with our vecindad. We found the supermarket which literally has everything a Super Walmart does times 2. This place is HUGE! Next we traveled onto Starbucks, where we met the most "interesting" man, Christopher, from Alaska, down here for Medical school, he is half way through is 5 year plan and thinks he knows everything there is to know about the Mexican culture. He taught us a few "new" words and "good" tricks to survive down here. The most true thing he said was "Si, verdad" which literally is used every sentence down here, it means like yes, true, or like I am right, huh. An hour later Christopher finally stopped to take a breathe of air so we could get up and run out of there before he talked anymore. The next day on our explorations we found this amazing ice cream place that we have gone to everyday since, it is literally the best ice cream ever! And every time we walk up now the guys laugh at us like the dumb Norte American girls are back again. The best flavor is galleta de oreo, literally tastes like an oreo in ice cream greatness, my dad would love this! Another new obsession of ours is Galletas con Cajeta. Cajeta is this amazing caramel like thing, sooo good! I am definitely bringing a bottle home with me!

I am sure sick of getting ready to go out, I miss my sweats and hoodies and am in desperate need of going out clothes. We have gone to a few super nice malls, all very expensive though. The clubs are awesome here, they put the ones in the U.S. to shame. And everyone goes which is really fun. This week we hung out with a lot of Maris' cousins at the club and other times through out the week. They are all super nice and like most people our age they speak English for when I do not understand or am just feeling lazy. Listening to Spanish all day is seriously mentally exhausting, but worth it.

This week also included a trip to Costco, got some pizza! Yum my favorita! A little gambling at one of many casinos. Lots of huge thunderstorms that literally sound like they are coming in through the ceiling. The whole house shakes and rattles for about 20 seconds its crazy. We also had our first nieve storm (as my senora called it. nieve is snow) haha. It was hail but still really insane. Because of all the rain we didn't go out as much because almost everything is half outside. This was okay though got some good skyping in with some good friends I miss lots including my siblings. Watched a few movies with my hermanos and got a nice visit from a primo from Colorado. My cousin David came to Guad for a business meeting, I would find cousins even in Mexico, right? He took me and Maris to this awesome restaurant where they had traditional Mexican dancing, it was a nice long dinner ending with ice cream!!

Fitting new favorite cancions.