Moving out and going home

I finally moved into my new apartment! After 2 weeks of trying to figure out who we could get to be my fiador and sign for me on the contract saying that if I messed anything up they would be responsible we instead turned to a lawyer to draw up a more official contract that doesn’t require a fiador, it only requires a fee of 1500 pesos and my first born child, but luckily im not going to be in this apartment 10 years from now when that time comes. The apartment is small, but I don’t need much space so its perfect, not like I’m going to be throwing any crazy parties or having people over. When you enter the apartment you step into my bedroom, which came furnished with a bed, little night stand, bookshelf/dresser and most importantly, a fan. Maybe equally important is the amount of closet space provided, in my room one of the walls is mostly closet, then in the hallway that leads to the kitchen there is another small closet perfect for hanging coats and such. But that’s not all folks, step into the kitchen and next to the pantry there is yet another closet. There is supposed to be a washer there, thus the closet space, however they didn’t install one and I don’t exactly remember why. The kitchen is small with a half size fridge but honestly, how much food do I need to keep in there? I have a stove but no oven, but really I don’t see myself doing that much baking, and most Mexican food is prepared on the stove top anyways. There is a small table and two little stools and a really neat wall with seven little cut outs, I just need to find cool things to put in them. I am really excited about the apartment, the only things is it’s a little plain right now, with all the white walls and such, but that will soon be fixed and I’ll have more things than I can find a space for probably. Whys that you ask…. Because I’m going home,

That’s right, I’m going home to San Diego and will be returning by car, a nice 23 hour car ride with a stop over in guaymas to sleep for about 6 hours. The main thing we are going to get is my car, living here without a car isn’t horrible, I just don’t like it. I’m used to my freedom and not being dependent on the bus to get to work on time or to simply go to the grocery store. So this Thursday we are peacing out of Guadalajara around noon and wont be back till late Monday night. Its weird thinking about going back, because in my mind I had it set that I wasn’t going to be back in the states until Christmas. But I’m really excited, not only because I will have my car and pictures and things from home, but because I miss San Diego. That’s right mom, I actually miss home so don’t you be getting all worried that I’m gonna run away and never come back.

I got my first paycheck this week, however it was only for one week of work, and not even a full week because I hadn’t fully been worked into the schedule yet. But still, a paycheck is a paycheck and I was excited to get my first one. Don’t tell the Mexican government but I still haven’t gotten my work visa… I’m kinda being paid under the table right now, or under water as its called in Spanish. Not that I need to be paid under the table or that it would be any problem to get my work visa, its just that I started working before I was even done with my teachers training class and it was forgotten about. I reminded my boss that I needed to get it and she was like, oh yeah, we need to look into how we go about getting you that. Basically no one really cares. Another exciting thing about my paycheck is that I was actually paid the amount I earned, nothing taken out for good ol uncle sam.

The only thing that I’m not so happy about with regards to moving into my apartment is that I currently don’t have internet or tv. I can bring my tv back from San Diego, thus no point going out and buying one here. As for the internet hopefully they can install it soon. There is a wireless network that I pick up in my apartment, unfortunately they have it password protected and when I tried to hack it it told me that the server had a list of computers allowed to access the network and my computer was not on the list. But once I get internet and bring my car and things from San Diego I can officially say that I am living in Guadalajara.