Same ol same ol

So its been a month since my last blog and I guess I should have updated sooner. I have realized that I have become a total Mexican driver. Not in the sense that I am a bad driver, but that I get impatient with people after about 2 seconds. I am still not to the point where I will honk, but I just tell them in my head or out loud depending on my mood to hurry up. Also on roads that before I was frustrated by people making their own second lane where it was meant to be one large lane I tend to always be in the second non existent lane now. Not that I am doing anything unsafe, I am just getting used to the faster pace of driving. It is really ironic that people are in such a rush here while driving, because everything else is so laid back. Most my classes don’t start till at least 5 mins after they are supposed to start because the students don’t show up on time, and no one shows up early like they would be expected to in the states.

Speaking of work I have been getting more and more classes and am now up to a whole 20 hours a week and might even be bumped up to 22 depending on class scheduling. I have some group classes, some individual students and some children, I favorite are defiantly the groups and the kids, however one of my students is a 8 year old boy who has ADD, and if that wasn’t hard enough his mom doesn’t have the curriculum or the book he is working on in school so I have to do my own investigative work to find out what he has been learning in class that week and try to get a productive lesson in from what he tells me. But still, I think I’m up for the challenge.

Outside of class I still am pretty much being lazy in the daytime, which lead me to ask my dad for a gym membership for my Christmas/birthday present. There is a really nice gym a few blocks from my apartment that has two pools, a rock climbing wall, spinning, dance, and aerobic classes and of course a weight room. Hopefully I’ll find the motivation to go every day, or at least like 4 days a week. I really have no excuse because it’s not like im doing anything else with my time, other than catching up on every episode of extreme makeover home edition, Miami ink, the amazing race (so far they’ve gone through 3 seasons) throw in a few episodes of law and order and csi and you’ve got my daily schedule from about 9-5, that is if im not sleeping. I now have afternoon classes most days so that limits my nap/tv time from 9-3. I’m hoping that when I get the membership I’ll go to the gym in the morning, which will leave me with a few good hours to shower and sleep before afternoon class.

The past month has been pretty much uneventful, thus the lack of posting. My mom, bob and grandma susan came down for thanksgiving which was a lot of fun. Alejandro and I took them to a lot of places that I hadn’t gone to before, so that was fun. We went to Tonala and Talaquepaque which are full of hand made artsy things. We walked around all morning and did some shopping, then stopped for a nice lunch. On Saturday we went to tequila and took a tour of the Jose Cuervo factory, which came complete with a good amount of tequila tasting.

(grandma and bob enjoying some tequila)

Other than thanksgiving weekend everything has been pretty normal. Work, sleep, hanging out with friends. We went to a few more Chivas games, unfortunately they just lost in the semifinals, we were ridiculously close to making it to the final (which would have been played here) but were unable to pull it through. Sorry for the lack of excitement (especially if you have been religiously checking my blog-Katie, but you’ll just have to come back to gdl if you miss Mexico so much) Maybe I’ll have more exciting things to post on soon, and maybe this time It won’t take me a month to post.