Happy Procrastinatingness!
*Sigh* I feel so much better after having vented in my last blog. I'm really AM excited for Mexico, and even though I'll be the loser that hangs out with my host family and goes to church and museums instead of going out drinking every night, that will just be something that I get to remember that they don't. Hmpgh. I don't know how much I've talked about it, (probably a lot) but I'm going to tell more:
- Cuernavaca in Spanish means "cow horn" but that's just because the Spaniards butchered the indigenous name for the city, meaning "City of Eternal Spring" *long happy sigh*.
- Cuernavaca has a beautiful Cathedral as well as the Palace of Cortes (the ACTUAL Cortes! :O), which has lots of pre-hispanic artifacts and colonial pieces to look at.
- And on the first weekend, I get to go climb the pyramid(s) of Teotihuacan, an Aztec*** ruin that was once the size of ancient Athens or Rome. hm. I should be a tour guide when I grow up!
***- everyone should read Elizabeth's comments in the, well, comments- they are quite enlightening, and I am quite wrong. lol.
I must also remember that I will be studying most of the time, but it will still be exciting!!! I'm living with 3 other girls, so it will be pretty easy to be safe and have a walking buddy to and from class (and salsa dancing!) Ooh! I should see if they have a dance studio or something.... alright, well, enough procrastinating... maybe.... I'll blog again shortly.
posted by Alex at 10:10 AM
2 Comments:
i remember mr. v talking about climbing technocticlan in 8th grade. that was a good story - it sounds tricky. good luck to you and all the latin lovers you will meet! ps - thanks for the card. it made me smile, she does kind of look like me (wierd). i'll miss you while you are abroad. i get to work at the shanty AAAALLLL summer. yay...
Oh my god, elizabeth's talking crazy again. She just goes off about random things and no one ever really knows what she's talking about, but that's why she's cool. I'm so excited that you're going to Mexico. I want to come visit, but since may is free, I won't have any money(joke from last summer that shows how the U doesn't honor May session students who need money for food and rent). I'm almost writing a blog on here. Anyway, have fun, and I'll see you for sure during Cabaret!
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