What Now?

Last night Alice arrived at the house. She’s a new student at CEPE and is staying at the house too. Finally another girl! She’s a grad student/Phd. at the University of North Carolina and seems to speak Spanish very well. She’s in level 7/8 so I didn’t see her much during classes today but I walked her to and from school today and she seems really nice. Jesse left yesterday and didn’t say goodbye to anyone. I knew he was leaving but he didn’t say goodbye. Oh well, lose one housemate get another!

I didn’t do much today. After lunch I went up on the roof and read my travel book while catching some rays. There are so many things I need to find in the city now! There are some restaurants that sounded really good and some museums I want to go to. Apparently, Guadalajara is the birth place of mariachi music and the hat dance(?) so I have to see some of that while I’m here. I want to see if I can arrange a weekend trip to Oaxaca because it sounds nice and there are ancient ruins nearby. Ancient ruins! And I also read about some rainforest in the mountains where thousands and thousands of monarch butterflies flutter around you. I think it’s really far away so I guess I will only go there in my dreams. Anybody out there have suggestions for me?

I was supposed to go to a salsa club tonight with some other CEPE people but I’m going to have to back out because I feel really sick. Like an ear infection is in my near future. It’s the same way I felt in Thailand because of the difference between the extreme heat and humidity of outside and the extreme cold of the air conditioner inside. I blame this crazy, dry mountain weather! It’s freezing at night and in the morning but it’s hot and sunny during the day. I was up on the roof when the sun went down today and I could feel the temperature difference immediately. I hope the nights aren’t always this cold. My hands are freezing! Time to crawl into bed and read some more.