I can't believe it's already Friday! I only have a week left! We have an exam each Friday to see how you progressed through the week and luckily, mine didn't seem very hard, even though everyone was talking about how difficult their exams were... I guess I'm also not stressed about it because my score does not matter AT ALL. What a nice feeling!
I'll have a new teacher on Monday, which is a bit sad... I really like the one I have now, but we'll see. I hope my next teacher is as good as the one I had this week.
I keep finding out all kinds of things about Sally; she and her husband have traveled all around the world--they were in India and Afghanistan in the 60's and 70's, with US governmental aid organizations, and she says that looking back on it she realizes how much of the time the US government had agendas utterly apart from what they were supposedly doing to help people. When I first met Sally, I was pretty sure that she was a conservative Connecticut up-tight Tupperware party sort of person who liked to travel on package tours... The reality is quite different! She's very liberal, and has been to so many places...She's a bit awkward socially, but she has some very interesting opinions and stories to share if you get her talking. What a surprise! She, however, is leaving tomorrow. I guess that's the thing about a school that starts a new session every Monday.
Sergio, my homestay dad, also is full of surprises, aside from being Mormon... He loves to dance (and knows all of the discos in Cuernavaca), he loves the ocean, especially when the waves are big and rough. He loves roller-coasters and extreme sports, and racket ball. Mind you, he can't be any younger than 60 and may be significantly older than that.... And he's such a sweetheart! His wife cooks comida, but he makes desayuno (breakfast) and cena (dinner) for us each day, and I've talked with him quite a bit more than with his wife.
Tomorrow I'm going to the Saturday market in the south of Mexico City, and then to Diego River's house, and Frida Kahlo's house--it's kind of an art tour with one of the professors from the St. Catherine's College program, but there were only two other girls who wanted to go, so we get the art historian all to ourselves!
Sunday is Teotihuacan, the famous pyramids in Mexico. If you're interested, google it (there's a ton of info).
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