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Hello family and assorted friends who read this. I am just sitting down to watch a movie I've already seen with a friend who hasn't seen it. Garden State. If you haven't seen it, you should.

Anyway, I have some free time so I thought I would write you a little blog about my trip to Mexico. Holy crap! It was so much fun!!! I am not on my computer so I can't upload pictures at this point but I will try to later. I did so much, I saw so much, I met so many new people, I had a great time!!!!! While in Mexico we lived with a family in a city called Cuernavaca, meaning "eternal spring." Little did we know that normally it is about 75 degrees and sunny every day, except in May! Luckily, we hit their hottest month. This year it looks like I get to live thru July TWICE! Notice how this is just awesome! The best part was when I was told to dress more conservatively, no shorts, so I wore jeans... it was frickin' 100 degrees that day and we climbed down to the bottom of this revine... I just about died! Oh lord was it hot! Lets just say I wore shorts from the on. What we did was climb down this revine, 290 stairs to be exact, to see how the poorest of poor live. It was so sad. 70 percent of Mexico's population is poor and of those 70, 45 percent don't know where their next meal is coming from. (LOOK! I learned something!!) Anyway... super sad.

I also got the chance to eat my nasty ass lunch on top of not one, but TWO pyramids while in Mexico. It was amazing! The first one I had to climb a fricking mountain to get to and then the next one I just had to climb up the pyramid itself. It was so cool. As much asd we bitched about it while we were climbing... both were pretty cool. I have lots of pictures. Just let me know if you want to see them. I'd be MORE than happy to go thru them and remember all the good times we had in Mexico. Oh man... Mexico was a blast!

We also got to eat at two authentic Mexican restaurants that were awesome! However, the family we lived with had algo con queso (something with cheese) for every meal! They were sort of nazi like tho. Didn't really like us a whole lot I don't think. They really didn't like one of my roommates Michelle. They yelled at her all the time. And when we weren't eating... they weren't around at all! There were so many rooms in the house that we never saw. We also discovered that there was a whole other building to their house that we didn't know about til the last week we were there. They were odd! Everyone else had a kick ass house with awesome parents... we had a nice, old house with parents that hated us! ARGH! Owell... I wont ever see them again... hopefully!

The night life in Mexico is so much fun! All the little bars and cafes. Acutally had quite an interesting conversation with a professor from Texas A & M in one of the bars. We were talking about his family and his grown children and then my future in which he told me, "Oh don't worry, your beautiful and intelligent, you'll do fine." Hmm... sounds like a bad pick up line. Anyway... that was the night we went out for Kelan's birthday... let's just say he didn't remember much and when he got his camera back from me the next morning he was a little suprised! I took so many random pictures. Hehe! Mateo his roommate had a lot of fun with him that night and then again the next morning. Kelan was apparently in my econ class the whole semester and I didn't even know him when we got on the plane together in Chicago. I would say we are decent friends now. Mateo and I spent a lot of time together and had a blast. I knew him before we left and we were decent friends, but I would say we are good friends. now. He's going to be an RA on the second floor of Hebron next year. I told him I was going to come mess with his freshmen. HEHE! I totally would too! I am already planning ways to mess with their minds during orientation. I'm so excited I get to go back to the 'Burg in 2 weeks for a summer orientation thinger. AHH!!! I miss school so much!!!


Anyway, that is a brief overview of Mexico. Just let me know if you havge questions or want to hear more! I HEART MEXICO! Everything was so cool! I never thought I'd get to see and do all those things. Anyway...

Now that I am back, I've been working out at the course and at HyVee just like last summer. I also got called to Jury duty this week and wouldn't you know it... I got selected to a jury. It was an OWI case that the defendant was trying to get out of. As the foreperson, I was the one who got to sign the verdict making him guilty as charged. Sweet! I'm on record now! Hell yes!!! I guess it was a good way to serve my civic duty. The odd thing was that 8 of 12 jurrors were between the ages of 18 and 22. One of the kids graduated a year ahead of me from J-Town and another girl was a childhood friend. How odd! The only older woman was a substitute teacher in Ankeny and she knew my new friend Nate who I also spent a lot of time with in Mexico. Good times.

As I've started to get back into the swing of things here, I've realized that so much of my life is already in Wave-Town. I miss school so much! I miss all my friends and the easy access of having them live in the same building as me. So much easier than having to call them every time I want to talk. Went out for a girls dinner a week ago. That was fun... all of us have changed so much but yet we still have that one common bond, we spent so much time together growing up and in high school. Since I've been here... I've spent a lot of time with my friends Steven and DeHamer. Never talked to D in HS and now I talk to him all the time. Good kid... like him a lot. The three of us... we pretty much stay out of any form of trouble... they are good for me... keep me sane and make me crazy all at the same time. But, you know me, I get along so much better with boys... this is good for me! I miss the wife... seeing her every day... I've seen her once since I've been home. It was good. And we call eachother just about every day. But it still isn't the same without living by her. BUT... in less than 3 months we get to live together in the same room! HELL YES! So excited... but more on that later.

Well... this is the end... I will try to get some pictures on here later. Thanks kids!! And have a wonderful day!

the bloned