El Mundo Real...

I have come to realize that in my attempts to escape the real world, that I find myself right smack in the middle of it. I wake up every morning (EARLY like 5:30 am early) and go to work and I have to budget time and money and friends. I have a pretty consistent schedule. Then I come home, eat dinner if I feel like cooking and go to bed to start it all over again. So boring right? And guess what? I work in an office! I live for the weekends. Why I wanted to leave school in four years in beyond me. I really should have stuck to the five year plan at Georgetown. Just joking....well kinda...

So I am "working" for about 12 hours a day but only getting paid for about 6 of those hours. The rest of the time is spent on the bust traveling from one office to another. Last week I picked up about twenty hours teaching business people at HP and I work at two different sights that happen to be directly across the city from where I live. Not to mention the buses just got about 3 times more crowded this week because school started back. Who would have thought that such a simple thing as kids going back to school would cause such a dramatic change in traffic. It now takes me about 20-30 longer to get where I need to go especially in the afternoons driving up my commute time to 1 hour or more. The shear number of children in this city is a bit disconcerting. I still haven't gotten used to it. But I supposed they all have to go to school right?

And let me just say: making pesos sucks. Mexico all of the sudden got a whole lot more expensive. Saving money in this country means eating peanut butter and jelly often. When my boss tod me I would be making about as much as a doctor, he forget to mention that doctors don't make any money here. I met one and she told me. LOL. BUT, I did discover the market the other day. It's really cool and so much better than the grocery stores (well I should say grocery STORE as I have only seen one kind, Super Gigante). They have all this stuff and people yell at you to come to their stands to buy fruit or meat or whatever you like. I have seen more than enough cow tongues to last me for a good long while.

What else...I went to my first capoeira class yesterday. I really liked it and was doing one handed cartwheels on the first day. The people seem really nice too and the teacher is cool. I think I am going to join the gym where it is at too. It is a little expensive but is the only place so far that I have found that has working treadmills and weights that don't smell like rusty sweat.

All in all though, I am having a blast in Mexico and if everyting didn't take 10 years to get done, I may even be able to see myself living here for a while. And aside from making pesos too.

Well send me love...I'll try to take some more pictures and put them up too.