Basically this has been the majority of my time since I last posted. I go to school, come home and finish my homework as quickly/well as I can, and then read Harry Potter y La Camara Secreta, play Diablo 2, or chat with people online. That will probably continue until I get more well established with this new group, which is likely to be happening very soon.
Speaking of exactly that, there is a new group here for the second six week session. This is cool, because although a few of the people in the last group were rad, most of them really just got on my nerves. This group doesn't appear to be a whole lot better, but at least there are some new people who want to speak Spanish and if I'm lucky my assumptions about them will be wrong. After the first session of school and a group comida (lunch essentially) Scott had the idea to go to the movies, I had the idea to invite a few people and the idea spread like an idea that spread really quickly... (Sorry but I've had to deal with way too many similes and metaphors in my literature class, you get no flair).
Essentially 18 of us ended up going to the movie theatre (in a comically small bus) and watched El Origen, which is Inception to you folk. The movie was absolutely phenomenal, it is definitely one of my new favorites and I highly recommend that you go see you if you haven't already. After that I just sorta taxied/walked home and did as much of my homework as I could before going to sleep. It was a grand night out and I wouldn't mind repeats in the future.
One last thing before I quite typing to go work on my substantial mountain of homework (it's not a weak or flimsy mountain, it's substantial(?)). Today, very near my school, was a crime scene that seemed to be left over from a serious deed. At first when I walked to school there were two officers watching the area and a police car with the lights on. There were also a bunch of beer bottles in the alley (both were I walk through to get to school and where the crime scene was), many of which were half or so full (optimistic crime scene). This seemed weird, but I figured that maybe there was a disturbance of a fight or something and the cops were just kinda holding down the fort. Of course they had automatic weapons over their shoulders, but that's incredibly commonplace here. The strange part was when I was walking from school the same corner for my bus home. The crime scene was now defined by 'precaucion' tape, not just an area the cops were looking at with a seriously-don't-walk-right-there expression, and there were people wearing semi-formal clothing walking around in the crime scene taking pictures and samples of the stuff on the ground as well as swabbing things with what appeared to be large Q-tips (which I believe are officially called swabs, but swabbing with swabs just seems a little too obvious). I then turned the corner, about two feet from the edge of the crime scene and 8 feet from my bus stop, and nearly ran into the same officer I saw this morning, but now with a much larger gun. I'm really not sure why that's necessary (bullets from pistols will likely kill you, an automatic weapon is probably gonna kill you, and a slightly larger automatic weapon will do the same just with a bigger mess). In nearly running into the large man with the big gun I kinda stepped back suddenly with 'what-the-hell-is-going-on' ('que-esta-pasando') written clearly in my eyes and across my forehead now filled with eyebrow. The police officer either mistook this as guilt or was just F-ing with me because for the rest of the time I was at the bus stop he would keep glancing over suspiciously as I looked at the crime scene.
That's all I've got, the most interesting stuff going on is pretty much not. I'm homesick and miss all of my friends and of course my family. I'm ready to come home and relax for a while, but Mexico has other plans with five more weeks of ridiculously difficult classes.
Love you all, please comment I need the attention,
-Connor
Hey toots,
ReplyDeleteI watched Inception two nights ago too! It was amaaaazing. I kept pinching myself when I was walking out of the theater. :) (Oh, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is dreamy! As you said.)
You are very much missed. Don't get shot by suspicious policemen!
Much love <3
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