i´m sad to report that i´ve had one of those days.

the kind where everything goes wrong? yeah. it´s important to note, however, that this is definitely the first time that´s happened since getting to mexico.

it started with lots of homework way too early this morning and moved on to the discovery of $120 (US) missing from my possession. that ... kind of sucks.

it continued to involve a bus that stopped working and then being herded onto a different bus. that busride was 45 minutes longer than necessary and took us way out of our way - out to the farthest outskirts of puebla. after i asked our bus driver if we were ever going to get back to the main bus station, he was kind enough to flag down another bus for us to get back. i´m thinking we probably weren´t in the safest neighborhood for just getting off and getting our own bus, so that was super nice of him.

i had to give a presentation on the lady of guadalupe for sally´s class this afternoon and i didn´t finish it until about 20 minutes before i had to present. the long busride didn´t make this any less stressful. i almost had to interview some random person on the long busride because i needed more opiniones to talk about. but i wasn´t sure if that was rude or socially acceptable, so i didn´t. oy vey.

i also stepped in gum twice.


however: tomorrow at 8:50 pm, the spring break adventure to puerto escondido begins! i´m going with 5 valpo girls (krista, amanda, mel, kelly, & leah) and 2 minnesota guys (sam & dan). our busride is 15 hours (let´s be honest, it will probably be more like 16 or 17, if it´s anything like transportation in the states), so we won´t get to puerto until noon or later on saturday. we´re staying in a private bed & breakfast with two bedroomss, so we have the whole place to ourselves! i´m super excited because it has a hammock area and an outside barbecue, so we can grill fish and pineapple and whatever else we want all week long. hoorah!


the babies were fun this week, but pretty fussy. i think they basically all had colds, which explains the crabbiness. miguel slept most of the time and when he was awake, just cried and cried and cried. victor was super huggy and leo was the most content baby i´d ever seen, until poleta felt the need to fall over on top of him & knock him over, causing him to cry too. HOWEVER. poleta took her first steps while i was there! (i´m assuming...) she had only been walking around while holding on to me before, but i let go for a second and she walked to me all by herself! pretty much it was really exciting, except i felt bad because i was the only one there & i feel like maybe i should´ve gotten more excited for a milestone like that?

yesterday we all went out to celebrate amanda´s birthday at ice + grill (mongolian barbecue restaurant up the street) and then to bambuko´s for drinks (also up the street, just in the other direction). i realized it´s probably a good thing my birthday´s not while i´m down here, because we wouldn´t be able to fit everyone in the lebanese restaurant!

also: i get to eat curries AND cajun food this week! and there´s a store in puerto that sells havaianas, so i can buy some new sandals.

i bought a dress earlier this week. it´s gorgeous and was only about 25 dollars. we´re friends with the shop owner -- his name´s oscar and his shop´s right around the corner from the cholula house, so we stop to chat with him pretty frequently. we´re going to have to find a place to go where (somewhat) formal dress is required while we´re on the coast!

so that´s it. pacific coast, here i come!!!