I'm sorry, this blog is just awful

No really, I now have nighttime internets and I will use it to make up for my sad excuse for a blog up until now, with a super super MEGAPOST. You will be SHOCKED BY THE MEGAPOST.
I am living now at La Ceiba Grafica for a week, where I can do art and print on a press to my heart's content.
My bedroom is absolutely awesome. There seems to be a group of highschoolers living here with me. BUT FIRST THINGS FIRST.

Let me introduce you to the SECOND most hilarious picture I've ever taken:

THEY WANT OUT. It was actually a really unnerving situation. I'm so glad they weren't animatronic.

I went to Guatemala last week with my Canadian friend, Fay.

But beforehand, we stopped in San Crisotbal, Chiapas, Mexico. Which was my favorite part because it was before the TERRIBLE SICKNESS. I think the culprit of this spout of vicious Montezuma's Revenge was a salad in Tapachula. Note: before the Guatemalan border. I didn't get to eat ANY Guatemalan tasties thanks to the TERRIBLE SICKNESS. Even so, you wouldnt believe how beautiful everything was there. But I'm getting ahead of myself. We haven't even gotten past the scary escape babies.

CHURCHES I SEEN in SAN CRISTOBAL:




GUATEMALA:

This is what I'm talking about when i say Guatemala was beautiful. It looked like that all the time too. Volcanoes, lake, boats.


And little Mayan kids playing in the water, which was beautiful and clean and wonderful and the perfect temperature.


I went swimming here.


Easter parade. That's Jesus in a coffin, there were other floats of crying Mother Marys.


Cows in someone's yard.


Semana Santa church rotten banana decorations in Santiago, Atitlan.


On a boat going across the lake. It took like 20 minutes to cross, going FAST.


The ferry boat captain let us sit on the top of the ferry. AWESOME.



A hat i probably should have bought.

THINGS YOU MISSED BECAUSE I WAS LAZY:


Rene II's birthday party, he's 40. We ate consome de mariscos with entire shrimps and fish vertebras in it. REALLY GOOD. I don't like flan, ends up. Jellophobia.


This picture is just adorable. Michelle's bday, month ago.


My first Mexican wedding. There was a spiderman pinata for boys, for girls, then a giant one with balloons full of money in it. I got hit with some delicious chocolates and drank SIX tiny beers. SIXXXXX beers. I went with the fam and Fay. It was awesome. I love tamales.


Odet. She is my favorite person I've met at the Faculdades de Artes Plasticas she is the nicest ever. EVER.


The most beautiful park in the world with the biggest fish. If I ever actually go running I'm doin it there.


I am still fascinated by the powerline moss, too.


This was the beginning of ziplining. That tree is really tall, I dunno if you can tell but it is like SO tall.


Melissa ziplining.


these are the borreadors, or something like that. They were around Tajin, you gotta train from a little kid to spin upside down for that long. We saw little kid training poles and they were still SO SCARY. A guy dances on the top before they spin, he actually jumps and spins around and beats a drum WHILE playing a flute. You wonder if they ever fall, right?


Climbin' up.


Comin' down.


These are my terrible legs. But now they're good, sorta sunburned but good.


Tajin.


This was a really magical tree. With magical lights and magical swings.



MAN WITH SCARY MONKEY PUPPET. This thing was the coolest thing I ever seen. It was made out of coconuts and wood and wire and looked around and moved EVERYTHING. SCARY. Dad you would have liked it so good.

Black flies black flies black flies.

They are terrible. TERRIBLE. I haven´t really slept in two nights, for the }itchin´. I´ll post a picture of my legs later but you won´t like it.
I´m going to Tajin this weekend for this wonderful (i think) festival at the ruins there. We´re staying in a bungalo. Today´s st. patty´s which also happens down here. I think the pinching thing is just a mean US thing though. Also our soccer team is playing some other soccer team and it´s a big deal. Also no school tomorrow so everyone is headin to the bars fo da game.
it´s colder n balls here. Since nowhere has climate control inside just means dry. It rains all the time.
And everythings starts comically late. And no one every hurries because of this. In general, life is less stressful. Everyone has a get-it-done-eventually attitude and things really do get done eventually. It´s sort of unheard of to be in such a rush you can´t stop and talk for a minute. There are only like twenty songs on the radio, and the gas trucks play two more, and the mariachis play like ten more, and the tomale carts have one too. I´m hoping to learn them all it seems doable. I´m learning over the rainbow in spanish on guitar right now. But my next song I think will be beatles in spanish, i get to pick. Exited!
Making more friends all the time, trying to get less awful at spanish. Getting there. Ah! i have class. love,
ellis

It´s MARCH! MARCH! MARCH!

Time flies when you can´t understand half the shit going on! And by that I mean sorry I haven´t updated everything is good down here. I´m much better in spanish nowadays, but I have a lot of trouble paying attention to people. I still have to put most things into english in my head, which is sort of draining. Thus all the coffee, which is delicious down here.
I´ve been to two mexican birthdays and a wedding and so far i think they do it better, no offense. Everyone is just more welcoming it feels great. Same in school, everyone talks to everyone and kisses everyone. But it makes the exchange students seem less nice. It´s sort of awful to walk from one school to the other.
I´m really diggin the music down here, also. Theres really fantastic duets in restaurants all the time, and I walk past like five giant marimba and saxaphone bands on my way to school. They all have really awful guys with sticks and gourds chasing you down for pesos for the band. One of them is like cross the street to get away creepy. Big ol´ grin.
My family is cool as hell but a girl from lithography says I can live with her for no joke like US $70 a month. I need to figure my shit out but I think I would have a better time there. We´ll see, I don´t want to screw over the Mirandas because they´re so so so so awesome.
I have a two week vacation coming up in two weeks and I don´t know what I´m doing yet ahhh! I think I want to live at this printmaking museum mansion collective place that makes their own paper and printing presses out of WOOD no joke. It´s in coatepec so not that far from here. Vamos a ver. But maybe there are other more worthy things that I can´t imagine right now. I haven´t gone to the beach yet, is a problem.
Sorry for the delay I will be better in the futures. I hope you all are doing fantastically.

Ridin´ on the cognates.

I'm not sick anymore!






this is when i snuck into a field trip for a free museum ticket.

most bizarre house party i've ever been to. no one really danced, except with this one mop.







plaza xalatic, right by my house

this is the most hilarious picture i've ever taken.

!Fotos!

from the airplane, cheap shot i know. somehow i neglected to photograph the giant floating whitecaps of the Mexico City montanas.




Rene and the wish balloon


rock pets


mis hermanitos


check daniel in the corner, that kid is off the wall he only eats sweets


nawwww. Rene and Daniel, they're cousins.


jaranas! i wan one!

live band music but I don't know what the smiley guy was supposed to be doing






muscly shirt parade men, one had a giant chile

check the size of the beers here, there were some seriously sloshed hombres.

lindsey and her corn

Michelle and her corn



i don't know what she was doing in the parade

these are some dudes saving the 7 pesos it costs to go to the bathroom and not in the gulf o' mexico


mariposa en me camisa




he asked me to kiss his cheek and i got silver paint ALL up ons hair face back bleck. but the girl after me maked out with im.



fay and the scary genie


this girl was all alone in the parade and she just bent over like that every so often and everyone cheered