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.