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