My first day of school!!!

Ok, I didn´t write this because I was busy studying and watching Harry Potter. Oh my god, I never thought it would happen to me. We have pirated movies 1-5. I don´t know if I mentioned this, but we buy pirated movies in Mexico for like $1 or $1.50, instead of the $20 you´d pay in a real store. The quality is usually just fine, sometimes it freezes up in a stop, but then starts again. We even have Twilight. You see all the movies in theatres for sale here already.

Ok, so school. I am the only student, since I signed up for the individual class because I didn´t want to commit to 6 hours a day, for 4 weeks. That was too much. So I come in 9-12 everyday.

So I get there a little before 8:30 because I have to take a placement test. Oh man, I end up getting 5 out of 20 right. And then, I have to write a paragraph. I have two choices of topic, I choose have you studies Spanish before, where, when, how long, why do you want to learn now. I write a whopping 3 sentences saying something like "I study in school for 2 years. I live with my family in Puebla. I study there. I have a friend from Argentina, we study little."

So, in class I learn how to say I am, so I ramble off things like "I am short, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, I am an ecologist, I am American, etc." and then I talk about people I know and say the same things about them.

After class, I went over to the Zocalo and read Harry Potter in the sun and ate my sandwiches that Areli packed me for lunch.

Then, I walked back towards the school, because I had about 40 minutes before I got picked up, and I wanted to check out the coffee shop across the steet. I went in the little place, and it is really really nice. A nice old looking glass bar, little tables and chairs, its jst a pretty cool place. I got a menu and ordered a cappucuino frio con vanilla. (It didn´t come with vanilla, I asked it on my own, I felt like I really accomplished something). This drink she brought me was a pure masterpiece. Oh my god, I don´t think I will ever have anything as good as that. It was thick and frothy with whipped cream and cinnamon on top, I was trying to save it so long so that it wouldn´t end that after at least 20 minutes of sitting there I had to drink down a quarter of it because Areli was going to be there soon. It cost like $2.40. I´m going back everyday. I felt bad too, because I was the only person to come in the whole time I was there. But, I mean it must get business sometime, because it looks like it has been there a while.

After that awesome coffee, I went outside to stand on the street so Areli could see me. And some guy is like "Ella! Ella!" and I´m like, "oh, god, this guy wants to sell me something, and I can´t talk." But no, it was hilarious. This guy looked really rough, wearing a bandana, and just starts talking, and realizes I don´t understand and switches to English. And he is saying he spends a lot of time in America, and his English isn´t so good, so he talks in English, me in Spanish. He tried to teach me how to roll my rr´s, I try and help him with his "th" sounds. Thenhe teaches me some words, says goodbye, and wanders off down the street. It was pretty funny to talk to him. Areli showed up a few minutes later.

Areli and I went to get the boys from school. It is like super security lockdown there, wow. When we drop them off, someone comes up and opens the door, and they watch the kids go into the gates. Then, to pick them up, you have to go into the school and find them, and there are guards at all the exits so that no kids can leave without someone. Lex forgot his lunchbox, so we pulled up to the door and he ran in, and they wouldn´t let him out even though we were in the car right there, we had to go talk to the guard.

I got home and did all my homework for a few days, because it is all stuff I know. I hope I don´t get in trouble, but come on, if I know it already, lets get to the good stuff.

Tonight Areli, Mariana, and I are going out drinking.