I really haven't been maintaining this thing...
Hello world!
Here I am going to finally describe my typical day, which is appropriate because I'm about to change families this weekend! I will definitely put some more stuff on here when i'm done packing, because i have various thoughts to share.
At around 7 I get woken up by my alarm, a soothing tone from my cell phone that suddenly becomes horrible when applied to waking purposes, make some attempts at pushups and get in the shower. After that, I get all my toiletry whatnot in order, smell nice and put on my sparkly smile and exit my room. From there, I get to breakfast, usually cereal, and get to look out the window at the sun coming up over the buildings and backyard fence.
After that, it's time for the ride to school with my host mom, who also works at the school. It's about 15 minutes, and is always nice for chating about random stuff, as descriptive as that is. I attribute a lot of my practice to these chats. We get to school at about 8, and we go our separate ways. Due to the fact that puebla is about 2000 meters up in the air, it is damn cold in the mornings. Adding to the issue, there are no heating systems in buildings. I sit in school and do the various things that there are to do in terms of schoolwork, watch videos and movies on my classmates' laptops, and write in my book of ideas and observations. My classes are: Biology, Statistics, World history (in English), Sports, Critical Thinking, Human Development, Literature, Accounting, something called Optativa where we don't do anything, and Orientation where they tell us about careers and such. Pretty cool stuff, but definitely difficult to sit there when there are places to explore.
After classes, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I stay for soccer practice, then take the two buses to my house; Wednesdays I go to check my PO box at the university, and Mondays and Fridays i usually have something to do otherwise. The trip from school to my house is about 30 minutes with two buses, and I love the time to reflect and all that. I take one from the school to the highway near my house then the bus that runs that highway, followed by a 15 minute walk to my house.
Pretty cool, right? i'm going to have some more down time in the future, so I will get to putting more of the stuff that goes on in my life here, I haven't really been very good at keeping in touch in that manner.
So, to close, I hope you are all well, thanks for reading! Chau, much love!
thanks for sharing Cullen, we love to hear what you are up to on your adventure in Mexico. Pleae tell more about the bus rides and where you have lived w/ DeLara Canedo's and now your new host family! Post pics of soccer and school and friends! xo you MOM
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