Day 3 (as promised)- First Day of Classes

Remember my first day here how sad I was and how miserable I described it? It's much better now. Thanks for all of the prayers and for thinking about me while I'm gone. I have the best friends/family ever. Things have gotten so much better!

Though it's currently Tuesday, this post is about Monday-my first day of class! I am taking 4 classes while I'm here, which is sort of alot but they are only an hour each, which makes it better:

Gramatica, conversacion, literatura, y historia

I like all of my professors...well almost all. Ha...

My grammar teacher, Martin, rocks. He's hysterical and is actually making el subjunctivo (this really difficult grammar lesson that is imperative for Spanish but doesn't exist in the English language) kinda fun!

My conversation teacher, the only female (professora) that I have, is really awesome too! She is very animated and makes us speak in class so i think it'll definitely give me confidence!

My literature teacher is also really great. He is very passionate about the subject, which makes it more interesting. All of the authors we will be covering over the month are ones that I have studied in my classes back home in the university. I'm really excited about learning more about them though!

And lastly...Ignacio. My history teacher...oh Ignacio. Well, A of all, he has a sweet beard and is as thin as a pencil. B of all, he mumbles like crazy and therefore I (along with the rest of the class) cannot understand much of what her says!!! C of all...it's history, which is boring anyways. But alas, I'll push through it. I usually just laugh whenever he laughs. That seems to work pretty well.

So those are my teachers/classes. I have school from 9-1 (monday and friday) and til 2 on tues, wed, thurs for museum visits and Mexican culture class. and then i go home for lunch at 3!!! (this late lunch is killing me...not something I wanna get used to!)

Things with my host home are great stilL! I've seen alot more of the girls who live above me. They are nice and we are able to practice our Spanish together. Kelsey, the girl from Louisville who lives above me, has class at the same time as me and we walk to La Universidad de Guanajuato together. That's about it for day 3 in the city. I'm planning on staying in the house tonight to rest, read, do homework, ans skype with some friends, so I'll most likely update tonight as well about Day 4( today- tuesday).

P.S i tried to post some pictures, but im not sure if it's working..i'll try again later i suppose...

Love and Tortillas--which i had for lunch :),

Amy

Day 3- Preview

Hola!! It's 11:30 and I should be getting to bed so I'm only updating to say: stay tuned for tomorrow when I will tell y'all about my first day of classes and more! It's currently raining, which means i will sleep well. Why you ask? When it rains at night, the men who love to play guitar and sing late into the night in my neighborhood and keep me up...can't! So I will fall asleep to the rain rather than la musica mexicana.

I'll update tomorrow when I have time! I have pictures to share as well so check back later!

Love and Tortillas,

Amy

Day 2( technically day 1 in the city)

Well. I made it safe and sound....well.. not necessarily sound. I'm going to be honest. This isn't fun. I imagined my first post in this great city to be about how amazing everything is and how I never want to come home and how I am overjoyed to be here...it's pretty much opposite. And I almost wanted to lie and say that it was great so I could have a cool adventure. But here I am confessing that I'm A of all: a big baby who apparently isn't as independent as she thought, B of all: THAT girl that misses her boyfriend after only being gone one day (I guess I really like this kid).

I don't know why I thought I was more independent than I really am. I'm actually really insecure on my own and need people around me to support me and encourage me. I can't do this on my own! (and thank the Lord for that cause you know i'd mess it up if i tried). But I need way more than just the help of friends- I need the Lord to give me strength to be brave in a new situation and find the good in things. I so often forget about Him. Because I am so often consumed with other things that I place above Him. Encouragement from people close to me is great, but I can't rely fully on them to tell me to snap out of it and get a grip. The Lord reminds me that all the time- I just tend to push Him aside.

Whew. Breathe amy. There. That was my complaint/rant from day 1. It was hard. I cried, not gonna lie. But...I'm alive. And i haven't thrown up. And I haven't gotten on a plane to come home(tempting). I can do this. The Lord can help me do this.

Currently I am sitting in a yellow towel on my bed waiting for the shower to get warm. Though it probably never will. Mi mama just keeps saying "Yo no se...quizas esta roto?" (I don't know...maybe it's broken?). Ha. So we'll see if i get a shower tonight.

Now, let's here some positives:

-My host mom is the sweetest, though she doesn't speak a lick of English
-I ate a really really weird meat tonight( and y'all know how I am about meat) and didn't puke.
-I toured the city (in the rain..) and got a really good intro to what life is like here.
-sat in on a quincenera while we were waiting for the rain to pass. ha. I was the only one there who didn't cross my chest and face in a catholic manner.
- the shower eventually got warm by the way-such a blessing.
-I ended the night by reading "To Kill a Mocking Bird". My house mom brought me tea por mi estomago. She said it would make me feel better :)
-I talked with Allysha the director about my lonesome-ness and we are meeting tomorrow to try and work something out.

Today ended well. It was a rough start but God is getting me through it. Prayers would be greatly appreciated!! Tomorrow (sunday) we have a free day and then we start classes monday morning!

Love and Tortillas, (Ruth Minor- the ever so sweet positive influence in my life told me that tortillas is less offensive, and probablly more true, than tequila.)

Amy

Day 1- Packing

Destination: Guanajuato, Mexico
Intended Goal: Become a Spanish genius and experience life
Plan: Speak the language, get good grades, have FUN, make memories, not wanna come home......but first off..PACK!!

I am beginning my study abroad experience in Guanajuato today by packing. I leave in 4 days for a great adventure in Mexico, but I gotta get myself packed up first! Over the course of the month I'm gonna do better about updating. Hopefully I can become such a faithful blogger that I can write around 3-4 times a week (let's keep our fingers crossed). This all depends on the amount of free time I have, my internet connection, and whether or not I actually have cool things to say (let's be honest though, I'll be in Mexico for a month being carefree and spontaneous- there's bound to be something good).

Hasta luego mis amigos!

Disclaimer- I will be using some Spanish on here throughout the course of the month- I'll try to be considerate of those that don't speak it, but no promises! I guess if you wanna know about my life, learn Spanish. Jokes.


Love and tequila,

(i couldn't think of how I wanted to sign these for my time in Mexico and all that came to mind was tequila. So I'm using it- though most likely not drinking it. Don't worry baptists/moms/anyone else who might judge me for that statement.)

Amy

New addiction:

Well it is spring break.

And I am in Memphis at home. Which means lots of free time (unfortunately boring free time). Later in the week I will have more going on but it's only Saturday night, and my spring break started...yesterday... So there isn't much going on yet.

As i await the arrival of my long desired Felicity season 3 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I get my show fix by watching "My life as Liz"

EVERYONE should watch this. It takes a while til you warm up to it, but it's good. So funny and so highschool. The girl in it is a mix between Haley Williams (of Paramore), Juno, and the coolest person you know- whoever that may be.

Charlotte, I feel like you would like this for some reason. Check it out, or don't. It's whatever.

Gotta love friends

I have the best college friends ever. Let that be said first off. Now that we are all juniors, things are changing, people are growing up, making plans, going places. You know how it goes. Well this past fall was actually the last semester we would all have together before a of all) Kimberlee goes to Washington DC for the semester (our own little city girl journalist) and b of all) ALLI GETS ENGAGED. yea. a big deal.

So how did we celebrate? Oh you know, just a little best friend photoshoot. Check them out!




















Katie is the tallest brunette, Alli is the tallest blonde, Ruth is the middle brunette, India middle blonde, I am the shortest brunette, and Kimberlee is the tallest blonde.

We are friends.
The end.

Business in the front

Chartown. This is for you.




Business bump. A classic. A sheek eye-catching hairstyle. The only way to go to make a A+ first impression with the profs on the first day of classes.


You taught me how.

Party in the back (commonly known as party poof) will be debuting sometime this weeked most likely.