I asked aaron yesterday if saying 'no mames' was bad to say around my host mom and apparently it is. I thought it meant like 'don't joke with me' or 'no way'. For example..."She cheated on her boyfriend..." "no mames ( Read more... )

Well before I take the bus back home ( Read more... )

After reading through very old entries I have realized just how bad my memory truly is. hah. good thing I take photos too or else I might just forget my lyyfe ( Read more... )

So tonight I had the mexican version of ABC soup and my host mom put bananas in it. It was actually good. And then I threw up. But not cause of the soup.

Fuck this lksjwioeur

So I spent about 2 hours shootin the shit with Peter on Friday talking about photography etc. I ended up asking him about an undergraduate research grant opportunity that is being offered through UNR. I would really love to do something for it. I just have no idea where I want to start as far as an idea to explore. I think it would be something ( Read more... )

I keep debating on whether or not I want to continue with spanish. In some respects it would be utterly amazing to be able to fully communicate, be able to read spanish novels, be able to just watch tv down here with out english subtitles etc, but I keep going back to what a incomprehensible thought it is to want to understand all of a language!! I ( Read more... )

Last night I might have met the most potential mexican boy for me to actually like here. It's David's best friend. Hes into film and photography and not pretentious at all about it. When I asked him to show me his photos last night I was a little disappointed. It was just like sky photographs and cityscapes. ;aslkdjwoir. I could probably deal. I ( Read more... )

Three things ( Read more... )

Ehh I'm pretty much a brown noser. In VF last semester we had to create mobiles--you know that hang from the ceiling and and have other things attached to them. Anyway, there is a cafe that Peter goes to down here called All Day. Inside there hangs a huge mobile from the ceiling and I decided to take a picture of it and email it to Gini (my VF ( Read more... )

So today I had to do a ridiculous amount of crap for my visa. I had to walk around downtown with only directions on a pencil drawn map from Peter to find a bank, a photography place, and the immigration office. I'm pretty proud of myself though for figuring it all out cause it was really confusing. but AHG in the photo place I just needed to get ( Read more... )