First Week of School

Since my last post I feel like so many amazing things have happened! Sunday morning I went to church with the family I am staying with, and it was such an amazing experience. I had no idea what was going on, but I could tell that the people in attendance were filled with the Holy Spirit. It was so inspiring. That afternoon I met Enrique's girlfriend Ave and they both offered to take me on a tour of downtown Campeche. They were amazing tour guides in telling me the history of Campeche and the significance of the historic monuments around the city. They treated me to a fruit juice from a fruit native to Campeche (I forget the name of it...) but is was so delicious! It was a perfect afternoon!

Monday marked our first day at the University. The five of us showed up and met Pepe who is the director of the international students at the university and as he said it, will be our father while we're here. He took us on a tour of the campus and explained how the classes will work, how we can get involved in the school, and how and where we should travel on our weekends and time off.

The rest of the week at school was interesting, confusing, and amazing. The 5 of us are in 4 classes; gramatica (grammer), lectura y redaccion (reading and writing), vocabulario y conversacion (vocabulary and conversation), and historia y cultura (history and culture). Three out of the four professors are really good at speaking slowing and clearly for us, but one of the professors talks so fast and uses big words that we haven't learned yet. Here's a picture of one of our projects in his class - we have no idea if this was what he asked for or not!

This experience has been so different already from my other Latin American travels. I realised yesterday morning as I was taking the bus to school alone that I was in fact, living in Mexico. Tourists don't buy cell-phones, take the bus to and from school, scope out where the best place to work out is (and be recruited for University sports teams without even trying out!), unpack clothes in a dresser, etc. This is different, this will be different, but this will be great!

The rest of my time this week outside of school has been spent exploring Campeche, spending time with the family I'm living with, practicing my Spanish by watching TV, movies, engaging in conversation and looking through my text books, and of course, having siestas! Converastion is getting easier, but is still so hard. Here's some pictures of Campeche, and our adventures!


The Malecon...

 The lobby of our school...

Our school...

Streets of Campeche...