Hortensia's 4th Day in Morelia

At first, when I arrived in Mexico, I completely panicked. THERE ARE MOSQUITOES!!!!
On the first day, we stayed in Hacienda, and it was this retreat place. There were lots of mosquitoes and BATS. TINY BATS. Ms. Bugarini told us that there are NO BATS, but then we saw the bats, and at dinnertime we sat with this Mexican student who said that there are no bats. But when we went into our rooms to sleep, Mollie (who slept in Ms. B's room because she was allergic to the spiral mosquito incense) came out of the room, telling us that there is a bat flying around their room. Then there was a huge dragonfly in their room. Assata killed it by throwing her slippers at it, and then the Mexican girls took the dragonfly and put it on Delphine's bed. I couldn't sleep until like 2 am California time, and wrote in my journal. I couldn't sleep because I was so afraid of mosquitoes, bats, and dead bugs. I SAW RAMBUTANS ON THE WAY TO MORELIA CITY!!!

Today, on Monday, we went to the Centro Cultural de Lenguas and took a test, had an orientation, and a tour around the city. We went to a cathedral and a lot of museums. There was this place, the morgue, (I didn't realize that until we walked into this room with a tomb in it) and it was so scary. It turns out that the walls where almost everyone leaned on, were places where they used to take intestines out of people before burying them. I was so afraid of the place, and it was so scary.

I didn't like my house at first, and my host family, but they're really nice and I feel more comfortable around the house. I STILL MISS BERKELEY!!!!!!!! I live so close to Assata and Thomas, so we're going to take the bus together everyday. The COMBIS cost like $4 (pesos), and they remind me of the "mikrolets" in Indonesia.

MORELIA is VERY much like Indonesia. The pollution, the cars, trash, little stores on the sidewalk, etc. But it is a very beautiful city and most of the people are very polite. I'm beginning to like the place. We just got back from the campaign, the PDR campaign. There were tons of people, squished and all, but at least I got to see a real campaign. Instead of watching it on TV.

I MISS BERKELEY.
I MISS BERKELEY.


I have to go, before everyone takes my seat on the couch. I also need some major help with communicating with my host family. All I say at the house is "Si" "No" and "Que?" because I'm not very good at carrying a decent conversation in Spanish. But I'm lucky because my host mother is able to translate to English if I don't understand what she says.

*HORTENSIA*

*Buat Dadda: udah dapat kameranya?