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Hola everyone!!!

Sorry it has taken me so long to post again. The woman with the electric smile is my friend Erica Walker from Colorado. The next photo, is my friends cousin with a dog, the girl didn't speak much english so I was talking to her in Spanish all night and she was talking to me in english. She goes to school at the University of Texas at Brownsville. My hat is basically a house for Liz my house mother hahaha. As you can see from my picture the whole campus of Itesm is wireless and there are animals all over. The next picture is our whole family at the dinner table. My week has been totally crazy. I have basically lived at the library all week. I got up at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday to finish my calculus homework, then my professor didnt show up for my 8:00 a.m. class. Then Wednesday night i tried to stay up all night on Wednesday to try to read El Proceso a book by Franz Kafka, unfortunately i dozed off and didn't have time to finish it. I am doing good in my other classes, I talk to my calculus teacher only in Spanish. It is kind of funny because his girlfriend studied at UW-Madison; once when he was visiting her, he tried the hottest wings at buffalo wild wings, because he thought there was no way they would be too spicy for him and he was totally out of commision the next day. Everytime i tell anyone in Mty. that I am from Wisconsin they always ask me about Brett Favre or the Packers. There is a bar that shows every steelers game and there is a Steelers fan club here. I have talked to a lot of people about this and they say that since the steelers were great in the 1970's everyone since then has followed the team, the cowboys are the other team that people like here.

I haven't really had a chance to go anywhere but Colonia Florida, which is my neighborhood. In Mexico, they use colonia to refer to a neighborhood. This makes it a lot easier to get around, if you want to go to Soriana, which is a chain of grocery stores, you tell the taxi driver, "soriana en la colonia florida." I know some of you might find this hard to believe but i can actually make my way around Mty. pretty good. Speaking of Mty. it is basically an American city, you can buy almost anything you want, there is internet all over. The whole campus is wireless, there is a lovely area outside of the library that is underneath a building so it is in the shade and there is always a nice wind. however, not everything about Mexico is so nice, the lines and paperwork needed to do basic things is really tough. The city has a very cosmopolitan feel to it, there are lots of beautiful buildings and huge companies here like Pepsi, Maytag, etc. I really want to travel though to see what the rest of mexico is like. That is all for now im going to head back home.

cuidanse,

kyle