VIVA LA MEXICO!!!!!

Viva la Mexico!!!!!
Whoop whoop!!
My very first “big” travel day started by arriving at the bus spot at 6:30 Sunday morning. After a four hour bus trip to Phoenix, Arizona, we arrived at the airport for a two hour wait. Pieter and I wandered around the halls laughing and joking, which was surprisingly relaxing. I got in my last phone call to my parents and took off on an airplane with my cast. The first flight didn’t go so well for me. Since I am currently suffering from some kind of cold, my ears really didn’t appreciate the difference in altitude. I thought my head was going to explode!!! Thankfully, that flight was only about an hour. Our layover was quick…and back on the plane we went. This time the flight was around 2 hours and very enjoyable. Our plane landed and 80 well dressed, tired, and hungry students stepped into the Mexican air. We picked up our suitcases and headed towards the giant “VIVA LA GENTE” sign! The A-team had made us sack dinners, which were the best and only real food eaten all day!!! J Then, onto a bus…it was already 11:30 at night! So, as everyone is now wound up and spastic, we all load onto buses and headed out of Mexico City. Knowing that there is a seven hour bus ride ahead does not leave people in a state of slumber. The first hour of the ride, the bus was buzzing. Stories were shared and laughter was created. Our first stop was for a restroom break. It was extremely scary and I was very close to shedding a tear or two. I had to pay two pesos to get into the bathroom and it was like a jail under attack. Metal bars all over. And at three in the morning, it’s even scarier than normal. We hoped back on the bus for a little while, like 4 hours, and we arrived in LEON! We drug our behinds into a huge room in which we had no idea where we were, grabbed some chair covers and fell asleep on the floor. Nice, right? J We had a loooong time to sleep and get ourselves cleaned up and ready for the day. News cameras are always everywhere around us, which makes us all conscious of what is going on around us. My host family is wonderful. They don’t speak much English and my roommate doesn’t speak much Spanish. But we communicate okay. I have eaten a lot of beans. J And tortillas. They live on a ranch, so Melissa and I get woken up by roosters every morning. There are many things different here. The showers are waaay different in the fact that it is made out of stones, no bathtub. But I’m still alive!
I send my love.
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