Been really busy lately……My schedule consists of getting up, going to school, going to work, doing homework, sleep. I eat somewhere in there, don’t worry! :P
So, the other day I got one of the best compliments of my life…the Kristin glorifying went a little like this….jajaj……
I work for a company that is using some of the office space of a different company. They both happen to be friends. One of the owner’s of the other company works in the conference room, where the other intern and I futz around on the internet…..so, I work with this guy that I don’t really work with….jajaj…anyways this guy usually gets done at the same time as me so he takes me home, because I live kinda far away…..
Obviously, we listen to his music on the way home… but sometimes it’s bad….:P the other day he had been playing songs that described how he was feeling, which was depressed, so I played him songs that I had that gave him advice….great fun…..so I suggested that we listen to my music on the way home last night. He agreed….he really liked my music, so he asked if I wouldn’t mind going to a place where we could just park the car and listen to music. I had nothing to do, so off we went.
I had been playing all of my awesome techno music when he decided to browse through my iPod. He got to my “Spanish music playlist” so I played one of my favorite songs….i started singing away like I usually do and he had this strange look on his face. It looked as if he was perplexed or he was thinking super hard. After I stopped singing because of his facial expressions he turned down the music and gave me one of the best compliments ever. He said, “The other day when you were singing a song in Spanish I wasn’t sure if it was you that I was hearing, but now that I hear you now I have to tell you that you sing as if a Mexican were singing.” He couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that I was able to sing like that. I told him I was very good at mimicking people when I sang. So I then sang a song in Finnish, Farsi, Russian, and Chinese. Since he speaks 5 languages and has a good grasp hearing the differences between sounds and such……he was very impressed with my very useless skill.
So now all I have to do is learn how to speak Spanish like a native. I can’t just go around singing random tidbits of songs and weave them into conversations…..okay, I could….and have…..but that’s not the point of being here!
So Carnaval started today….it’s going to be 6 days of pure craziness! Unlike most things in Mazatlan, Carnaval is actually like a 5 minute walk from where I live!!!!! I’m pretty excited. Don’t expect a post in a while…but I definitely tell you how it went ….and there will probably be pictures!!!!!! W00t w00t!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
V-Day
so last night i witnessed one of the most romantic things ever....i tagged along with a couple of guys who went to some girls house to serenade her!
it all started at 10:30pm when i was picked up at my house by delfin 4. from there we assembled our all-star serenaders...all of whom had studied/are studying to be priests!!!!! i just couldn't help myself think about how well these guys would get along with lutherans.......seeing as i've been around my fair share of seminary students/graduates....*cough, cough* padre *cough, cough*
we drove to a little, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, town about 20 minutes outside of mazatlan. after getting lost twice, we finally arrived at our destination. we met up with another girl at her house so that the guys could practice their guitar and singing skills before actually having to impress someone.
we then walked to the girls house. we (well, the others......although i very obligingly observed) sang for about 30 minutes right outside of her bedroom window.....no signs of life. we finally moved to the front of the house where she finally emerged. quite out of it...!
the enamored boy then gave the girl a card and a little gift wrapped up in the cutest box imagine able. the rest of us went around the corner of the house so that they could have some privacy...well, as much privacy as we could before we couldn't help but shout out KISS HER! KISS HER!!!!!
ugghhh.....it was soooooo romantic!!!! american boys should learn how to do this. :P
as we all know, tomorrow is valentine's day. here is mexico valentine's day is to celebrate both love and friendship. compared to my experiences of valentine's day in the states, they take it way more seriously here! you cannot escape it!
at school they played "here comes the bride" over and over again during the valentine's day "bazaar/fair"! i later found out it was because you could actually get "married"! they had like the whole altar thingy set up and the girls even got to wear veils!!!!
all of us international students had a good laugh over this....
side note: carnaval is less than a week away!!!!!!! i'm so excited!!!!
it all started at 10:30pm when i was picked up at my house by delfin 4. from there we assembled our all-star serenaders...all of whom had studied/are studying to be priests!!!!! i just couldn't help myself think about how well these guys would get along with lutherans.......seeing as i've been around my fair share of seminary students/graduates....*cough, cough* padre *cough, cough*
we drove to a little, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, town about 20 minutes outside of mazatlan. after getting lost twice, we finally arrived at our destination. we met up with another girl at her house so that the guys could practice their guitar and singing skills before actually having to impress someone.
we then walked to the girls house. we (well, the others......although i very obligingly observed) sang for about 30 minutes right outside of her bedroom window.....no signs of life. we finally moved to the front of the house where she finally emerged. quite out of it...!
the enamored boy then gave the girl a card and a little gift wrapped up in the cutest box imagine able. the rest of us went around the corner of the house so that they could have some privacy...well, as much privacy as we could before we couldn't help but shout out KISS HER! KISS HER!!!!!
ugghhh.....it was soooooo romantic!!!! american boys should learn how to do this. :P
as we all know, tomorrow is valentine's day. here is mexico valentine's day is to celebrate both love and friendship. compared to my experiences of valentine's day in the states, they take it way more seriously here! you cannot escape it!
at school they played "here comes the bride" over and over again during the valentine's day "bazaar/fair"! i later found out it was because you could actually get "married"! they had like the whole altar thingy set up and the girls even got to wear veils!!!!
all of us international students had a good laugh over this....
side note: carnaval is less than a week away!!!!!!! i'm so excited!!!!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
vanilla
so, i've been sick. other than that nothing too interesting has happened. i finally started my internship for real....yesterday was my first day of actual work. i'm excited and nervous. i'm not sure what i'm really supposed to be doing....but i'll figure it out.
today i will have to take the city bus from school to work. i'm nervous. i've ridden the public transportation here, but only the "nice" buses. the nice busses cost 8 pesos (roughly 75 cents USD), are air conditioned and a good majority of riders are american/canadian/white tourists. the other busses cost 4 pesos (roughly 40 cents USD) and are very shabby looking.
the bus that i have to take doesn't really go by my workplace, but it gets me close enough. i'm nervous about how to get off. because everytime i have gotten off a bus it's been very awkward. i usually just get up when i get an inkling that the bus is going to stop or when someone else has pressed the button.
the buttons don't always work either. so then i'm afraid that i'll actually have to say something in order to get off! that would be terrible! jajaja....
i'm sure i'll be fine. but i tend to freak out.....
today i will have to take the city bus from school to work. i'm nervous. i've ridden the public transportation here, but only the "nice" buses. the nice busses cost 8 pesos (roughly 75 cents USD), are air conditioned and a good majority of riders are american/canadian/white tourists. the other busses cost 4 pesos (roughly 40 cents USD) and are very shabby looking.
the bus that i have to take doesn't really go by my workplace, but it gets me close enough. i'm nervous about how to get off. because everytime i have gotten off a bus it's been very awkward. i usually just get up when i get an inkling that the bus is going to stop or when someone else has pressed the button.
the buttons don't always work either. so then i'm afraid that i'll actually have to say something in order to get off! that would be terrible! jajaja....
i'm sure i'll be fine. but i tend to freak out.....
Thursday, February 5, 2009
so, it's not a vacation after all.....
The other day I had my first meeting at my internship. After some confusion with getting the date and place right, I arrived. To my delight the office where I will be working is on the malecon. What does that mean exactly? Well, it means that when I look outside the office windows I get to enjoy the wonderful ocean view! How sweet is that?!?!?! Another plus is that the office is located inside a hotel that I had done some research on before I got here. It was my grand and glorious idea to possibly spend one or two nights there with anyone who would want to come visit me…….anyone?!?!?! so, I am quite psyched about working in the hotel that I had my sights set on!
I decided to walk to the office for the first meeting so I knew exactly where it was, so that in the future when I take the bus I know where to get off. As usual, I overestimated how long it would take me to get to the office. I arrived 30 minutes early. So I sat on a bench overlooking the beach and tried reading a book in Spanish. I failed miserably.
At exactly 4:30pm I crossed the street and entered the building. the office was just recently set up so it looked a bit uninviting but the orange walls sure made this office exciting! Once the bosses got off their phones they told me to wait since the other intern hadn’t arrived yet. So I struggled through 20 more minutes of reading my book.
The meeting was intense. Since I’m sick, my brain doesn’t function properly and everything she was saying to me was jibberish. Ok, not everything. I do know that I am going to prepare and complete an online marketing plan to advertise new condominiums that are going to be built right next to the hotel. I would include the link to the website here but then I realize that I need to tell them where we put the links to the sites and I don’t really want them reading this blog…..it’s not like I’ve got anything to hide, it’s just not very business oriented. Although, I will be creating a blog for the condominiums so I might put that link up. maybe not. I don’t know how many of my readers are interested in owning luxury condominiums in mexico....... haha….ha.
Once the meeting finished, the other intern and I decided to have dinner and chillax at his place to get to know each other, since we will be working together for the next 3 or so months. We ate at this sushi place. It was good. That’s all I’ll say. :P after that we went to ley, a walmart-esque store. We looked around for stuffed animals that he could give to his quasi girlfriend. Don’t ask….. After not finding anything suitable to get her we headed for the beer. we picked out the only dark beer we could find. Aren't you so proud of me for not drinking that watery garbage padre?!?! We also bought toni col….i think that’s what it’s called. It’s basically the best kind of vanilla coke ever. Period. And, it’s also pretty much only available in Sinaloa, mexico (Mazatlan is a city in the state of Sinaloa…)
After chatting and watching 2 episodes of weeds at his crib, which is actually a hotel room, I left. I began to walk. I noticed that my feet were very sensitive. I figured I had probably developed a blister and wondered if I would be able to walk the 40 minutes back to my place. Once I got to the malecon I decided I could make it, although my body didn’t agree with me on that because 2 seconds later I felt my blister pop. I won’t describe it though, because I know I can tend to be a little too graphic with my descriptions of bodily functions……mother….:P
A few minutes later I hopped onto a lovely pulmonia and headed home. I think $40 pesos is a fair trade for a nice breezy ride through Mazatlan instead of walking for 40 minutes on a recently exploded blister, don’t you think? i thought so…..
So, you may or may not have noticed that my usual style of not capitalizing anything is not evident in this post. It’s because I am now using Microsoft word 2007 instead of notepad.( I finally found a free product key somewhere off the internet so I don’t have to spend $100 USD on validating my trial software that was running out of free uses! ) I do not usually advocate the illegal downloading of products but I feel that since Microsoft has disappointed me with their oh so stellar vista OS, I’m going to get something out of them that is worthwhile!!!!! so, back to my original point about capitalization. Microsoft word auto corrects everything and I’m too lazy to change it. Plus, it has spell check….and I’ve been having problems with bloggers’ spell check recently…..
Sayanara!
I decided to walk to the office for the first meeting so I knew exactly where it was, so that in the future when I take the bus I know where to get off. As usual, I overestimated how long it would take me to get to the office. I arrived 30 minutes early. So I sat on a bench overlooking the beach and tried reading a book in Spanish. I failed miserably.
At exactly 4:30pm I crossed the street and entered the building. the office was just recently set up so it looked a bit uninviting but the orange walls sure made this office exciting! Once the bosses got off their phones they told me to wait since the other intern hadn’t arrived yet. So I struggled through 20 more minutes of reading my book.
The meeting was intense. Since I’m sick, my brain doesn’t function properly and everything she was saying to me was jibberish. Ok, not everything. I do know that I am going to prepare and complete an online marketing plan to advertise new condominiums that are going to be built right next to the hotel. I would include the link to the website here but then I realize that I need to tell them where we put the links to the sites and I don’t really want them reading this blog…..it’s not like I’ve got anything to hide, it’s just not very business oriented. Although, I will be creating a blog for the condominiums so I might put that link up. maybe not. I don’t know how many of my readers are interested in owning luxury condominiums in mexico....... haha….ha.
Once the meeting finished, the other intern and I decided to have dinner and chillax at his place to get to know each other, since we will be working together for the next 3 or so months. We ate at this sushi place. It was good. That’s all I’ll say. :P after that we went to ley, a walmart-esque store. We looked around for stuffed animals that he could give to his quasi girlfriend. Don’t ask….. After not finding anything suitable to get her we headed for the beer. we picked out the only dark beer we could find. Aren't you so proud of me for not drinking that watery garbage padre?!?! We also bought toni col….i think that’s what it’s called. It’s basically the best kind of vanilla coke ever. Period. And, it’s also pretty much only available in Sinaloa, mexico (Mazatlan is a city in the state of Sinaloa…)
After chatting and watching 2 episodes of weeds at his crib, which is actually a hotel room, I left. I began to walk. I noticed that my feet were very sensitive. I figured I had probably developed a blister and wondered if I would be able to walk the 40 minutes back to my place. Once I got to the malecon I decided I could make it, although my body didn’t agree with me on that because 2 seconds later I felt my blister pop. I won’t describe it though, because I know I can tend to be a little too graphic with my descriptions of bodily functions……mother….:P
A few minutes later I hopped onto a lovely pulmonia and headed home. I think $40 pesos is a fair trade for a nice breezy ride through Mazatlan instead of walking for 40 minutes on a recently exploded blister, don’t you think? i thought so…..
So, you may or may not have noticed that my usual style of not capitalizing anything is not evident in this post. It’s because I am now using Microsoft word 2007 instead of notepad.( I finally found a free product key somewhere off the internet so I don’t have to spend $100 USD on validating my trial software that was running out of free uses! ) I do not usually advocate the illegal downloading of products but I feel that since Microsoft has disappointed me with their oh so stellar vista OS, I’m going to get something out of them that is worthwhile!!!!! so, back to my original point about capitalization. Microsoft word auto corrects everything and I’m too lazy to change it. Plus, it has spell check….and I’ve been having problems with bloggers’ spell check recently…..
Sayanara!
Monday, February 2, 2009
EQUIS! X
so, i don't have school today because of some holiday. i believe it's constitution day. but i could be mistaken. i also happen to be a little under the weather. i have a killer sore throat. i always seem to lose my voice at least one time during winter. i know it may not exactly be "winter" down here but the hot days and cool nights do a number on your throat...as well as gulping down salty ocean water and hanging out with smokers......so, since i have loads of free time, i'll fill you in about my life! doesn't that sound like a wonderful idea!?!??! no? too bad, cause here i go!
nothing interesting happened on sunday or monday, so we are going to skip over those days.
after school on tuesday i went to the beach with delfin 3. we were the only crazies to go into the water. because it was like 5pm and the sun had gone down so it was kind of cold. actually it was freezing, in terms of ideal weather for going to the beach. after we couldn't take anymore of the cold we headed to the car only to find out that non-delfin was working! so we stopped by and chatted with him. he gave us free drinks and later on a free espresso! score! we also made plans to do something the next day. score again!
the next day i had to go to an interview for my internship. it's at a real estate place. the whole interview was in english because the owner's are american and we deal with a lot of english customers from the u.s. and canada. i was kinda disappointed and relieved at the same time. i will have to speak spanish occasionally when dealing with mexican business owners to create a realtionship with them so that we can advertise with them.....so i guess i will be using my spanish skillz after all.
after the interview i met up with the guys and "galleta", a friend of theirs. we walked around one of the plaza in the historic center and drank coffee. we then chatted it up at galleta's house and they made fun of my spanish pronunciation and my lacking of the ability to roll my r's. they also found out i had a tattoo. they all thought it was cool. galleta then said she wanted one. who would have thought that i would be an advocate and inspirer (is that how you spell it, is it even a word?!?!) of people getting tattoos. i bet my parent's are oh so proud....i love you mommy and daddy!
galleta was getting tired so we left and headed home only to see the guy who looks like obama and the "first lady"! so we went into the bar where they were and chatted until 1am. i need to stop staying out so late!
on thursday i went out again! this time only until 11pm. this time we went to an "irish" pub. everyone from the previous night was there except galleta. we chatted and chatted. well, i mostly listened and was there for comic relief because my lack of spanish fluency. it was all in good fun though. although sometimes i get a little depressed that i can't understand everything. but they tell me they don't care and that in time i will be able to communicate with little problem.
at the pub we also got our picture taken. the newspaper takes pictures of people at "hot spots" and puts it up on a sister website about how hopping the city of mazatlan is. i checked the website a couple of days later and i found our pictures up there. it even has my name in the caption! i'm famous....AGAIN! not really, but i would like to think so. i will put the link and directions on how to find the pics at the bottom....there is no link directly to the pics, so you will have to navigate through some spanish mumbo jumbo....but it's worth it!
on friday i went to the beach with the same people as the night before. obama went surfing, the first lady tested the water and found it too cold for her liking, and non-delfin is somewhat afraid of the ocean, so delfin 3 and i were the only ones who went swimming. it was cold again, but i just love swimming so much! i am truly a dolphin! jajajajajaja!
after the beach delfin 3, non-delfin (who's actually delfin 5 now...don't ask...it's a huge crazy mess and nobody really knows what's going on anymore... :P), and i went to delfin 3's house to chill. delfin 3 wanted to see where i live so he opened up google earth and i went on a quest to find my house. has anyone used google earth? if not, i recommend it to EVERYONE! i saw my little house in oak creek so close, it seriously looked like we were 10 feet away from it! we saw it from the ground view, like i was standing in the corn field across from my house looking at it! the picture quality was so amazing! they guys thought it was so cool so see my house. i was so impressed. we tried looking at delfin 3's house, but mexico isn't documented as well, so we could only see the top of his house.
after that, delfin 5 and i went home to shower and change so we could go out and party again!
once we arrived back at delfin 3's house we jammed to music. and do you know what music they were playing? come on eileen and take on me! 2 of the greatest songs of the 80's! but, they were remakes, so they thought that these were new songs! jajajaja! they had no idea that the songs they were listening to weren't the originals! so i enlightened them by playing the originals on youtube. they thought it was sweet that i knew about it.
once the rest of los delfines arrived we went to a house party that was 3 blocks away from where i live. they were playing psycho (like dance/techno/electronic except way cooler!) the guys always try to get to break out of my shell and want me to dance psycho with them. it always takes a while for me to get comfortable but eventually i do. we were probably the only ones dancing, but we had a great time. after dancing we chatted it up with some peeps. everyone always gets a kick out of talking to me. i mean, what is a gringa from wisconsin doing, hanging out with a bunch of mexican guys and dancing all crazy like to psycho? i think it's probably also refreshing that i don't speak in english.
after chatting for a little while the po-po came. they told us we were too loud and that the party was over. so delfin 3 and i went into the house's garage area and danced psycho. we were the only ones dancing. we got lots of crazy looks. one guy said...hey, i know that ballerina! (referring to delfin 3) it was funny, you had to be there. delfin 3 also said that i had great "flow" and all the other delfines agreed that it was impressive. what can i say? i don't think they realize how much i love listening to techno/dance music. i probably like it more than them and when i'm with my sister we just go crazy! BBBLLLLLAAHHHHH!!!!!!! we then went on a beer run. and delfin 1 bought be my customary strawberry fanta! we returned to the party that was supposedly over. we talked outside of some guys house while listening to music that was playing one of the guy's car. at 3 am we finally called it quits.
i slept until 1pm on saturday. i needed it because i was going to beach again that day! this time i went with delfines 1 and 3. the water was cold again. it was really funny because they had goosebumps and were obviously really cold, while i was slightly cool. they don't have the thick wisconsin blood like i do! go WISCONSIN!!!! once we couldn't take the cold anymore we went our separate ways to change and get ready for the night's festivities.
i got ready at delfin 3's house so i wouldn't have to spend money and time taking the bus. his brother and him got were amused by the fact that i brought my hair dryer and straightener. delfin 3 told me i could bring my suitcase if i wanted to....i don't think he realized i actually would! ok, i didn't bring my suitcase, but i brought enough stuff that it seemed like i did......
after getting ready, i fell asleep for 2 hours. i don't know what it is about watching x-men 3 and making me tired, but i zonked out.....or maybe it was running/swimming around in the water and partying too much....but who knows! after waking up i had cream of mushroom soup with some sort of quesadilla thing at delfin 3's house. we then proceeded to get gas, money, and delfin1.
after retrieving delfin 1 we walked around the plaza. we saw these rastafarian drum playing and dancing people. it was cool. we then went to a bar. it was too full so we tried to go to the irish pub that i had been to earlier in the week, but we couldn't get in. it was because i was american and didn't have proof of being in mexico legally...or something like that. they didn't want immigration to come! so, we decided to go pick up delfin 5 at work.
once delfin 5 was in tow we went to a restaurant parking lot near the beach and started to pistear! which means, drinking......it was a little boring and i was pretty tired. so we decided to go to frogs! senor frogs is a huge restaurant/club chain. it started in mazatlan, so we had to go so i could experience it. i almost wasn't allowed in again because of my lack of identification. but delfin 5 pulled some strings (he knows like everyone in mazatlan, it's ridiculous.) and i was allowed in.
once inside they guys got some booze and we found a place to chilax. i saw a canadian that goes to tec with me, so i said hello. he ended up going over to my friends. now, this canadian speaks practically no spanish so it was interesting hearing my friends speak in english since they never speak english to me..at least not in complete sentences. my friends also found it funny when i talked to english to the canadian because i never speak english to them either. they joked that they were really surprised to find out that i did in fact speak english!
it was really smokey where we were situated so we decided to move to the dancefloor. the music had gotten better so we all started dancing. then i found 5 pesos on the ground! we danced like crazy and had a great time! until delfin 3 started showing signs of boredom. it was ridiculously crowded and i usually don't like that type of atmosphere so i understand where he was coming from.
from frogs we went to pick up delfin 4 in his gated community. we had a little difficulty being allowed in, but we finally managed to get in. from delfin 4's house we went back to the restaurant parking lot and chilled. literally...it was a little bit cold! as we were talking we realized that somewhere down the beach there a was a party going on that was playing psycho! we decided to investigate. it didn't take long to find the party and once we got there we just let ourselves in.
that rave was probably one of the best experiences of my life so far. we all danced furiously! i also found 10 pesos on the floor! after an hour of bailando the music stopped, much to our dismay. the guys were so proud that i finally let go and just danced. they said i have become a fine psycho dancer and proud to call me their own......on the way home we stopped off for some hot dogs. mine was free since i had found 15 pesos on the ground! score!
at 6am i finally arrived at my house and i said a "special" goodbye to delfin3 because he's going to school in guadalarja and we won't be able to see eachother in a while. sadness. at least there's still the others and msn messenger! (which happpens to be immensely popular down here...)
now, i am sitting here jamming to my psycho music and trying not to talk. i am actually sucking on halls lozenges, which i never do because i hate the taste! but, that's all i could find without having to ask anyone! heheheheh! :P
so, here are the links and directions. check it out! if you feel brave enough to meander through the cryptic language of spanish websites!
alright, so i thought, i wouldn't be able to get links directly to the pics, but i can! so here they are!
delfin 3 and me! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24525
obama and the first lady! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24526
obama, the first lady, delfin 5, me, delfin 3! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24527
delfin 5, jajajajajja! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24529
p.s. a lot of you tell me you are following my blog, which i am deeply greatful for. thanks for staying in touch with me, it shows me how awesome my friends really are! also, if you don't have a blogger account, you should get one so you can officially follow my blog! because i know a lot of people read my blog yet don't have blogger, so do me a favor and become an official follower so i can put a number to how many of you read it....then i may be more inclined to write more regularly. and you can leave comments and such or ask me questions so it's not so one-sided! THANKS!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!
nothing interesting happened on sunday or monday, so we are going to skip over those days.
after school on tuesday i went to the beach with delfin 3. we were the only crazies to go into the water. because it was like 5pm and the sun had gone down so it was kind of cold. actually it was freezing, in terms of ideal weather for going to the beach. after we couldn't take anymore of the cold we headed to the car only to find out that non-delfin was working! so we stopped by and chatted with him. he gave us free drinks and later on a free espresso! score! we also made plans to do something the next day. score again!
the next day i had to go to an interview for my internship. it's at a real estate place. the whole interview was in english because the owner's are american and we deal with a lot of english customers from the u.s. and canada. i was kinda disappointed and relieved at the same time. i will have to speak spanish occasionally when dealing with mexican business owners to create a realtionship with them so that we can advertise with them.....so i guess i will be using my spanish skillz after all.
after the interview i met up with the guys and "galleta", a friend of theirs. we walked around one of the plaza in the historic center and drank coffee. we then chatted it up at galleta's house and they made fun of my spanish pronunciation and my lacking of the ability to roll my r's. they also found out i had a tattoo. they all thought it was cool. galleta then said she wanted one. who would have thought that i would be an advocate and inspirer (is that how you spell it, is it even a word?!?!) of people getting tattoos. i bet my parent's are oh so proud....i love you mommy and daddy!
galleta was getting tired so we left and headed home only to see the guy who looks like obama and the "first lady"! so we went into the bar where they were and chatted until 1am. i need to stop staying out so late!
on thursday i went out again! this time only until 11pm. this time we went to an "irish" pub. everyone from the previous night was there except galleta. we chatted and chatted. well, i mostly listened and was there for comic relief because my lack of spanish fluency. it was all in good fun though. although sometimes i get a little depressed that i can't understand everything. but they tell me they don't care and that in time i will be able to communicate with little problem.
at the pub we also got our picture taken. the newspaper takes pictures of people at "hot spots" and puts it up on a sister website about how hopping the city of mazatlan is. i checked the website a couple of days later and i found our pictures up there. it even has my name in the caption! i'm famous....AGAIN! not really, but i would like to think so. i will put the link and directions on how to find the pics at the bottom....there is no link directly to the pics, so you will have to navigate through some spanish mumbo jumbo....but it's worth it!
on friday i went to the beach with the same people as the night before. obama went surfing, the first lady tested the water and found it too cold for her liking, and non-delfin is somewhat afraid of the ocean, so delfin 3 and i were the only ones who went swimming. it was cold again, but i just love swimming so much! i am truly a dolphin! jajajajajaja!
after the beach delfin 3, non-delfin (who's actually delfin 5 now...don't ask...it's a huge crazy mess and nobody really knows what's going on anymore... :P), and i went to delfin 3's house to chill. delfin 3 wanted to see where i live so he opened up google earth and i went on a quest to find my house. has anyone used google earth? if not, i recommend it to EVERYONE! i saw my little house in oak creek so close, it seriously looked like we were 10 feet away from it! we saw it from the ground view, like i was standing in the corn field across from my house looking at it! the picture quality was so amazing! they guys thought it was so cool so see my house. i was so impressed. we tried looking at delfin 3's house, but mexico isn't documented as well, so we could only see the top of his house.
after that, delfin 5 and i went home to shower and change so we could go out and party again!
once we arrived back at delfin 3's house we jammed to music. and do you know what music they were playing? come on eileen and take on me! 2 of the greatest songs of the 80's! but, they were remakes, so they thought that these were new songs! jajajaja! they had no idea that the songs they were listening to weren't the originals! so i enlightened them by playing the originals on youtube. they thought it was sweet that i knew about it.
once the rest of los delfines arrived we went to a house party that was 3 blocks away from where i live. they were playing psycho (like dance/techno/electronic except way cooler!) the guys always try to get to break out of my shell and want me to dance psycho with them. it always takes a while for me to get comfortable but eventually i do. we were probably the only ones dancing, but we had a great time. after dancing we chatted it up with some peeps. everyone always gets a kick out of talking to me. i mean, what is a gringa from wisconsin doing, hanging out with a bunch of mexican guys and dancing all crazy like to psycho? i think it's probably also refreshing that i don't speak in english.
after chatting for a little while the po-po came. they told us we were too loud and that the party was over. so delfin 3 and i went into the house's garage area and danced psycho. we were the only ones dancing. we got lots of crazy looks. one guy said...hey, i know that ballerina! (referring to delfin 3) it was funny, you had to be there. delfin 3 also said that i had great "flow" and all the other delfines agreed that it was impressive. what can i say? i don't think they realize how much i love listening to techno/dance music. i probably like it more than them and when i'm with my sister we just go crazy! BBBLLLLLAAHHHHH!!!!!!! we then went on a beer run. and delfin 1 bought be my customary strawberry fanta! we returned to the party that was supposedly over. we talked outside of some guys house while listening to music that was playing one of the guy's car. at 3 am we finally called it quits.
i slept until 1pm on saturday. i needed it because i was going to beach again that day! this time i went with delfines 1 and 3. the water was cold again. it was really funny because they had goosebumps and were obviously really cold, while i was slightly cool. they don't have the thick wisconsin blood like i do! go WISCONSIN!!!! once we couldn't take the cold anymore we went our separate ways to change and get ready for the night's festivities.
i got ready at delfin 3's house so i wouldn't have to spend money and time taking the bus. his brother and him got were amused by the fact that i brought my hair dryer and straightener. delfin 3 told me i could bring my suitcase if i wanted to....i don't think he realized i actually would! ok, i didn't bring my suitcase, but i brought enough stuff that it seemed like i did......
after getting ready, i fell asleep for 2 hours. i don't know what it is about watching x-men 3 and making me tired, but i zonked out.....or maybe it was running/swimming around in the water and partying too much....but who knows! after waking up i had cream of mushroom soup with some sort of quesadilla thing at delfin 3's house. we then proceeded to get gas, money, and delfin1.
after retrieving delfin 1 we walked around the plaza. we saw these rastafarian drum playing and dancing people. it was cool. we then went to a bar. it was too full so we tried to go to the irish pub that i had been to earlier in the week, but we couldn't get in. it was because i was american and didn't have proof of being in mexico legally...or something like that. they didn't want immigration to come! so, we decided to go pick up delfin 5 at work.
once delfin 5 was in tow we went to a restaurant parking lot near the beach and started to pistear! which means, drinking......it was a little boring and i was pretty tired. so we decided to go to frogs! senor frogs is a huge restaurant/club chain. it started in mazatlan, so we had to go so i could experience it. i almost wasn't allowed in again because of my lack of identification. but delfin 5 pulled some strings (he knows like everyone in mazatlan, it's ridiculous.) and i was allowed in.
once inside they guys got some booze and we found a place to chilax. i saw a canadian that goes to tec with me, so i said hello. he ended up going over to my friends. now, this canadian speaks practically no spanish so it was interesting hearing my friends speak in english since they never speak english to me..at least not in complete sentences. my friends also found it funny when i talked to english to the canadian because i never speak english to them either. they joked that they were really surprised to find out that i did in fact speak english!
it was really smokey where we were situated so we decided to move to the dancefloor. the music had gotten better so we all started dancing. then i found 5 pesos on the ground! we danced like crazy and had a great time! until delfin 3 started showing signs of boredom. it was ridiculously crowded and i usually don't like that type of atmosphere so i understand where he was coming from.
from frogs we went to pick up delfin 4 in his gated community. we had a little difficulty being allowed in, but we finally managed to get in. from delfin 4's house we went back to the restaurant parking lot and chilled. literally...it was a little bit cold! as we were talking we realized that somewhere down the beach there a was a party going on that was playing psycho! we decided to investigate. it didn't take long to find the party and once we got there we just let ourselves in.
that rave was probably one of the best experiences of my life so far. we all danced furiously! i also found 10 pesos on the floor! after an hour of bailando the music stopped, much to our dismay. the guys were so proud that i finally let go and just danced. they said i have become a fine psycho dancer and proud to call me their own......on the way home we stopped off for some hot dogs. mine was free since i had found 15 pesos on the ground! score!
at 6am i finally arrived at my house and i said a "special" goodbye to delfin3 because he's going to school in guadalarja and we won't be able to see eachother in a while. sadness. at least there's still the others and msn messenger! (which happpens to be immensely popular down here...)
now, i am sitting here jamming to my psycho music and trying not to talk. i am actually sucking on halls lozenges, which i never do because i hate the taste! but, that's all i could find without having to ask anyone! heheheheh! :P
so, here are the links and directions. check it out! if you feel brave enough to meander through the cryptic language of spanish websites!
alright, so i thought, i wouldn't be able to get links directly to the pics, but i can! so here they are!
delfin 3 and me! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24525
obama and the first lady! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24526
obama, the first lady, delfin 5, me, delfin 3! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24527
delfin 5, jajajajajja! http://www.buenaondaweb.com/galeria.php?idnota=766&idimg=24529
p.s. a lot of you tell me you are following my blog, which i am deeply greatful for. thanks for staying in touch with me, it shows me how awesome my friends really are! also, if you don't have a blogger account, you should get one so you can officially follow my blog! because i know a lot of people read my blog yet don't have blogger, so do me a favor and become an official follower so i can put a number to how many of you read it....then i may be more inclined to write more regularly. and you can leave comments and such or ask me questions so it's not so one-sided! THANKS!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!
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