Day 2

July 11, 2009     4:49pm

Today was our first day of orientation. We learned a lot about the program/expectations/yadda-yadda. We also got a post card from our host family. We went up the mountain on this bus, and went to a very cool locale. There were mountains all around us and the clouds felt as if they were close enough to touch. The people here are very cool as well. I am making friends with some of the other kids a lot easier than I had expected. Tonight we have an examination which tells us which class we are in for the rest of the July program. I will probably be at the bottom, because all these others kids seem more fluid and have bigger vocabularies, but that’s fine with me. I just want to get as good if not better than they are now. Tonight I meet my family for the first time and move into the homestay. I learned today that I have to walk through Guanajuato’s infamous tunnel system in order to get to class everyday. At least another girl that is here, named Jourie, will be living next door to me at my hacienda (we even kind of have the same address). I’m pretty excited to see how tonight plays out after dinner. The food here is great. Seriously, splendid! The bathrooms however, are a little sketchy. They don’t flush toilet paper down the toilets because there’s not enough water pressure. They also don’t have toilet seats on all the toilets. It’s like when a man goes to the toilet in the United States and lifts that lid, that’s how it is always. Weird. Excited but scared at the same time.