Last week of classes

Well, it's finally almost here...I'm heading home in 6 days...no offense to everyone, of course I miss you guys...but I don't know that I'm really all that excited about returning home. I'm excited to see my family, friends, and excited about my trip w/ Kat to Phoenix & Prescott, AZ...but I guess I'm just not ready to leave Mexico yet. I haven't accomplished all that I hoped while being here and I love Queretaro. It's a beautiful city. Funny, how when I left NM to come here in May, I wasn't sure what I'd gotten myself into and was completely opposite of being excited about the experience. However, now I'm extremely appreciative of it, and have fallen in love with the place. If I had the money, the time from school, and was more familiar with class options here...I would [without a doubt] stay here until December.

So about my week...been ok, kinda flying by. On Tuesday Mariela, me, Erin, and Jess went downtown to do some shopping...little did we know 95% of the merchants actually do not work on Tuesdays, haha! Did I mention it was pouring rain the entire time?? *LOL* We had fun splashing through puddles and watching the streets get flooded....all to come back to our rooms (where we'd left our windows open) to find puddles on our floors and a welcoming 'moldy smell'.





Yesterday we attempted Al Centro again, and the weather was great! We got some cool shopping done; lots of little knick-knacks and jewelry, tshirts, etc. However, the best part of yesterday was class...we had a piñata contest with the other exchange-classes. It was interesting, LOL. It was cool, because the intent of the exercise was for us to make these piñatas for charity...they are all delivered to local less-fortunate children, which I think is amazingly cool. Also, we learned some breif history on piñatas...did you know they actually originated in CHINA? Anyhow, we made Alebrijes, which are a mixture of animals in one body....for example: our alebrije was a rainbow colored seahorse w/ turkey feathers, a monkey face, and elephant ears :-). His name was Arcoiris = "rainbow". We actually won 3rd place in the competition and our prizes were these pretty, little hand-made mexican bags. I really like mine :-).




(Ours is the rainbow colored "thing" with big green ears and turkey feathers; next to the frog/ turtle looking thing)



As for today...just class, then went to Soriana with Jess to get bread....funny, we came back with everything else in the store BUT bread, hehe.
Welp, I guess that's it for my excited week...love you, miss you, see you next week.
~Sara