More stuff

So yesterday we did another drop off, but this time around to market places around Oaxaca city. My friend Rebecca and I had to do stuff on Chiles. We had to take the bus over there, which was a bit of an ordeal. So we asked a lot of people, and a nice guy on the bus helped us get off, amazingly like, 2 blocks away from the market. Then we walked around, did a few interviews, and observed people for awhile. It was basically like being an anthropologist. Kinda cool. Then I went back to my house and got there around 4pm, and had lunch. I hung out at home all that evening, doing my reading/talking with my host mom. We talked for an hour! And she told me that I really should take showers every day because it's good for the health. She felt really strongly about it. Also, (I still kinda naw at my nails), and she told me that I should really stop biting my nails, because then I won't get a job. Anyway then I went to bed at around 11:30pm. Rather early for me, but, in order to get up at 7:30 the next morning for classes.

Today, I had my first day of classes. Somewhat advanced Spanish class for 4 hours. The first 2 hours were of grammar. Bleh. But I realized that I still have quite a lot of mistakes in my speaking. So I guess it'll be good. And then tomorrow one of the 5 people in our class is supposed to write a paper, and do a 30 minute presentation, with questions, etc to last 1 hour. It's supposed to be about our projects. What the heck! He didn't even assign who was going to do it, and didn't tell us how long the paper had to be. But he's pretty cool regardless. It shouldn't be too bad. We'll figure this stuff out as we go along. The next 2 hours were simply conversation, and it was actually pretty fun.
After class, me and a couple friends, Morgann and Megan, went down to the zócalo (center) to read articles for the next class, and chat for a few hours. Then I went home for lunch at 2:30pm. Then we had our Thematic Seminar about social organizations, etc (today was about the mexican economy and history), at 4pm. I think it will become quite busy with readings etc, but there will still be some time for chilling out. Good night!