Recap

I feel like there is so much to catch up on, but we’ll just recap briefly(ish).
Friday: Woke up around 8 and did homework until 1, went to eat lunch with Kayla at the cafeteria, then we got Mariah and just walked around the neighborhoods around campus and went to Home Depot to get a new shower head b/c ours is corroded and rusty. A little while later pretty much all the USAC students met in Alyssa’s huuge loft room and hung out for a little while we decided what we were going to do. Our original plan was to go to Cholula to a techno club, but Alyssa said since it’s a huge college town and school hasn’t started yet it would probably be dead. But we ended up going anyway to this really awesome bar/club called Bar Fly, but the l and the y weren’t lit up so it just looked like “barf”. Hehe. They were playing really good music, and the clientele were dressed really modern/the kids in the US that attempt to reject popular society by means of old tight sweaters and keds or something. Whatever it is that they wear. We met another American there, Cedric. He’s a football coach at one of the universities in Cholula, and probably the only black person in Mexico. We went with him across the street to this dance club, Ultra (I think was the name). There was a huge line to get in but he said that’s his spot and goes there all the time so he knows everyone that works there so we cut the line and got right in. It was so crowded, we had to squeeze our way to the dance floor. It was two levels and they played all kinds of music. We heard popular Mexican songs, Shania Twain, Spice Girls, techno, Soulja Boy, along with other random songs that we haven’t heard for years. We left around 3 and it was still as crowded as when we got there. There was no sign of stopping. It was definitely the best club I’ve been to yet. Then we took a taxi back to the dorms.
Saturday: This morning I wake up to Chris yelling “Morgan! Morgan!” trying to find what room we’re in to wake us up to go shopping for shoes/clothes to wear out b/c last night we all felt so underdressed. So Kayla opens the door and the three USAC guys walk in (it’s like 11:30am). “Why are you awake???? It’s still the AM!” Anyway, so we got ready and went to the Zocalo to go shopping. We ate at this really good restaurant, and had the biggest glass of fresh squeezed orange juice I have ever seen. then walked around. Afterwards we sat on the wall of the Zocalo and watched a clown perform. Chris and I started talking to this guy Phillip, who spoke as much English as we do Spanish, so it was perfect.
The other students are starting to come back; there are two girls in the common room playing video games. There’s no insulation in the wall here so you can hear every single thing anyone does. Which is fine, because when it starts getting really hot, no insulation will be realllllly nice.
The other night Josh went to the hospital b/c he “got it”. Then last night Fionna went home early because she “got it”. We all know it’s coming, we just don’t know who’s next…It’s pretty much inevitable to get sick.
Tonight we’re going back to Cholula to wear our new dancing shoes. But for now, I think I’ll take a nap. Pictures are coming as soon as I can get a good mix of campus, downtown, and people.