La Bufa

Thursday Night I met Casey's roommates who are from Francia. They are so fun and amazing. We hung out at their house and ate fresh pinapple. It is so tasty! Yesterday was good, but not as great as planned with academics, we figured out our classes and everything. We got allowed to be in classes in Valenciana, but couldn't turn in our stuff to actually sign up-so we went and bought 8 avacados, cilantro, lots of the little limes, tomatoes, and an onion for less than 5 american dollars. With those ingrediants plus salt and galic we made the best pit of guacamole ever. We used 7 of the avacados and ate it all! We meaning Coleman, me and Casey for the most part. Her roommates helped us out a little. In addition to that we had watermelon, fresh strawberries and the mini bananas while on top of casey's roof laying in the sun. It was amazing. So warm and we could look over the city, which is beautiful...I will put up pictures sometime. It was so relaxing especially since Alex-who joined a little later, Casey and I all got less than 2 hours of sleep the night before. Last night I slept, showered, unpacked, found the scorpian under my shoes and slept more.
This morning we got up really early to hike the bufa! Its so incredible and so amazing. It took over two hours to go up and because I'm getting sick I was having a really hard time breathing, so it made it a little harder than it shoulda been haha. Anyways, we could see Leon and Guanajuato and all the mountains in the area. Everything was so BIG, all the crevasis, gaps, rocks, cliffs, it was incredible. Literally felt like I was on the top of the world. The aloe vera plants here are huge too! I tried to pick one of the leaves and the plant was taller than me and it was not even the biggest we have seen! They are everywhere even growing out of the rock walls around the tunnels.
Side note-Coleman is from Montana, Casey is from Eugene, but doing the exchange through SOU, Alex and Olivia are from Canada and Becca and Aly are from West Virginia. Jessica, my new roommate is from Ashland also and Junko my other roommate is from Japan. Becca is the only one that I accually share a room with. Alex and Aly live next to each other, both up the mountain. Aly lives with the same host family as Stephen who is also from West Virginia. Elvis is from Ghana and there is apparently a whole other group from Michigan and stuff that we haven't really met yet. My mother is Mari Cruz and her daughters are Fernanda and Pamelah.
Food: Increible. Delicioso. Amazing. The big meal is at like 3 or so and Mari Cruz always makes delicious food. Today it was tacos. In the morning there is always fruit with cereal or waffles or eggs or even pretoasted toast ha. At night its usually either quesadillas or sandwishes but I always eat quesadillas. I haven't eaten out much just because I want to hear about all the good stuff first plus Mari Cruz always has food for us. There is a drink that Mari Cruz gives us at dinner, but since I liked it so much now for breakfast also, its called avena. It is my favorite, better than coffee or hot chocolate or anything. It is cinnamon sticks boiled in water, oats, a little milk and I think sugar but not sure-some kinda powdery stuff.
Mari Cruz has a friend that helps her clean, like every single day. Every part of the house even our room so our floors are always clean and beds made. I thought it was only supposed to be once a week, but learned and felt bad about my mess after a few days. The roads are crazy! Super tiny and there arent really large sidewalks or sometimes side walks at all. All the roads in the city go one direction and the tunnels underneath the city allow the cars to go the other direction. Makes it easy to cross the road! time to nap....