Aquí!

After a very emotional and somewhat stressful day I am finally here in Querétaro!  Both flights went very well...except for almost tossing my cookies on the last leg of the journey in that little plane from Houston to Querétaro! 

I have just finished unpacking and decorating my room...starting to feel a little like home.  The city is so beautiful and the terrain is littered with mountains and valleys dotted with small cities and towns.  However Querétaro is much bigger than I imagined and my historic slice of a neighborhood is more amazing than I could have dreamed.

My host family is sooo sweet and caring! My host mother is all I could have hoped for and more! I truly feel welcome here as if this is my home away from home.  My room even kinda reminds me of my grandmother keck's house with the red and white tile floor and the quaint wooden furniture. 

As I sit here with my bedroom window open I can hear a distant clang of a railroad warning signal as well as the faint echos of someone speaking into a microphone as if at a small party or street festival while dogs bark in unison to the passing of police sirens.  This may not sound like everyone's ideal living situation...but for me it feels just like my apartment in Greensboro.  Also there is a historic train station named simply, "Estación de Ferrocarril" that occasionally has screaming trains barreling down the tracks directly behind my house.  No worries though I've lived beside of train tracks before...nothing new. 

I hate to admit it but I already miss home...my boyfriend....my family...my bed...my language...my culture...but from here I can see only grand adventures and life changing experiences ahead of me.  I vow to live it up here in Querétaro and make the most of my time.  And tonight as the sun sets on the first day of my new and more open minded existence, I will sleep a deep and well deserved slumber under my first Mexican moon.