One Week Today!

¡Hola a todos!  Wow can you believe it's already been one whole week since I arrived!!! I can't!  It already feels like I've been here forever! The time passes so slowly here..at least for now.  Once I start school tomorrow...the weeks will probably fly by because I will be so busy with school and learning new things!  I've only been here a week but I feel like I have already learned SO much.  It is now very rare that I don't understand what my mamá and my papá are talking about.  Sometimes a vocabulary word escapes me and I have to have them explain it to me, but the majority of the time now I can understand about 90% of what they are talking about...which is a drastic improvement already.  I wonder what I'll be like at the end of this year...hopefully much much better than I am now.  To everyone back in the states, I miss you all very much!  But I have promised myself that I would not let these sad and nostalgic emotions get in my way of having the best time I possibly could while abroad.  If I had been born in an early generation where there weren't the pleasantries of internet and skype...I know that my time away from you all would be much harder.  However you all are only a click or a call away and I can see you all and talk to you all pretty much any time I would like to...which makes things much easier and more bearable. 

My last day free of academic responsibilities has been very pretty so far!  It is already very warm here...probably in the 80's and the sun is as beautiful as ever.  I feel so alive here!  Everyone I have met so far has been very helpful and pleasant and the city is as beautiful and as welcoming as I could have hoped for!  I know that I have to return to the states in December to finish my degrees, but as of right now...I believe I could live here forever and be much happier than in chatham county.  The city is so alive with history and heritage!  I feel more of a connection to Querétaro than I have ever felt to Siler City...and I have only lived here for one week!  Who knows?  I may change my mind by December, but as of right now I am very happy here. 

This morning we ate tamales (ones with puerco, ones with guava, and ones with cheese inside), as well as papaya and cantaloupe and coffee.  Everything was as delicious as always.  After breakfast I went down the street to a little store called "Bodega Aurrera" to pick up some snacks and a few other things so that I wouldn't have to buy any lunch on campus because the cafeteria on campus is very expensive.  Let's see...I bought 2 packs of fruit bars, Q-tips, a big bottle of water, and a huge bottle of apple flavored water for only $5.  The fruit bars alone in the states would probably have cost about this much! In about an hour I am going with mi mamá to her church and then who knows what I'll do!  The church is very close to the "centro" the most historic part of town...so while I'm there I may take some pictures to show you all!  The centro is so beautiful...I can't wait for you all to see it!  I will definitely post again later...but until then... ¡Adios!