Favourite Mexican Sayings

Oye! Es tu novia no tu lonche!
"Hey, that's your girlfriend, not your sandwich!"

Ahuevo, pinche cara clacuache bodeguero!
"Well done, you freaking possum faced warehouse dweller!"

Music and More

Last night I went out with a bunch of my international friends to an orchestra concert here in Monterrey. The crazy thing was that the conductor was my friend's dad and the pianist, his mom. They're all from Switzerland. Afterwards we went backstage and spoke with them. It was pretty funny at the start when we were trying to figure out which languages people spoke and which one would be the language of conversation. I heard at least five different languages, crazy. The concert was awesome.
Afterwards we went out to a club in San Pedro. They had some live bands on, one of which was amazing. They played everything from Grease, to Black Eyed Peas, to Rock Latino. I really miss playing music in a band. Hopefully this summer I get a chance to pick up an instrument again.

Some things are just worth the effort

Running is my free time activity of choice right now, so yesterday I picked a mountain near my campus and just started running there. I arrived at the base of the mountain in about half an hour, but didn't know where the path to the summit was, so started picking random roads that were heading up. After the second dead end I asked someone and found out I was pretty much on the wrong side of the mountain. I arrived at the start of the path 1:20 after I set out and started on the way up. It was a steep and rocky path and about a 2500m climb to the summit. As I neared the top the sun began to set.



The sun set with about 500m left to go, so I saved the summit for another day and started making my way down. I got back to residence about 4:30 hours after I set out, exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated, but with some killer pictures. Some things are just worth the effort.

Curiosidades de pensamiento

It's funny how the brain works sometimes... frankly unexplainable. For instance, I realized a little while ago that I know where all of my classrooms are by the trees and bushes that I would try to grab or land on if I fell off the building.
What does that mean?

Why?

Ok, so does anyone know why one nostril would suddenly swell up, but not the other? Seriously, all of a sudden one side of my nose is swollen and irritated and it has been all day. Could a sunburn cause this? Wow, that looks funny.

In other news, a good tip for being in Mexico is to never ask a girl if she's in High School. She's probably older than you. Stick with "what are you studying?".

PS. These topics are unrelated, I swear!

Laredo

I've been so sick this week! Ick. I thought I was over it yesterday, but I think the race put me back a few days. Luckily most of the midterms are over now. One more to go on Wednesday.
Great news though! My camera charger arrived from Germany, so I can take pictures again! (Danke schön Jana und Paul!)


This weekend we went to a competition called the Border Olympics in Laredo, Texas. Overall the team did really well. My race was at 1:30PM, but lucky for me it wasn't too hot of a day. I ran the 1500 for a new PB of 4:04.7 . That time is starting to look a little better. I came through the 1100m mark in 2:57. Now I just need a strong closing lap to get that sub 4.