It´s been two more weeks and much has happened! :)
I just got back from salsa class. They have them here every Mon, Wed, and Fridays at 7 :) I´m meeting so many new people, many good dancers, and God willing I will be a beast at salsa by the end of the semester!
As for RA stuff, we´ve had plenty of programs. It´s been pretty chilly here these past two weeks. One of the days I was talking with some of the other prefectos and said we should have a bonfire with marshmallows, hot chocolate, and old mexican stories. LOL. They laughed and then they said ok, when do you want to do it?...LOL (There is no hesitation here....no joke, two days later they had formal poster ads made and put up all over the building!). So on our halls individually we had a night of baking cookies and making Abuelita chocolaté caliente....yum! And then the following Sunday night we had a the fogatada (bonfire) together outside with marshmallows and hotdogs. Both programs were a great time to get to know my girls (especially the hot chocalate and cookie night!). All of my girls are from México, most are attending Tec, and a few actually attend the Prepa (highschool) that is funded by Tec. My roommate Georgina, actually, is only 16 and go to Prepa Tec. They´re only a handful though on my hall, most are university students.
Another huge program we had was the torneo de fútbol last weekend...a really great time to get to know my girls. Almost all the halls competed. Our hall made the semifinals, but just barely missed out on the finals due to a tie game and fault of the goalie (yours truely) during the 5 free shots. Nevertheless, we had a great time and it is something we could never forget!
In addition to programs, I´ve completed my first night of back'up weekend duty (guardia auxiliar) and all went really well. The only thing I had to do was pasa listas at 10pm through all the girls res halls. It took about 2 hours, but I met a lot of the girls and it wasn´t too bad. Guys don´t have to pasa lista here...it´s a paternal thing I guess.
Outside of being a prefecto (which you really are 24-7 here...even the cafeteria people know who you are!), I attended a meeting with the director of all the 28 campuses of Tec (who I didn´t realize who it was until after the meeting), traveled throughout El Centro dowtown Monterrey to find class books (which I still haven´t been able to find yet), attended a free pilates class (in Spanish) at the gym, had a homemade meal with a real mexicana familia from my church off campus, and ate menudo sopa for the first time (which I didn´t know until after I ate it that menudo is actually cow´s intestines!!!...apparently a delicacy here in Monterrey on Sundays). I´m not gonna lie, it wasn´t too bad. However, I think once is suffient. :)
Right now, it´s 10:20pm and I´m still waiting in the library for my Relaciones Internacionales group who were supposed to meet here at 9:30...mexican time is a slightly different from the US. ;) By next Tuesday, we have to have completed 10 of our 40 pages (in Español) about our thesis for the semester. We still haven´t picked a hypothesis yet. All we know is it has something to do with internacional migración. Fortunately we have a holliday this coming weekend (because Feb5 is La Día de Constitución) so we´ll have some time to work on it then. As for now, though, I should probably go try to find my group... :)¡Nos vemos!
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