Well I've been down here a couple of days now, and i guess it's probably time to start my blog or something. So the flight down here wasn't too bad, a 2 and a half hour flight from LAX to Dallas, with an hour and a half there to eat lunch, and then jump on the plane again to Mexico City. It's a whole new experience down here, and it's nothing like anything that I've ever done before. I knew it would be hard the second i got off the the plane here and absolutely everything was in Spanish, and i realized that my Spanish was not as good as I wish it was, it would have made the transition a whole lot easier. Luckily I can understand the majority of what is said to me, but i definitely have to improve my vocabulary dramatically. The people here are really nice and I like them lots, we get along well as far as I can tell, and I think once I can speak good Spanish again it will be a blast! The taxi ride to the Academy was insane! The drivers here don't really care about any traffic laws, they are more or less just suggestions that you can choose to follow or not to follow. At one point in the taxi there were three lanes and four cars and a bus all side by side, i couldn't believe that they managed to fit everyone into that space, it was crazy. This city is huge here, but I think that I will come to love it. Although I doubt that I will ever come to love the smelliness of most of it. The majority of the city smells not very good, however the part that we are in isn't too bad, but it definitely isn't the fresh mountain valley air that I am use to. Yesterday, my first full day was really hard for me, we sat in the classroom planning for the rest of the year for the better part of six hours, and I didn't understand a lot of what was said, and what i did understand I knew nothing about, because I've never been here before. I was really having a hard time and starting to wonder why the heck I came down here in the first place. It has been really hard not having connections to my friends and family all the time. I'm use to always being able to whip out my phone and text anyone that I wanted to and be able to hear back from them really quickly. I could also call people and go hang out with them in minutes and do all the things that I am familiar with, and now I don't have any of that. It's weird every time I leave the offices because that is the only area with reliable wi-fi (a.k.a. connection to the rest of the world) because I know that when I leave i am no longer able to communicate with the people that I know and love. I know that it won't be this hard the whole time that I am down here once I've made some friends down here and we can go do stuff together. Right now though, it isn't very much fun. I'm coming back to Spanish pretty quickly and it's getting a lot easier to talk and to understand and it is slowly feeling more natural, by the time I go back home there will have been blog posts that I probably wrote half of in Spanish before I realized that it was in the wrong language and that it needs to be in English, but that's part of the fun. The campus isn't small by Mexico City standards but to me it's a little bit small. It has four greenhouses, an office building, a building with one classroom in it, Jeremi's House (The director of the Academy here), a field with trees around the outside, and a bunch of dorms that can hold about 60 people in bunk beds. I still don't know how good the water here is, because I still haven't drunk any of it, cause i'm not particularly looking forward to Montezuma's Revenge, although it is probably inevitable, but I am doing pretty good so far. We do have hot water for showers, which is a huge plus and plenty of electricity so it's not like I don't have those normal things, but it definitely is different.
    The food is going to take some getting use to for sure. I've never been a big horchata fan, but they have it for like every other meal here and absolutely love it. So I guess i guess i'm going to have to come to love it as well. They also love limes with EVERYTHING! any food that they have, they have to put limes in it, whether it's spaghetti, tacos, burritos, or even cereal. Yeah they love their limes. They also told me that I'm going to love it pretty soon too and understand why they love it so much, they told me that everyone that comes down here always ends up loving it tons.
   It hasn't been very busy these last couple days so i have had a lot of free time, which hasn't been very good, because it kinda leaves me really lonely and wanting back home, but once the students get here on Monday it is supposed to be a whole lot busier and I think it will get a whole lot better for me.
    I dunno if i'm quite as excited now as I was before coming down here, because all of a sudden it is very very hard. I know that I'll be able to do it though. I know that with with God's help, and with everyone down here's help that it'll work out really well, and that overall this will be a really great experience for me. Coming in I think I was a little big cocky, thinking oh yeah, hard schmard I can do this, I'll just pound it out and go back home, now I'm kinda realizing that this isn't a six minute wrestling match where you go as hard as you possibly can for six minutes, it is three months of constant work and improvement and learning. This will definitely be a life changing experience