Re-post from Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:12:11 -0700 (PDT)

Finished my classes on thursday. I think that I did OK in my courses, but I don´t know if I will ever find out the marks because I was not taking them for credit.

Thursday night was interesting, started out drinkin at a little tiny corner pub that charged about 60cents US a beer. Then we went to a Kareokee bar, and I rocked the place, we stayed there until about 1:00 and went to anothe bar called wall street until 3:00 and then to a Salsa Club until about 5:00, and then to another bar/restraunt until 7:00, and then for breakfast until 9:30.

The salsa club was fun, I walked by a table with tres mujeres at it, and they were totally checking me out, so I sat down with them ... they didn´t speak a word of english, but in my broken spanish, I was able to have about a 20 minute conversation (drunken of course) with them ... turns out that one of them was celebrating here 46 cumpleanos, and one of them was her daughter, and the othe was her daughters amiga. So, I went out on the dance floor with the 46 year old, and it turns out that she was a dance instructor .... Fuck did she ever make me look good at dancing, we rocked. After that, we went to some mariachi restraunt/club with 4 canadian girls, and about 5 mexican guys ... I started talking with a cuban girl who lives in toronto , we ended up getting along pretty well, and went out for breakfast together after the bars closed.

Friday went to San Blas, which is a small surfing/fishing/tourist town. got there at about 9:00 PM, and there was nothing to do, so me an my buddy Matt ended up hanging out at the local pool hall for a few hours, and crashing pretty early at about 1:00. Woke up Saturday morning, and headed to the beach to do some surfing. Met some Americana chiquitas and talked to them for a bit, and then went surfing .... I went out for about 2 hours, and was able to ride 2 waves in ... it is a pretty good work out ... the surf board and waves beat the shit out of me a couple of times, but it was damn fun. My feet are all cut up now thought, and they are in pain. After that, we talked to some Mexican chiquitas on the beach, and they ended up giving us a ride to the hotel in the shittiest piece of shit car I have ever seen, or been in. It had license plates from California (US), and the girl told us that the plates are illegal, but because her dad is in the military, they can`t do anyt! hing to her for it.

After that, went to the hotel and had a siesta for a few hours, then hit the ¨club¨ it was actually pretty happening, it turns out that Sabado is the big day in San Blas for going out. The washroom in this bar was pretty damn funny ... there is a big trough along the wall to piss on, and there was one stall, ... the only thing about the stall is that the toilet had been completeley smashed off , and there was basically a hole in the floor with broken pieces of porcelan sticking out of it ... well people were using it, so I did too .... turns out that it wasn´t water all over the floor in the bathroom. We started talking to some mexicans, so after the bar closed, we got invited to go drinking with them, so we all piled into the back of this tiny truck about 10 of us, and drove into some shit hole of a neighbourhood to buy beer. We got there, and there was about 3 drunk mexican machos hanging around the store just sitting on the sidewalk getting drunk. One of them walked up t! o me and says (jadsjfklad jfaסkds jadjf ajסfad afd Pesos) .... well, i didn´`t understand what he was talking about, so I just said ¨No Gracias¨ (No thank you), actually, I thought that he wanted to fight me, but what he was saying was give me your pesos. Well, I didn´t , and we ended up leaving that place, and going to the beach and drinking until 5 AM. It was pretty fun, and was good practice for my spanish.

Left San Blas for Peurto Vallarta yesterday, and got here without any idea where I was going to stay .... so , I took a cab to the Sheraton, but it was $120 per night, and there was an all inclusive resort next door for 140 per night (called blue bay getaway which is the same resort that I stayed in in Cancun). It is really nice, and the food is awesome (way better than the one in cancun). Ended up meeting a bunch of fucked up canadians, as well as a group of mexican girls last night. We stayed on the beach until 6:00 AM playing guitar, drinking, and singing. Turns out that 2 of the canadian guys have already seen a mexican prison last week ... they were drunk, and tried to rip down a palm tree ... apparently the mexicans don´t like foreigners doing that. They ended up spending about 12 hours in jail, and payins 300 US each, but made it away OK, aparently they were very close to being sent to Mexico city jail for a week thought, but somehow the consulate helped them. 2 othe! r canadian guys were searched for drugs while they were walking down the beach ... I was offered pot last night but I declined due to my lack of desire to see a mexican Jail.