Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
Civilization

As I mentioned in my last email I have arrived in CIVILIZATION ... MEXICO!! I have been here for only two nights, and I am already liking it a lot. As soon as I arrived, I took a bus from Mexico city to Cuernavaca, which is about an hour and a half. During the bus ride, I was talking to a Mexican guy beside me for most of the ride, and he gave me his phone number to hang out (no he is not gay) ... the culture here is super friendly. Then last night I went out with students from the school, but they started to bore me, so I left by myself to go to another bar and ended up meeting some cool Mexican people, and getting two more phone numbers, one from a guy and one from a girl. I don't think that I'll have any problem meeting friends here, and I think that my spanish will improve very rapidly here since I don't mind talking to Mexican people, whereas most Cubans were just annoying.

The school here kicks ass too ... I take 3 hours of private spanish lessons, then 2 hours of conversation class, and then in the evenings they have a 2 hour lecture on Mexican art and history or they have more conversation classes which they invite Mexican students to come to ... you talk one hour in English, and one in Spanish.

I started looking for an apartment today. There was also another guy looking for an apartment as well. He is a black guy from Chicago who owns a small record company that produces rap records. ... right now he has some free time because all of his artists are in Jail for various (drug and probation) related problems, so he is spending the next 10 weeks in Mexico. ... anyway, him and I will probably rent a house together for the next 5 weeks for about $1200, which supposedly has a swimming pool and all sorts of nice things. He appears to have money, which I am guessing he got from his company ... but I am going to talk to him to make sure that he doesn't plan on selling drugs out of the house ... he seems like a good guy though.