This past weekend - Sept 27-28th

I`ll try to keep you updated and fill you in on things that I haven`t talked about from the past few weeks as well. This weekend I had fun. I went out on Saturday night with a friend from work. The place was called Oysters and we had fun dancing. Jose was actually born near Mazatlán, but grew up in Oregon. He and one of his brothers moved down here a few months ago; their mother moved back down to take care of her parents as they are aging. Anyway, Oysters is an open-air bar but with club music and lots of dancing too. I probably stayed out too late, but slept in to compensate.

On Sunday I had been invited to a party with some of my "students". That sounds weird to say, but it`s the most appropriate description, I guess. We were supposed to meet at a bus stop at 4pm, so since I`m not sure how long it will take me to get there, I leave a little earlier than I needed to. Plus when I got to the stop to pick up the bus it was there in about 30 secs rather than having to wait 5 or 10 mins for it. I arrive at the meeting spot about 15 mins early, only to find out that the meeting time has changed to 4:30pm instead. It was really hot out, but luckily there was a supermarket next to the stop, so I could walk around in air conditioning for a while. Conde finally showed up at 4:45 and Melissa and Paola at 4:55. I guess I don`t need to worry about being late next time. We had to take another bus to the party and it turned out to be someone`s birthday party. It was a small gathering of friends and we ate sebiche(?). It`s a mix of chopped up vegetables and some sort of fish with lime juice. This one was shrimp and also had some spicy peppers, so it was very spicy for me. They even commented on the spice, so you can imagine what I was feeling. One bad thing about this group is that they smoke a lot, but they at least try to be polite about it. There was also a lot of beer drinking, although not from me. We listened to music and joked around. I didn`t end of leaving until about 9:30pm, but most of them stayed out late...until after 12am (and they had morning classes). So, all in all it was a pretty good weekend.