Well that was fun

Editors Note: Writing commenced around noon on Monday.

Okay, back to writing in this thing. At first this was a lot of fun (I had a lot of free time to write though), now it's kind of tedious and extremely time consuming. Oh well, it's for the good of others so I can manage this.

Last weekend: (see, I typed that much 6 hours ago, told you these things take forever to type...)

(screw it, I'm not even going to tell you when this sentence was typed.... I'm trying to get this thing written, I swear. Invitations to go watch a Manchester United soccer game and grab lunch are reallllyyyy tempting).

Yep, it is now 1am on technically Wednesday morning. Told you. So, last weekend, went out to a small pizza place that has New York style pizza near campus with some friends. Afterward I took a taxi to a restaurant called Italiani's for dinner with Israel and his two friends. After a sangria, sampling everyone elses food because I wasn't that hungry, and a bottle of Italian wine between the four of us, we decided to go to a night club/bar/patio lounge place called La Rambla. We talked, had a drink, danced and talked more until I took a friend home about 4am then walked the 4 blocks back to campus. On Saturday I woke up around 12:30pm then had a fairly lazy and unproductive day. I was waiting for a phone call around 5 that I was again going to hang with Israel and his two friends nicknamed Memo and Garza. Well around 8 I got that phone call. After a quick shower and packing I was in a car with Memo (Guillermo) to pick up Garza (Luis) and Israel from their houses/hotel rooms.
We were headed for the city of Saltillo, about 45-60 minutes (depending how fast Memo wanted to drive, we hit 170km/h at one point) SSW of Monterrey. Memo has his family home and other family members in the city  so he wanted to go visit them. We arrived to his home around 10:30, then visited with his family at his uncles house until midnight. While at his uncles home the four of us talked with Memo's cousins, sister, aunt and uncle and other family members. His uncle was grilling in the back area (basically a walled in section with no roof that had a grill and counter top outside. Had a drink, ate cactus, steak, grilled potatoes and a tostada with some wickedly hot homemade salsa. Once we left we got ready to go to a club for some fun. So, Dogma Bar as it was called, was this smaller little place with a ton of people in it. I mean packed. Pushing to get thru the crowd. But they had an awesome live band  and it was a lot of fun so there are not hard feelings. We finally left about 4am, got some tacos at one of the many taquerias catering to those coming home from the clubs. We all think that those tacos made us sick though because we all felt weird for the next couple of days. Eh, I feel fine now so okay!

The next morning was breakfast with Memo's close family, talking to his family, watching a little tv, going to meet his grandmother, getting a driving tour of the city, packing up and heading back to Tec. We stopped for some seafood and to visit Garza's family and home (oh, he is in my Mate 3 class FYI). Then I got dropped off *near* campus because there was a soccer game at Estadio Tec and the roads were jammed. In Monterrey there are 2 main soccer teams: Rayados (the unofficial Tec team), and the Tigres from another university in the city. Since the stadium is 2 blocks from housing, it was crazy. Every restaurant, shop, or place with a tv was packed with people watching the game. There was a slightly elevated police presence but I didn't see anyone get too crazy. And for the rest of the night I just laid low and talked, and did some homework.

Classes on Monday and Tuesday weren't too bad. Waking up at 8am on Monday was hard. Dozing off in my Español Lengua Extranjera 2 class, but I managed to stay awake. Yeah I didn't do a lot on Monday. Stretched. Looked at the pool, listened to my stomach growling and figured it wasn't worth it. I really need to plan my eating schedule so I can survive these fast 1000m swims with lifting afterwards. I was up late working on some DME homework which made getting up at 8am on Tuesday extreeeeemely difficult. So Tuesday was full of studying, took a 3 hr nap with transgressed into getting some tacos in front of housing because they had another "let's eat and play loud music for the hell of it" event. Fine by me!

This weekend I am going on a roadtrip with Israel to his home in Tabasco and flying back because he has a new job in the Dominican Republic and leaves in a week. So I'll probably leave Thursday after Salsa class.
Sorry I don't have any profound words or new cultural info in this post. Maybe on Wednesday I'll add another short post with, something.

I guess I'll add that I now have 3.5 pages full of typed and written notes about many things SigEp including my Fellow project and 11 (so far) Reflections to write. If any of the new Brothers are reading this, I hope that your Sigma Challenge is proving to be insightful and that you are already enjoying the hell out of your decision to join. If any old fogie SigEps are reading this, pass along my best, and you'll hopefully have a video presentation this Sunday at GB from me.

June 20th, 2010!!!! I'm so excited!!!! If you don't know, contact me separately. If you wish to join me on my endeavor, let me know. We'll talk, make a plan. *Jonatan F. RMX*

Dulces sueños