Mexico city

Time to see Soraya in mexico city!!! Ok umhh well after two hours standing 100metres next to each other we finnaly found each other. They gave the wrong information on the television, so i was waiting at gate 3 and she got out 2. So after some internetting and really a lot of luck we found each other. Then we waited another 5hours in the airport because Saul was gonna pick us up. Offcourse we had a lot to talk about, so that wasnt that bad.
Saul and his family were really nice, and they live in a huge house, so we had a fantastic week. The first two days we were in Acopulco. We stayed in a nice hotel, all inclusive. So after three weeks in hostels it was quite nice to have some luxury again. The first night we went to this amasing discotheque. We were quite intimidated, because we werent really used of that. It had a view over the whole city. The next day we went to a salsabar, where Saul learned us some salsa. Well he tried, if he wasnt busy fighting with his girlfriend ( really jealouse because we stayed at his plays for a week en because he wanted to learn us salsa).
Then Mexico city.. we went to the centre for one day. Saw the churches, monuments, buildings, ... Most of the stuff was closed but it was nice to see it on the outside. And because of the flue it wasnt really busy on the streets. I cant really tell u what we did day by day because i kinda forgot. In general we just slept in every day, because we stayed up till four every night watching movies, we chilled a lot, we tried to find stuff thats open, we had long long lunches, ... Yeah that was a thing we really got to get used to. We were soooooooo hungry at times because they eat so late! We didnt really see a lot of mexico city because everything was closed, but living in a mexican family we learned a lot about the country. Saul told us a lot about it and the mexican mentality(which he doesnt always likes) and we tried a lot of mexican food. Ok, i ate cactus, quesadillas with fungis, worms and pigskin.. The first two i really liked, the other two were mhmm just to try it :-) and i know im not supposed to eat pigskin, but it was just to try it. Just like i tried beef in a bag in Canada :-) (didnt swallow that dough, discusting!) ohh and the worms.. mhh that was difficult because i dont eat meat, i do eat fish, but where do i put worms?? :-)
Yesterday he invited some of his friend to have a barbecue. Well mexican barbecue, quite different. Its just a lot of beef, special unions, cactus and tortillas. Quite boring he if u compare it tro our barbecue. But we had a lot of fun. His friends were really nice. I was kinda afried when i heard one of them was a nazi... im open for everyone, but thats kinda an exception. But he was actually a really nice guy and we talked about it for a while, and yeah we didnt got into a fight, ill put it that way.
So today Soraya flew back to Canada, and me to Merida. Im taking a bus tomorow to playa del carmen to spend my last days there. For now it wont be a problem to get into Belgium, but ill just have to wait and see. Tomorow im gonna call Connections, if its possible to maybe get an earlier flight, but i doubt it..

Puebla

pfffff, its been wayyy to long. have no idea where to begin...
Ok mhh i think puebla. Yeah ok puebla is really pretty! the girl in my hostel recommended to take the tourbus. That was a good idea, because its quite a big city. In the afternoon the weirdest thing happened. I was drinking a coffee, when a guy asked me if he could write me a poeme. After it i could choose if i gave him some money or not. So i let him do it. It was a pretty bizar poeme so i asked for explanation, and so i ended up talking to him for two hours. Then i joined him to the theatre where he was practising for a play. Too bad i couldnt understand a word because its looked quite interesting, about the conquest of Mexico by Cortes. At night i met some people from Marocco in the hostel. I went out with them to a real mexican bar. So that was quite the experience offcourse, being the only tourists there. The next day i went to Cholula with the bus. But i was so tired i didnt get off:-) I planned to dough, i wanted to see the ruines, but since i didnt have a clue where to get off, and the bus drove through the whole city so i could see all the nice churches and buildings, i decided to do another tour on the bus. At night i went to dinner with the people from Marocco. (ps. learned a lot about marrocan culture)

Oaxaca

Ok.. have to write a lot again. But actually thats a good sign. If i dont write a lot that means im meeting a lot of people here and i just dont find the time to write.
Arrived In Oaxaca at seven in the morning. After a nap i discovered the town a bit. Mhmmm its wasnt like Chiapa de corzu or san christobal. I didnt fell in love with it :-) U have a really nice park here in the middle of the town where there is a lot to do, and then u have some beautifull churches. But next to that i dont really like it. Its big, busy and a bit dirty. it suprised me, because people i met were always talking about Oaxaca in superlatives. At night i went to have dinner with three girls i met in the hostel. Susanah and Inta from Denmark and Katty form Germany.
Yesterday i did an excursion. We started with Tula, that a cute village where there is a really old tree (2000years old). Not the oldest in the world dough, there are threes of 3500 and 4000years too. (i know, guidetalk..). Then we went to see how they make the traditonal carpets. That was really interesting. And everything was explaned in English and Spanish. The guide kept making fun of me since i was the only one that didnt understand spanish. In the beginning he was like, ohh no espangol?? Well teach u today. And then with everything he said he was like, ok sarah how much procent did u understand?
After that we went to Mitla, which are ruines of an Aztek village. I really enjoyed that since it was with a guide. I visited Tulum and Palenque without a guide, which is way cheaper but it is nicer with a guide. But now i changed one of my books for one about mexico, so i can just read the information. Then it was time for lunch. Probably one of my favorit moments. Noo not because we can eat :-) (well yeah, everyone knows i love eating, so maybe a bit for that aswell...). But when it was time for lunch i allready met most of the people in the bus, and everyone was getting along. So at lunch everyone sat toghether and was talking. There were people from Germany, Argetinie, France, Mexico, Italy and Yeahhh Canada!! So put that toghether and u have some really interesting conversations. I especially got along with a nice couple from Canada, Nick and Yvonne. She is Mexican, they met each other in Mexico and now there living in Canada. Its weird because he was 42, she was 35 and still we bonded immediately. After lunch we visited Hierve el aqua and a Mezkal Factory. Mezkal is a typical Oaxaca drink and its almost the same as tequila. But its like champagne, only the drink produced in champagne can call itsself champagne. So only the drink in tequila can be called tequila and only the drink in oaxaca can be called mezkal. We tried some different kinds, but i didnt really like it. In the bus back, the canadian couple asked me if i wanted to join them for dinner. We went to a really nice restaurant. It looked like really expensive, and the menu was a lot different that what u normally get in the restaurants here. It was a bit more expensive than what u normally pay here, but it was so wurt it. And in the end, if u change it to euro... U had lamb chops for 12euro and tunafilet for 7euro. And the quality was like the better restaurants in belgium. Plus It was the first restaurant ive been were they had decent wine. So it was a good night :-) And now i have a place to stay in Toronto ive i ever go there.
Today im going to Monte Elban, which are also ruines and tonight im taking the bus to Puebla.
Ok i think that was it :-)

Paardje rijden

Yesterday i met some other people in the hostel. Two girls from England and two guys from Germany. We went to have a drink toghether in the evening. It was fun, but i didnt make it to late because i was going on a horsebackriding excursion today!

Its been a while since ive been on a horse, so i was a bit intimidated in the beginning. Surtenly because Mike en Eilien, a couple from Austria, are quite experienced and wanted to run once in a while. But after a while i got the hang of it again. And my horse was really really lazy so it didnt go to fast.

It was a lot of fun. Just we, our guide, four horses and nature. No other tourists, no people trying to sell us stuff, ... We went to some hotsprings. We could swim there, but we looked at our guide as off he was nuts. In this weather, swimming in a hotspring?? So he laughed and took us to the river to swim, which was much better!

In the afternoon i saw Matti and Maija again, and we went swimming in there swimmingpool, because they moved to a hotel. We went for dinner aswell and then it was time to say goodbye because they were taking off. So now everyone has left, and im the only one left in the hostel...

But luckilly im going tomorow aswell.

Baby on board

Yesterday i arrived in Puerto Escondido. After a 14hour drive on a bus, with a baby on board... yeah and we were driving in the mountains, and since kids ears are really sensitive, i dont have to tell u how difficult it was trying to sleep. i felt really sorry for its parents actually. Thank god for Chris his ipod, what prevented me of going totally nuts.
ok Now about puerto escondido. Well i think i fell with my bum in the butter, like we say it :-) Thanks to my roommates in San Christobal i found the cutest hostel right on the beach. So i fall asleap and wake up with the sound of the waves. the owners are really friendly but a little bit nuts.
I met two people from Finland, Maya and Matty, brother and sister. She is studying in Belgium. We went out for dinner yesterday and then to a monday-party in an other hostel. It was fun. Well i kinda ruined the images mexican have from belgium girls now, since ive said to quite a bit that we dont dance with other guys if we have a boyfriend. There were like, but its only dancing?? and i was like yeahh we rared conservative belgium people he. So so far canadians think we are boring because i refused to have shots, and now mexican people think the same because we dont dance :-) doing gooood. Ohh and everywhere u go here its happy hour, all night! So that was good, because we all needed some drinks before we had the guts to join the outgoing mexicans on the dancefloor.

Easter in San Christobal de Las Casas

I had a new roommate yesterday. A girl from Madrid, really nice. Talked some yesterday, had breakfast toghether, then went to the market. I took advantage of the situation of shopping with someone that knows spanish and could negociate for me. Bought some souvenirs, earrings, ... It was really funny, we had been talking for ages, and we really got along. I thought she was older then me but like 24 or something. It turns out she is 36, and she still hasnt settled down.
She going to Puerto Escondido to tonight but with the bus of ten oclock, so maybe ill see her again there. In the meanwhile im escaping from the town because it is soooo crowded because o Easter. Really people everywhere, there is a big parade. Kinda like "den oogsstoet" maar beetje groter dan. :-)

PS: the kids here are sooo cute!

Cascadas el Chiflon

So i asked the boss of my hostel if he could recommend me a nice trip in the neighbourhood, not too far because i have to drive 12hours tomorow. He said that the Cascadas el Chiflon are really beautifull, two hours away. So ok off i went. It was two hours in the main bus, but he forgot to mention that i had to take enother bus for an hour and then one of those little cars for half an hour. So i travelled 3.5hours going and back today to see an hour of waterfalls.. But as u can see on the picture it was wurth it. Waterfalls are also the favorite place to go on holiday for the mexicans i think. Because here and in Aque azul it was really crowded. While i was in the busstation i also asked for a ticket to Oaxaha tomorow. For once im not lucky (so far i was always lucky there is room for me in busses, hostels, ... because im travelling alone). The busses are full, so i decided to go to Puerto Escondido first, en do Oaxaha later. My roommate yesterday told me it is very beautifull there and much better then Veracruz.

clean clothes and jehovas witnesses :-)

Tonight i have clean clothes again! mhmm that will be nice. Clothes without mangospots on it :-) I paid 35 pesos for it, thats like 2euro. yeah its really cheap here. Ive been walking around with two notes of 500pesos for ever, because nobody wants to take them, if i tell u that that is aproximately 30euro, u now how cheap it is here e. This morning i went for a walk and i met two girls. They started to talk to me, suddenly about the bible, and then it hit me, they were jehovas witnesses. I know everyone thinks they are annoying, but i had never talked to one, so i thought it was quite interesting actually. We had a nice conversation, and she was really happy she was the first one to talk to me about it:-)
After a long long walk i finally found my hostel, its a really nice one, like i suspected. Now am discovering the town. But first i wanted to put my photos up! :-) because i finaly found a way to do it.

Me like Las Christobal de las Casas

Fell in love again, now with Las Christobal de las Casas. It is a big city but with the charmes of a small one.


















I think ill stay here for a while. Once ive seen the city i can do some tours aswell that start here. On the bus going there i met 6 nice french people. They sopposed to be with seven so they had booked a room for seven. So they asked me if i wanted to join them. So now i am in a really nice hotel for 178pesos.















Tomorow im going to a youth hostel again, they sopposed to be really good here. So we went for a stroll in the town, and then had some dinner. It was nice, nice people, but since there french and ok i speak it a bit, but understanding youth slang french is quite different. There going out now, but i passed, since i allready spent more then usually on the room and dinner. I prefer then to have some fun tomorow night in the youth hostel with drinks we just buy in the store. Ahh and i saw Ernesto and Yesenia again! That was a coincidence, just on the street.

Tuxtla

Just got back from Tuxtla. Coming from Chiapa de Corzu, which is the smallest town ever, i was suprised to see that Tuxtla is a really big one. A richer one too.














I visited the cathedral de san marcos, parque jardin de la Marimba and provincia de los zoques.














i really liked the parque, so i sat down to read a bit, yeah a bit... its like everytime i go sit somewhere to read, someone thinks its really necessary to come sit with me and talk. Im kinda getting tired of it. Especially like ive said, they dont speak english and i dont speak spanish. Its like they just dont believe i dont understand them. Its getting to a point were im not that friendly anymore to the people here, and i dont like that side of me. But they just wont leave, they stay and talk. so i have to leave everytime with an excuse. but i dont want to go, because i like the spots i choose to sit down!
well hopefully it will be better in can christobal, since a lot of backpackers go there, the people there will be used of seeing foreigners. Because two days here, being almost the only one. The people (all of them. kids, men, women) stare at me like im form mars.

Cañon del Sumidero

This morning we took a boottrip to cañon del Sumidero. it was beautifull but really really cold on the boat.
After that Ernesto and Yesenia wanted to go to the zoo and the pyramids and were gonna stay there to camp. i preferred to stay in chiapa de corzo another day. Yesterday we didnt really have the time to explore the whole town, and i wanted a little brake aswell. Just relaxing, read a bit, because it is still a long time before i have to be in mexico city. Next to that one of my legs has been sore for two days, so it wanted some rest aswell.
Tomorow im gonna go to Tuxtla, that a little town not that far away from here, then to the waterfalls of el chorreadero, and then im off to san christobal de las casas, where ernesto and yesenia will be. I have there number, so ill call them and maybe i can spend some more days with them there. It least if it is not too cold, because we stopped there on our way to Chiapa, and it was freezing. Since i dont really have the right clothes for that with me(seeeee my canadian clothes would have been usefull here! :-)) i would go to Veracruz then, and maybe do San Christobal on my way back. a month later, maybe better weather then.

ps: nobody speaks english here, so that has lead to some funny "conversations" where i try everything, little bit spanish-bodylanguage-my book, ... luckilly im allready capable of asking the usual: for a room, bus, food, .. things like that. but they like to talk so much e. and if i say no hablo espagnol. they just dont bother, they keep talking.
AND being with ernesto and yesenia has really made it clear that they rip us so off! they buy a bracelet for 5pesos, me for 20. well its not that we can blame them e, life here is surtenly not expensive for us.

Palenque, Aqua Azul and Chiapa de Corzo

This is the downside of not having internet every where e, now i have to write loads!

Ok, 12hours in the bus.. didnt really sleep a lot, but it was ok. Arrived in Palenque at four in the morning. Dont wurry, didnt go wondering of to find a hostel. Just took a cab and asked him. So after a three hour sleep, i was ready to go to the ruins of palenque. In the bus going there i met a mexican guy and girl, and they asked if i wanted to join them. There were really nice, he spoke a little bit of english, she didnt. But we managed to have some communication. We had a lot of fun, especially with me falling all the time. After a while they started counting it. (in the end i won with 8 against 4 and 5). Palenque was amazing, to my opinion, nicer then Coba and Tulum. If its better then Chitzen Itza, i still have to find out, but i think so. Since me and Ernesto and Yesenia were getting along fine, they asked me if i wanted to join them camping. (there were bagpacking for a week) Since i didnt have any stuff to camp and i allready paid for my room in the hotel i was doubting, but they convinced me. I was really touched actually because it was Yesenia that was pushing me, although we dont understand each other at all.

So we got back to town, took my stuff and went to Aqua Azul, witch are waterfalls.

They were amazing! We put up the tent, went swimming, had some empanadas, and made a walk to the waterfalls. Sleeping was horrible, because we only had a blanket to sleep on, but it was ok for one night. I was actually godsmacked about the hospitality of these people. No problem sharing there thent, sleeping bag and food with me. That this trip was gonna be really basic i new, the luxury here is what i see outside and the people i meet.

It rained al night, so in the morning we had to wait untill the tent was dry. Then we took off to Chiapa de Corzu, a town i fell in love with. A really mexican town, were all the people live on the street and where there is musica everywhere. We looked for a hostel and then went for a walk.

There is a lot going on in this town. There was music in the park, in our hostel. We bought some vodka and it was really funny how we reacted on it. Yesenia started to cry for her boyfriend, Ernesto started to talk and talk and talk till i had a headache, and i just laughed with the situation:-)

Wiiiii, im leaving in an hour and 45minutes. Its a 12hour drive to Palenque. Hope ill be able to sleep on the bus. Thought of getting online for the last time before i go because i dunno when ill have internet again. So dont be worried if u dont here from me for a couple of days. ive been doing really good so far e, putting up a message every day.

Umhh what to tell.. ahh yesterday i had a really nice evening. didnt make it to the bar to meet up with the australiens. Stayed at the hostel with the people there. way cheaper too! there was people from germany, argentinie, canada, england, finland, .. it was really interesting, talking to them.

ok, byebye!

Cozumel.

Im in Cozumel!

Well its not that great here. Im in town now, and it just sooo touristic. Really u now u are in a place where lots of americans come, if they have a roltrap-moving stares :-) in there mc donalds. The other side is soposed to be good, but u have to rent a scooter or car to get there.
the youth hostel im in is good.

not as good as the other one, but i cant complain. AND everyone talks to each other. im starting to get used to it. like every time u see someone start a conversation.
So i decided not to stay here. Going back to playa tomorow to get the bus to Palenque. im kinda fed up with this touristic stuff. Ready to go explore real mexico. Ill do the diving when i get back. that way i now how much money i have left. rather dont do too big payments allready.
ok im off, having a beer with some australiens. made the mistake of telling them belgium is a beer country and that we can handle quite some. now they think i can...... :-)

patience my dear

I think, when tis trip is over, ill have learned to be really really patience. i wake up here at six every morning. So around 6h35 i went to look for breakfast. When im in cozumel, ill buy some food to put in the refridgerator, since im gonna stay there for a while. But for know i just go somewhere for breakfast, its like 5euro for a really nice buffet. So they open at seven, but here offcourse that is 7h25.
And now im waiting till it is a decent hour to call Jon, thats a friend of a friend of my cousin, thats gonna keep my luggage. He went out yesterday, so asked me to call him not to early. En then im finally ready to start my trip! as u can see im a bit bored waiting thats why im boring u with useless information :-)

Getting better...

Today was a good day, i enjoyed it! checked in in a youth hostel. i think a really nice one. hope there all like that, because that is what i will stay in now. it was 140pesos, thats like 9dollars. I made a budget today and i think ill make it till the 16th of june, and still have some money left (without using my saving account offcourse).

So Tulum today, was amasing. Learned some spanish on the bus. Than tried to get in for free, didnt work. :-) Ok, visiting Tulum with a guide is better, but also more expensive... now i just read the information boards, and tried to listen to the guids i passed. I was nice and much more cheaper. the beach there was unbelievable. I just walked through it, in the beginning, and i lost my flipflop, the waves were that strong. i met a nice couple of americans that took a picture.

i actually really like to be alone here, and do my own thing, and when i want i meet people. and now being in youth housed in maybe even meet girls, because for a change, they are friendly!!

BIG NEWS!

I quite my job. I was sick of it. To tell it short. I dont like working in Mexico, prefer working in Belgium and then come here to travel and spend my saved money. So that is what im gonna do now. Today i did lots and lots of walking, my feet are killing me. i was looking for a tourist office to ask for a storagehouse or something to leave my luggage. The mexicans sent me everywhere, at the end i luckily found something. its quite expensive dough so im gonna try to put it with a friend of my cousin that lives here. So possible ill have to stay here another day, than i would go to tulum tomorow. If not ill go to Cozumel, thats an island 30minutes away from here, very good to dive. im gonna do an open water dive course there. that will give me a certificate, what means i can dive all over the world. After that im gonna go to San Cristobal de las Casas and Oaxaca. From there on ill see what the next step will be. My returning ticket is on the 16june, so ill probably come back home then. So Nelsie, ill have plenty of time then to save up money again to travel with u!
Yesterday was my first night out. It was fun, but super expensive. i pay the same amount for a good meal as for two beers. Well im glad ive been out here once, but its not really neccesairy for me. I prefer to go have a drink, and an early sleep.

PS: In August Chris is propably coming to Belgium! So have lots to look forward too!
PS: Starting to really miss u...

was so nice to see Amedee!

So i have my luggage back, thats a good thing. Today i didnt went to another resort yet, surpise surpise. Pff dont know if ill ever get used to this way of life. If its not today, its tomorow. And i know i know, we allready knew that about countries tike that, but that an international diving club works like that aswell.. Mhmm i dunno if ill stayu with them to be honest. Here are the facts. they lie about almost everything. So first there was the welcome lodge that doenst exists (btw why did i have to take bedclothes then???), than apparently 'the yeah u can dive and go to cozumel stuff during work hours is a total lie'. the tourists think is it weird dough that im selling divinglessons and exersions to cozumel if i dont dive and have never been to cozumel.. (more about the tourists later). Then the working permit, apparently what they say in the beginning and what they actually do is not really the same. they probably ask me in a week or two if its ok that i just buy one (illegally because that is how immigration works here), for 600-700 dollars. So i dont want to do that since im not gonna stay here that long. it wont be wurt it i think. Hopefully tomorow i get to go the the other resort, hopefully the colleages there will be better... Because if i would have to stay at the place im now, i would leave defenitely. today i met another one of the girls, and no, they are not friendly at all.
So the plan is, i wait till tomorow.. if i really like it there ill stay for a while but probably just a month till im forst to get a working permit. if i dont like it, ill look for another job. yesterday i met someone thats working in a bar, and has never used a working permit. apparently there not that strict here... They actually laugh at me when i ask about it.
today was a boring day, because red flag was out, so no diving and no work for us. just two demo's at the pool. thats nice to do, but pretty hard when u dont find people. Basicly its an 1.5hour u walk around and try to convince people to take a free diving lesson in the pool. The tourists are really nice dough. i try to talk to them like i like to be talked to when im on holiday. Try to convince them, but not to hard. u see it immediately when they dont want to do it, and then i just try to talk about something else. Ok sometimes they are really short, but most of them appreciate that u come and talk to them and are even interested in me and why im here, and those kinds of things.
oww another thing, theres also working a little fat spanish girl at our desk, totally not friendly. She only speaks spanish. And today she asked me if i speak spanish and i said no, and than she said in spanish but i understood "pff who nowadays doesnt speak spanish??" that was one of the moments here i had to count to ten. Quite some nerve i would say. i speak four languages, and she speaks uhh just her motherlanguage!
tomorow more of the excitements in mexico! ciaooo

mexican adventure

yep adventure it is. Ill first tell u about tonight. my boss told me to put my stuff in the office this morning. However he forgot that when he left this night... Now im in town with no money, carts, clothes, laptop, ... There is no such thing as a welcome lodge, its just a little hotel. Really limited, but clean. They advise u to put ur expensive belongings at the desk dough, because there will be robberies. Yes yes Mexico is fun :-) I know i shouldnt tell u all this, to avoid u getting worried.. but im fine. Not superfine yet but ok.
For the rest all went pretty good. The job is nice, just have to sit at the beach, explane to and help people, and two times a day a PR goes to the beach to collect people for the demo diving in the pool. So ill think ill like doing that, once i figured everything out, because all the different diving and snorkling stuff, it is quite complicated. And its not like they explane u a lot, most of it ill have to figure out myself, there like yeah ull pick it up soon. This mexican way of dealing with things, ill have to get used to it. If it was me, it would want a full day training, so i can start Working tomorow. now i have to look to do things all the time. I even helped the dive instructors cleaning there stuff. the other pr just sits there if she hasnt got anything to do. mhmm probably because she is already here for a year, but still... ok my colleages, just like always, the guys are really friendly. One of them is staying in the same hotel for now, so he is taking care for me a bit. But the girls yeah, two of them are quite friendly, one of them is not.
Not that it really matters, because ill probably work at an other resort, a bigger one-Paradio or Barcelo, but ill still live in playa del carmen. i cant wait to find my one place. This living out of a luggage is getting a bit ennoying, well and now even more because i havent got any...
The food in the hotel isnt bad. Well for some it would be discusting :-) but they have salad en bread... its good enough to eat twice a day, and mabye sometimes at night.
In a month ill have to do an exam to see how good my languages are. I have to speak three. So ill take dutch, english and french. Not really fare because the other pr only knows english and spanish, but yeah since spanish is so important here.. ill have to do that in order to get a paper that says im a pr. Oh another thing, since i have to sell divingstuff, ill get the change doing it during work, and i also get to go on the cozumel exursion because we sell it.
i think that were the most important things. the rest ill tell tomorow if i have my laptop because this mexican keyboard is ennoying. the guy that is in my hotel is know at spanish class. Afterworths hes coming to get me to go to a bar where a lot of people are from dressel divers. Its a good thing i put my short and tshirt of this morning in my purse(thats it, ahh and my make up and camera are in there too) because otherwise i would have to go in my workingclothes, and that would be dangerous for immigration..

Sitting at the pool with Shakira in the background...

No i am not a laptop addict! I just take advantage of the fact that i have lots of time to write on my blog now, and i probably wont when i start working. That and the fact that i just love to write my experiences down, and im not tired enough to go to sleep but i dont know what else to do. (i didnt do bad dough, kept myself busy till eleven before i started up my laptop again). Said all this, i would also like to say, dont feel obligated to read all this crap :-) Ok i have my diary (thanks Nelsie) but u never know what happens to a diary(people here are just dying to steal it!), thats why i like to write most of it on this blog, because (ok internet can suddenly dissapear, but whats the change of that happening?), my blog will allways be there, and it will be a great souvenir for me. Also if u have any remarks on it, lay-out, type of letters, the fact i write huge amounts between () what makes it problably difficult to read, ., ... just call me at the .... my god, i am sooo simple, and i dont have anyone to talk too at this point except my two stuffed animals, and they dont understand my humour...
















Ok now seriously, what did i do tonight. After i finished the first part of my blog of today i went to have a bite to eat at my hotels restaurant. Its empty most of the time, and thats the way i like it. not to much staring eyes because of the fact im eating by myself. Only the waiter gave me a sad look when i said table for one. It made him treat me extra nice dough. I had fajitas with shrimps. It was really good. Really happy to see most of the restaurants have there mexican specialties also with shrimps. Ok what else, checking my diary now, yes i know, im a dork, i write in my diary when im eating so i wont forget anything...
Really funny (at least i thought so). The waiter gave me a water with a stro with the plastic still on. Oww another remark, the white wine is to this point drinkable... And the waiter told me that they always start there shift with a shot of tequila. So if i ever want to make it in this mexican world ill have to learn to drink tequila... (that was after i told him four times i wanted a glas of wine instead of a sex on the beach). I learned that a normal coffee like we drink it, is called an american coffee, the small one is an espresso. And now i have heard how tourist order (ask questions about almost everything on the menu), i understand why they have so much staff for so little people. It is just so different. Belgium has strict rules and yeah u could call it an eating culture. I used to think that is such an arrogant word, but i wouldnt know how to describe it differently. Dining here, it is just so relaxing, no wonder they dont have problems finding staff. Im starting to think we just expect too much. Here there is no such thing as waiting till the entree is finished till they serve the main course. They just serve when its ready. They have never heard of a menu (i wonder what would happen if u trie to explain them why whe have a sorbet between courses). I actually dont know what the proper word is for the dutch word menu, here a menu is like a menucard. Mom, ask Lawson please!
Being here for two days now, also made me realise that i have to learn Spanish quickly, because the people that work in the restaurants and shops, there english is really bad. i feel like im talking or explaning to a little kid. Well... starting tomorow people propably will feel the same, when they trie to explane me something in french or german :-)
ok last topic for tonight. a passage i read in my book that really got to me.
Women says to her friend: "It is wrong to base life on love. Women dont fall for that anymore. From an organisational point of view love has a lot of weaknesses."
Mhmm it made me think... It is kinda true dough. Love indeed is quite unstable (certainly the world we live in now), why would we base(kinda thinking to base is not the same as iets baseren, but too lazy to look it up) important decisions on that... Thinking that there are two types of persons. A) The romantic ones, those who think love is wurt fighting for, and make sacrifices for, and then B) those who think love is relative. Kinda wishing i was B, kinda thinking i lean more to A...:-)

Ok, think ill call it a day, because tomorow is a big day! Byeeeee. And since i write u loaaaads, write me back! Pretty pretty please??

PS: U know what i was wondering, if i would do this (coming her for such a long time) without the internet. Can u imagine us sending letters all the time... internet really does make everything much easier.