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hizzy_b's Journal   You are smart and sexy! Which Ultimate Beautiful Woman are You? brought to you by Quizilla Current music: Afro-Celt sound system. Anyone home, around and un-busy in the Portland area this Friday? Current mood:  good.Current music: Something random on the radio. What is it with me and totally forgetting that livejournal exists for months at a time? Anyway, finally remembered, and started wandering through Friend entries. Thank you Larry for this quiz.
Anyway, what did you expect? 7th week of term is over. Agh. Can I run away now? Taking four classes next term and it will add up to 18 credits. That seems insane. ick. And yah. Enough for now. Maybe I will remember livejournal exists again sometime sooner rather than later. Current mood:  okay.Current music: My roommate on the phone. I finally remembered livejournal existed. I thought this was fun. It seems I am studying the right things, which is nice to know.
Current mood: good.Current music: Collective Soul. I'm alive. Really. Also back from Mexico for all of four days. Need to go to sleep now. Hope to see people before I leave again if anyone is still around. I have been mostly without computer access, so haven't kept up with livejournal posts. Will look more tomorrow. I have been up since 2am pacific time. Sleep now. Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIRE! Yes. Goodnight. Current mood:  sleepy.Current music: Something by Modest Mouse. Hello from Morelia, Mexico, Today marks the beginning of the second week of my stay here in Mexico, and I have been thoroughly enjoying myself so far. I am remembering more and more of my buried spanish, but I still have moments when I accidentally slip into german. It makes people look at me like I'm crazy, not that most of you don't already think that about me anyway. On Thursday we went on a walking tour of downtown Morelia. We refers to the entire group that is in the exchange program at UNLA (Universidad Latina de America) right now. There are people from Oregon, Washington and Michigan, with maybe one person from California. The group is made up of three programs. A three week program for educators, and two six week programs: The language and culture program I am participating in, and a nutrition program that includes some fieldwork finding out about the diets of one of the communities outside Morelia. (There are about 1.2 million people living in and around Morelia.) So, back to the walking tour. We got to see the Cathedral in the center of Morelia where they light off fireworks every Saturday night (I haven't gotten to see it yet, but I still have time). We also saw a hotel in downtown Morelia that has the ceiling of what was a courtyard in the original building when it was a house, covered in tiffany stained glass. The courtyard was sealed over decades ago (or more) but the stained glass is within twenty years or so and they are very proud of it. The group also got to see the city library, which was built a couple CENTURIES ago, and is still in use. They have some VERY old books in there, and most of them can still be read today (though seeing some of them would require paperwork that would take longer than most people have left to live.) From there we got to go see a couple old convents and monasteries. Some have been turned into schools or government offices, at least one is a museum, and another is a music conservatory. It is interesting to see all the different architectural styles and the way they continue to use the old buildings. One building has murals all around the upper floor around a courtyard, telling the history of mexico, Michuacan (the state Morelia is in) and Morelia itself. These were commissioned by one of the first Mexican presidents as a way to try to educate the populace that could not read or write. Yesterday (Saturday), the group of us got to go on one of the two excursions that the school has planned for us (most of us thought that there would be more, so there is talk about going to Mexico City and/or the Beach on some of the weekends when there is nothing else planned.) Yesterday's excursion left from UNLA at 8am, and we didn't get back until 8:15pm. (It was a very long day.) We went to Tinsunsan (and no, I am not sure of the spelling) where we got to see ruins of Indian step pyramids and temples. I have pictures, which I will send to anyone who wants them, once I figure out how to get them off the camera and onto the computer. (So far, they either will not notice that the camera is hooked to the computer, or say that I need an installation disk. I will keep trying.) We then went and saw churches which include extremely bloody crucifixes and some beautiful paintings. They are doing quite a lot of restoration work to the outsides of the churches, which includes restoring the original 16th century paintings that were on the outside and have since been covered by more recent paint. We then had time to look around the markets. Lots of work with straw, some cloth and a lot of REALLY cool ceramics. I would have bought an insane amount (very cheap, ie. cool mugs for $0.50 American) if I had any hope of getting it home safely. They also had cool tablecloths that reminded me of the one my mom bought from Mama Row (however that store is spelled). From Tinsunsan we drove to Patzucarro where we saw another cathedral, some very funny folk dancing, and a museum showcasing the different handcrafts made in the region. We then waked through a market which included a lot of (somewhat) fresh seafood, the smell was appalling, and tons of other stuff. In Patzucarro I bought myself a cool, red, long-sleeved shirt with some embroidery. From there we went to Santa Maria de Cobri (Saint Mary of the Copper). As you can guess from the name, there was a lot of copper. By this time though, everyone was exhausted so we didn't stay very long. We did get to watch them work on some big copper pots though, which was cool. They would heat the copper up in a pit fireplace, kept hot with bellows. Then, when the copper was red hot, one man would take it out of the pit with tongs, and hold it on an anvil while four other men got around to hit it wit sledgehammers. They got into a rhythm so that the hammers hit one right after the other so that they could get the most shaping in before the copper cooled enough that it needed to go back into the fire. It was amazing to watch. They said that even medium sized pans take about 20 hours to make. I hope everything is going well in Oregon, or wherever you are reading this from. I am having a lot of fun here. (I appologize for not putting this under a lj-cut, but I am not sure how, and don't really have time to look it up.) Current mood: good.Current music: Spanish TV (my host family is watching). Hello everyone who gets to update livejournal with the prompts in english. If something looks strange, it is because all the prompts are in spanish, and, as most of you know, I do not speak spanish. Also, the keyboard is slightly strange, with ñ where I expect a semicolon. Other things are strange as well. So far, mexico has been interesting. I am living with a host family, and they speak about as much english as I speak spanish. In other words, not much. We can communicate needs, and use the dictionary a lot, but no really stimulating conversations. Today was orientation and classes start tomorrow. I will be home for about four days starting August 26, (I think . . .) so we need to plan something for that time. I am not quite sure when I will be able to access the internet, but it looks like it will be at least every three days or so. I hope everything is going well in Oregon. I look forward to being around people I can understand again. That is all for now, as I need to go catch a combi (very small bus). Current mood: overwhelmed.Current music: People speaking Spanish. I just realized that laughter and daughter are only one letter apart. This is rather strange. I typed laughter and then stared at it for too long, and it stopped looking like it was spelled correctly. (Anyone else do that? Look at a word so long it stops making sense?) I decided that it no longer looked like laughter, but like daughter with an 'L'. Then I realized that it WAS daughter with an 'L' instead of a 'D'. I realize that this is a rather strange thing to find enjoyable, but I thought it was rather cool, so decided to share it with my f-list. Go ahead an laugh at the silly person. Current mood: silly.
Ummm yes. I am still alive. I was wondering if there was anything planed for the fourth, or if people are like me and just realizing that it is three days away. If there is nothing else going on, I can host something here. My brother and some of his friends will be setting of some (possibly Washington-legal) fireworks, so there should be at least a bit of a show. There is also the ability to see about 12 different fireworks displays from the roof, though they are quite small and distant. If anyone is interested it could be potluck snacks or something. Anyone interested? Current mood: hopeful.Current music: DMB- Grey Street. I found this quiz thank's to my next year roommate Jenny (ladyravenclaw). I thought it was funny, and true. Maybe. Or at least enough.  You are water. You're not really organic; you're neither acidic nor basic, yet you're an acid and a base at the same time. You're strong willed and opinionated, but relaxed and ready to flow. So while you often seem worthless, without you, everything would just not work. People should definitely drink more of you every day. Which Biological Molecule Are You? brought to you by Quizilla So yah, Jenny and I will be living in McNary 615. I decided I liked McNary and didn't want to give it up. The 6th floor will be good for the walking up stairs exercizeness, and the fact that a lot of cool people will be living there next year. There is even talk of T-shirts, which would be fun. Now the decision to get one large enough to sleep in, or small enough to be at least marginally fashionable. Hmmmm.... Okay, I will go back to doing homework now. Current mood: calm.Current music: Al Green - Gospel Greats. |
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