Gringo-land

Yesterday was funnnn had a great spanish class with our teacher, Ampora- she is hilarious. Then we did our homework together and waited on the 300 level class to get out. We met a teacher from Ole Miss who is doing an exchange here at USFQ, he's teaching intensive english for the summer while a professor from USFQ is teaching spanish at Ole Miss this summer it was funny that he just automatically knew where we were from- maybe our northface jackets and pearls gave us away. After we hung out on campus for a while and the 300 class got out we decided to split up before dinner. Some of us went to Quicentro Mall again so some guys could get phones and then I went over to Sarah's house and met her very sweet host mother. We ate some dinner over there and some very fresh strawberries and got a taxi to my house where I changed really quick, talked to my family and then we jumped back in the taxi (shout out to Christian our driver) and headed to La Mariscal, the night life district.. also known as "gringo land", gringo being an endearing or offensive term for foreigner depending on who says it and in what context. We ate dinner at a place called Red Hott Chilli Pepper they had good Mexican food and played American music. The craziest part of the night had to be on our way to dinner when we bumped into a family from Jackson! And they were Ole Miss Alumns!! They told us exactly where there condo was so that we could go visit them during football season, it was hilarious and we got a big group picture with them. After dinner we went to a club called the Bungalow, notorious for travelers apparently. It was cool, 3 floors, the top one with some pool tables that we basically had to ourselves for a while. After bungalow we went to another outdoor bar that had nice big porches that you could look out at a lot of the district and just people watch. Around midnight we grabbed taxis and headed home. Apparently things dont get rowdy until around then so we will have to stick it out and stay up later here pretty soon. I'm off to breakfast school and def a siesta!