Escuela, fan clubs, y fatigue

Monday was my first day of school, I can't believe it's only Wednesday. I'm exhausted.

Mexican law school is like high school with cigarette breaks. It's not exactly the break-back Socratic method hawking stress pressure cooker that I'm used to at McGeorge. The concepts are really basic, it's just the language barrier and new legal terms that throw me off and take me a little longer to get, but I understand nearly everything in class and I've been participating in class discussions, so I'm really happy with how my Spanish is coming along!

Regardless, I'm tired. I have to wake up at 5:30 every morning to take the bus at 6:30 to get to my classes on time. I have classes straight through from 7:30-1:30, and the past couple of days I've been up until 2am doing homework, so, I feel like a zombie! There's really nothing like being on a Mexican bus at 6:30am jam packed with people going to school and work. It's unbelievable how many people are packed like sardines onto the micros, and it's incredible how much the micros feel like rollercoasters. Something else is that there are no driving rules or regulations here. Literally. In order to get your driver's license, you go to the supermarket and you buy it. Traffic lights are ignored on a regular basis, cars drive down the wrong way down one way streets, it's incredible. Dad, you'd hate it--it'd give you anxiety.

The students at the school are really fun, and I'm the only exchange student there so they're all trying to claim me as for their group of friends as soon as possible. Kindof like steal the bacon, and I'm the bacon. I have this group of 19 year old boys that follow me everywhere and always invite me out and stuff, my girlfriends here have dubbed them my groupies. It's pretty funny. I think it's just because kids here aren't used to hanging out with extranjeros, especially from California which is apparently superpadrisimo. :)

So, not much more to tell other than school's going well, I'm making fast friends and am studying hard, but enjoying myself, too. The best part is my Spanish--sometimes I don't even realize that I'm speaking or understanding it, as if the divide between the two languages is starting to crumble a bit, which is really exciting!!!