August 23rd 2009
On this day we all departed from our families. We had breakfast and then headed to the buses to be taken to either the airport or the bus station (for me and some others it was the bus station). We got there and waited for a few hours until our bus would take us to our places (3 other kids and myself we’re on the same bus to Guadalajara, but they were placed in Colima, Jalisco). We were on that bus for about 7 HOURS!! On that bus ride I made two more friends with kids I hadn’t talked with during the camp (a guy from Germany and a girl from Norway). I was happy though that one of my New Zealand friends was on this bus ride. Once we arrived in Guadalajara, we went got in a taxi to take us to this little outside patio restaurant called “Las Sombrillas” and let me tell you this, YOU HAVEN’T DRIVEN UNTIL YOU’VE DRIVEN IN MEXICO! There’s like NO rode rules really. Not a lot of lines on the street, people ALL over the place, honking none stop, make what we would call “Illegal turns” because there’s cars that might turn right, but they’re like 4 lanes over from spot were it would be safer to turn. Pedestrians do NOT have a right of way, don’t think that just because you’re able to cross the street that a car will stop for you, because they most likely won’t. After awhile at Las Sombrillas, my host family showed up there! So I went my separate way from the others. We came to their home and I was shown around a bit then I went to bed.
The End.