September 19th 2009
Today was a pretty good day I have to say. This morning I took the train to downtown so I could go to this language school and take a test and see what spanish level class I can take. I could have taken a bus to Chapultapec from the station, but I decided to walk. And that was about a 20 block walk by my estimate! I could only remember Chapultapec from the bus, but never walked there before from the train station so I thought I got lost, but I didn't! I asked for directions and I was going the right way! Once I got to Chapultapec, I walked a couple blocks until I got to Chapultapec and Av. Hildalgo. I found the school and took the test. I felt pretty confident on it because I knew almost everything on it, except a could questions I wasn't sure what it was asking me to do, but for the most part I think I got ALOT of them right! When I was done I headed back to the train station, but this walk seemed ALOT shorter than my walk there! So I came home and watched SELENA on DVD and then later my host father and I went to one of his little cousins or nieces birthday party. It was nice, there was at the outskirts of town and it was like kind of a small farm because there were goats and chickens in there (but gated up). I was feeding the goats! Then I sat down and visited with his family members that I met before, and they don't speak english at all so I was using my limited spanish. :) There was a karaoke machine that has the music already programed into it and there was alot of music, it was like a karaoke machine and a plain music player because there were ALOT of music albums on there that weren't karaoke. A couple of my host fathers Aunts went to it and did alot of karaoke. EVEN I DID SOME KARAOKE!! The only karaoke I did was Selena! Mainly because thats the only karaoke on there that I knew! haha.. But I got up and sang to Selena! It was pretty fun! I enjoyed that. When we were going to leave, we were going to take his Aunts to the train station and as we were leaving, outside there was a guy that was getting the heck beat out of him! I was kinda scared at that moment because these people were drunk and this guys face was bloody. :( I don't know where these people came from because I didn't see a bar near by, but its more violent outside of the city. I am so fortunate to live in a neighborhood that is quite and safe. Nobody really bothers you if you walk home at night, and there's usually still alot of people, even children, out at night after 9pm! But that's the only thing that scared me was seeing that guy getting beat up over there. I guess that goes to show you what could happen when people are drunk when you mess with them. For the most part though, I believe that I will always be safe and won't have to worry about being in that kind of situation.
The End.