Finalmente

The scene unveils as the dark obscured clouds part in the sky and a ray of light flows down on the foreigner below; typing furiously at his computer in the little Internet cafe on the side of a busy road. The "t" sticks on the key board, now the "r," oh, and there goes the "s" too. Pressing firmly on the keys making sure the words spell out right the foreigner pours out his emotions on a web site, knowing there's family out there waiting to hear word of his travels. Unknowing the settings on the computer he naively presses the link to a myspace page, and his blog screen vanishes into cyberspace, lost forever. Frantically pressing back in the hopes of reclaiming his last hours of typing the screen pops up blank, reflecting his blank face on the white screen. "NO!" I yell and that is exactly what happens every time i try to post a blog.

Right now I'm sitting in a new comp lab that i discovered on campus in a building about a 3 min walk off the main campus. Its closer to my house which is really nice but there is currently an alarm going off every 2 seconds because the three workers behind me are trying to install a new security system that blares a loudspeaker alarm sound into your ears when the door is opened. Just as long as they don't cut the power.

Anyways, this past week has been the hardest for me by far school-wise. The classes weren't exactly hard, there was just piles and piles of homework that i lost motivation to do after 6 hours of classes a day, it just becomes too much.

This past Sunday, not yesterday the one before, we had two people... wait, no last Saturday... we had two new people arrive. The son of my host mom and an old student from Switzerland who studied here for six months last year and then went and lived in Cancun for 2 more months. Their names are Alexandra the Swiss, and Jorge. Last Sunday, Alex, Courtney, and our house mate Scott went back to Tepoztlan to climb the mountain with the pyramid on top. Since i didn't get a chance last time in was in Tepoztlan i figured it estaria vale de la pena ( would be worth it). We took a bus that went entirely too slow through the city and extremely too fast through the twisty windy what they call a highway. We arrived in Tepoztlan around 12 and started following the big blue tourist signs with the pyramid symbol on it. Through back allies and abandoned roads we climbed. Then we finally started my fateful ascent up the mountain passing the last sign of civilization which read, "Baños W.C.," and thinking nothing of my current physical state, we climbed.

The climb was not that bad at all, it was a really nice view going through the jungle up the side of a mountain. I always have though we have been disconnected from our environment because we don't walk enough. Driving everywhere really removes the distance and human condition from our mind. Anyways, the sun is just getting to its high point in the sky and the air began to heat up. Climbing and warming temperatures don't mix well. Therefore, off went the shirt. The climb itself took about 47 mins up, it was probably because everyone on the path had to bring their 2 yrd child who couldn't even walk yet stand up. They just hold on to their child's wrists with both hands, bending over slightly too much to where their crack is hanging out and they walk so slowly they don't realize their child is not moving because he has about 5 pounds of crap in his diaper that needs to be change. Oh yes, the slow pace of Mexico. No really i love the slower pace of life, just take care of your child needs before climbing the mountain. But i wont talk to fast.

We reached the top after the last leg that was a vertical hike, which really sucked for Alex because she wore a skirt that was kind of shorter, courtney wore a long skirt though, anyways at the top. The view was amazing. The weather was looking a little temperamental and the thunder rolling down the mountains behind the view weren't giving me a good impresison. Nonetheless, we continued climbing up to the pyramid which wasn't too big, but for being on a mountain top, it was impressive. It was supposedly built around the 1200's i believe i cant remember exactly, but it was eventually conquered by the Aztecs around 1450 (if I'm thinking the right times).

Courtney and i saw that people were sitting all along the edge of the pyramid and so we decided to climb around and sat down and had a little mediation session on the side of the pyramid like in Teotihuacan. It was nice and reminded me of the view of when i went mountain biking last summer in Montana with GU. The mountains fade off into the distance. IT was great.

I have to go now though because apparently the computer lab I'm in is a classroom and there is a class starting in less than 5 mins, so says the wonderfully not so nice professor to me. Great another blog not finished. So i gotta run home for lunch. Ill pick up later.