School has started!

I can't believe the second year is already here! I have been having such a blast getting settled in to my second year... I'm so happy to be back.

Saturday, I went out dancing, but ended up getting pretty sick and came home early. BUT, Dave and I danced for a long time and not gunna lie, he's learned a lot since I went to salsa classes with him! The birthday boy hadn't even showed up by the time I left (at 1:30), so that was a bit unfortunate, but I got to meet some of the new teachers and it was a lot of fun. Of course, I was super sore from having played ultimate frisbee earlier (yeah... we got roped into playing otherwise they wouldn't have had enough players!). Dave and I only played one of the three games, but I realized that I hadn't run outside since my half marathon, alm

ost a year and a half ago, so my lungs were put to the test. And my sprinting ability... haha.

Sunday, I ended up getting a text from Bethany, who got into town, so we went to Walmart to get some basics, and ran into Mel there (and another teacher). We caught up for a good hour :), then headed back by way of Telcel where Bethany got a new plan and phone and convinced me to do the same (I should be hearing from them soon to get my new phone!) I didn't have any ID with me, so I ran home while Bethany was doing all of her work, and ran back as fast as I could. I put Bethany's groceries in my fridge so that they didn't get all creepy warm sitting in the car. When Beth and I got back to my apartment, my door wouldn't open. Turns out, I had this wonderful (not) lock on my door that had a chain and then above it, a little pole that goes across. That little pole doesn't lock in place and just slides from one side to another. So, the

re was no way I was getting in there. So, I called up the locksmith, good ol' Jose Luis, who has me as a contact in his phone, that's how often I call him (and every time I see him, he says something like: "Oh, Sarah, you're more beautiful every time I see you, haha). He wasn't even working, came from home to try to help me, but there was just no way. So Dave, my Superman, ended up having to scale the wall, get up onto a ledge of a window that I had luckily left open, cut up the screen, and came in through the window to let me in. Yeah, that would happen to me. Thanks, Dave!

So after a little while, I headed over to Dave's for some burgers with some friends. They were DELICIOUS, and one of them is a chef, so he helped Dave prepare some mushroom/onion concoction which was probs the first time I've had mushrooms and liked it!

Yesterday was the first day back and it was filled with meetings. I fortunate

ly did not have to sit through a 3 hour meeting in the morning and spent most of the time helping out the new teachers to get acclimated and such. After school, Beth, Dave, and I were driving home, and I really wanted to go check out a kitty at the shelter, and it was pretty close to our chef friend's DELICIOUS restaurant, which is 60 pesos (about 5 bucks) for a 3 course meal, and it's all presented in a way you've never seen it before. For example, they brought us our soup yesterday, and in the bowl was only my zucchini and some cheese on top of it. Then they brought over the broth and poured it in on top. And it was AMAZING!

Then we went to the animal shelter, which was probably one of the saddest things I've ever seen. First of all, it was in the back of some junk yard type of thing, where they keep 35 dogs and 21 cats. Second of all, it took us a good 5 minutes of walking past it multiple times to figure out exactly where it was. I had gotten an email about a certain kitty that was the cat of the week, and he looked cute in the pic, but I wanted to see what my options were. After walking past rows of poor puppies barking away, I met Midnight and I just had to love him. He

was rubbing his body against my legs and just seemed to be the perfect fit. And he ended up being the kitty that they had recommended to me. So today after school, I get to go pick him up and bring him home! Isn't he cute? And he's got the greenest eyes I think I've ever seen :)

Today, I got a call from Dave around 7:05 (we were supposed to leave at 7). I have gotten sick since being here, so I didn't sleep well at all last night... so when I fell back asleep, I messed up the alarm on my phone. So, I show up to school, with all of my cosmetics in a bag, no shower (oh, which by the way has yet to be hot because I can't figure out my water heater... so maybe it wasn't so bad that I didn't get to shower!). Still waiting on my phone, my internet, my cable, and my new kitty!!!