Mexico, I´m here

Mexico DF is an awesome, but congested, place. I am part of the Center for Global Education group which consists of three other girls. They are great; we all share many of the same passions.

We just arrived to Cuernavaca from our Orientation in Mexico DF and we have already embarked on the social justice mission of Augsburg´s CGE.
Tomorrow I will begin my first assignment for my Latin Am. Culture and Civilization class. The theme of the program, by the way, is that exact title--Latin American Culture and Civilization.

In six days the girls and I will begin our homestays with Cuernavacan families.

If you think "paper planes" is good, then...

You will grow to JAM [very much so] TO "BUCKY DONE GONE."

M.I.A. at The Myth

M.I.A. put on literally the most entertaining live music show I have ever attended.
Yes, the sound wasn't all that great, but I was not even aware of that factor at the time.
To tell you the truth, on the way to the Cities her CD was on repeat and the same thing happened on the way back. M.I.A. IS IN MY HEAD!!!!
The pretty awesome, alright--incredibly awesome, thing that happened though was actually meeting M.I.A. herself and having a couple conversations with her dancers and back-up singer, Charity and Sisco.
They were quite down-to-earth.
Yas and I "woman-ed up" to ask for their autographs and then we told them a little bit about ourselves. I mean hombre, ya gotta do it. Why let the moment pass you up?
Going out of the comfort zone is so rewarding usually ayyy

POWER TO THE PEOPLE
M.I.A.--THIRD WORLD DEMOCRACY

In the words of M.I.A. as she culminated her performance: "Have an open mind."

--PAZ.

You've Gotta Love Those Short Weekend Trips

It's nice to have relatives who invite you places, you know?
This weekend I'll be taking up such an invitation with my parents when we will head to northern Minnesota; unfortunately tomorrow will be a bit of an early morning, but that is what sleeping in the car is for I suppose.
Hopefully I'll get some good reading accomplished. But let's be serious, as far back as I recall every time I read I end up falling asleep. I guess it just depends... usually the eyes will start closing a good 15 minutes later.
Oh gosh that's really bad.
Let's work on that.

El dia de las madres

Happy Mothers' Day, mama!

One good way to soak up Mothers' Day:

Gardening.

--lots of flowers planted taking lots of time, pero valio la pena.

The New Ella

The utmost happiness to Carola and her husband Brent, because their daughter was born early this past week*
Ella is her name is she quite preciosa!
Cheers to their future!

I'm Back; the Transitions have always been

Being home has been relaxing, productive, un-productive, exciting, frustrating, restless,...
But,
overall it has been quality. Quality in the respect that my time at
home has allowed me to be around the best of the best--mom and dad.
Although my brother isn't here, I have talked with him on the phone a couple times, so we'll include him in the above category.
There's
just all this transitioning that's going on, ya know? Life is just a
turmoil of unique, spontaneous, bittersweet transitioning. A lot of
times these transitions happen without us even consciously realizing
them. I mean, let's take into account a simple thing such as
re-arranging your dorm room. Although moving around some furniture and
taping up some new posters doesn't lock in as a monumental
transformation, that change in [life]style still constitutes as a
transition--whether having more clutter on your walls relaxes you, or
if it gets to theclaustrophobic, distracting point where you just have gotta take that shit down!
Well, what I'm getting at is that it's just important to be resilient--resilient
while still being aware, soaking in what you are experiencing and what
you can squeeze out of those experiences, even down to the little
details.
So as transitions are constant and imminent, let's work with them for everyone's sanity, eh!