El Cristo Rey y Otras Cosas

14 days until I leave for Guanajuato. I'm trying to balance getting ready for Guanajuato, moving out, and my finals here at OSU. No wonder time is flying by. The picture above was taken at Guanajuato/León (the airport that I'm flying into). At the top of the mountain in the background you can barely see the 65ft statue Monumento a Cristo Rey (Monument to Christ the King). It's on of the largest statues of Jesus in the world and sits atop Cerro del Cubilete, the 3000ft mountain in the background.
I was excited to hear from my mom that the space-saver vacuum bags work well. I was wondering how I was going to live with only two bags and a carry on for two months. That's not to mention what I buy down there and have to bring back. On another note, I am trying to figure out what I want to take to my host family as a gift that is representative of Ohio. Longaberger baskets are unique to Ohio, but in Mexico hand-made baskets are nothing. I'm going to take them some buckeyes from OSU but if anyone else has any ideas, please let me know.
Also, at the bottom of my blog, I have an RSS feed from Correo, the newspaper for the state of Guanajuato. I realize that the RSS feed is in Spanish, but the newspaper doesn't print any of their news in English. Only a few people reading my blog will be able to read it, but it's still a cool feature that I had to put in.

¡Estamos en contacto!

22 Days Until Departure

Last night I realized that I leave in just three weeks. (The picture to the left is of Guanajuato). Yesterday I also found out that I will probably not be living with another student with my host family. It will just be me and my host family. I'm fine with that, but I won't be able to look over at another American when they do something crazy and give him/her the "Can you believe these people?" look. Oh well, it should be a lot of fun. I know two people from The Ohio State University that are going, but we haven't spent any time together so we really don't know much about each other. I was a little concerned that none of us would get together while we are living in Guanajuato, but then I remembered that when I was in London, that wasn't the case. Although the London trip was very different, when you stick American students in a foreign country and they know no-one, they bond and become close friends very quickly. I'm not worried about having people around. I AM WORRIED about the FOOD though. I hate authentic Mexican food (at least the couple of times that I've had it). Don't get me wrong, I like Tex-Mex food, but the authentic stuff tastes nothing like it. Oh well, we'll see how this all goes. This is pretty much just a test message so I can get this thing set up.