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Jennifer made it to San Miguel from Denver! She arrived at the casa of her host Mexican family at 1 a.m. Saturday night - right before daylight savings time arrived here. (We are now on Central time, although it was handier when we were on Mountain time!) She had a near catastrophe, though, because, after nearly two hours in customs, there was no shuttle to meet her. Then when she went to pre-pay for a cab, she couldn't find her wallet! She had to retrace her steps, going back through customs, and checking all her bags. She finally found it - and luckily the van as well. Fortunately, a bad situation was avoided. I went to her host casa at 10 a.m. Sunday morning and had breakfast with the family - mom (Lourdes is the only name I remember), dad, 22 year old daughter and 9 year old son. They're very nice people and I know Jennifer is going to learn Spanish much quicker than me. In fact, she was already conversing with them during breakfast, while I sat there grinning saying, "si" every few minutes. I have already teased Jennifer mercilessly though, because the first thing she said when she arrived in Customs at the Mexico City airport and they asked, "Como estás?" (how are you?), was " yo estoy muy caliente." What she was meaning to say was that she was really hot, since it was very hot there. But, as Elvira told me MANY times, NEVER SAY YO ESTOY CALIENTE! A "hot" person, especially a woman, is bad. What Jennifer said, essentially, was "I am a whore." The customs agent, a man, laughed as if he'd heard that one before.

So, after breakfast yesterday, Jennifer and I toured around town. We went to the Jardin and took a look at the de Allende museum that Presidente Calderon had dedicated the day before. Then we did a little shopping - Jennifer needed a toothbrush and a hat. We made our way down to my school and looked around. My school (Instituto Allende) is about a 15 minute walk from my casita. Jennifer is also going to be going to school in the morning, but her's (Academia Espanol) is just down the street from me. Her program will be more intense than mine. We continued our walk through the town park (Parque Juarez) and back. It was a nice day. We rested for awhile at our respective homes and then went out for pizza.

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We both went to school this morning. Before I headed off, I packed my stuff to make the casita switch. I organized my new place after school and then went for a swim. Jennifer started school today and then went to her host family's son's piano recital. We're getting together after awhile to go wander around town.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go with my neighbors, Ron and Artha, to Guanajuato. It's a town about 90 kilometers away and we'll take the bus. I've heard great things about the town and am anxious to check out the mummy museum. I'm going to "ditch" school so I can go, since it would be too difficult to try to do just in an the afternoon. I'm going to call Elvira tonight and tell her I won't be there. Jennifer will go to school tomorrow, but they apparently do outings to Guanajuato, so she'll be able to go another time. And I may go again.