Arrival in Paradise!

We have finally arrived in Puerto Escondido & I must say it is P A R A D I S E!!!! We arrived at 5:30pm on Saturday after a long 10 hour bus ride. Luckily, I slept the WHOLE way through thanks to Dramamine. Usually I don't get carsick, but the ride was so curvy that it made me super nauseous. On top of that, my stomach was hurting so so bad. When we left in the morning, I was shaking from the pain. Dramamine just totally knocks you out so I had a good rest on the bus. =) My stomach WAS feeling better on Friday, but at night, I decided to go out and some friends and I decided to get Chinese food. Then, at night, my host mom fed me cold delicious grapes, and also apple bread that we all baked together. It was a lot of fun BUT my stomach wanted to murder me that night. =(

Anyhow, on Saturday night, after everyone was settled in, we had dinner and a presentation from the medical director in Puerto. After being seafood deprived since I've gotten to Oaxaca, I was SOO happy to see FISH! :D

Judy and I are rooming together. We live in a cute little room studio style with our own little kitchen. The bathroom is super cute too...our shower is decorated with stones and our sink has the face of a sun inside! I absolutely love all the decor of this place! It's very beachy! In fact, there are huts everywhere around here and the beach is literally less than 5 minutes away!!!

our cute bathroom ^___^

The rest of our place is pretty sweet as well! We are living at a place called Casa Mar which includes a nice pool and hammocks for us. So most of the time during the day, I just chill by the pool "trying" to read. It's seriously hard to do work here. Ugh. Sucks because we have TONS of essays to write.



Yesterday, they had a welcome thing for us at Zicatela beach where we got free surf lessons. Well, I didn't because I couldn't due to unfortunate circumstances of being a female. Enough said.
It was nice though seeing people surf. I really want to be able to do that next week for sure. I got horribly burnt. I was literally FRIED. My back and legs are burned badly :( It hurts to sleep. At night, most of us went to Super Che to buy groceries since we all have a kitchen now. Judy and I bought lots of things to cook Asian meals every night ^_____^V YAHH!
ASIAN FOOD!

Today, I just tried to finish reading. During the afternoon, I went back to Zicatela to read while John and some other people went back to surf. I had a whole coconut to myself while reading too! Afterwards, I saw the most beautiful sunset while sipping on some fresh coconut juice =) Paradise, like I said.

Tomorrow will be the first day of class. *Sigh....I guess we gotta do work now =P