My second week in Mexico has gone well. I am getting more and more settled in; I definitely feel a lot more used to living here. I am staying on top of my schoolwork, but it is sometimes hard to force myself to be responsible. It´s weird to be in Mexico and have homework to do; It´s like I´m on vacation, but I still have schoolwork to do. The workload is not bad at all for taking 12 credits in 6 weeks, but it´s still a little weird to be in Mexico with work to do.

Last weekend we took a trip to Guanajato, which was really cool. The town is very unique. The town was a mining town set up during colonial times for it´s gold. The entire town feels like it was chiseled out of the mountain that surrounds it. There are a bunch of streets that are underground, and there are even 4 way intersections in tunnels. I guess it was easier to go under the mountain than over it. The streets above ground were all quite disorganized, skinny and slanted every which way. There was obviously little city planning when it was first settled. The town was so unique and I have never seen a town quite like it.

I didn´t get any good pictures of the city streets, but here is a picture looking down on the city.

Here is another picture of Guanajuato. I believe this awesome-looking building is their university.

Also I mentioned it was a mining town. Here is a picture of the descent into a mine.