Another day in Guanajuato

This is part of the underground tunnel system. It just happens to be open in this section right near my hotel.

This is one of the museums that I visited today. It´s called Alhondiga de Granaditas. It´s all about the Mexican War of Independence.

This was a different museum that I visited. It didn´t have much in it but it was underground and very pretty. The roof above was at street level and you could see people walking on it.

This is my Oxxo. It is right near my hotel. It´s just like a 7-11 and that is where I get my coffee every morning.

This is one set of stairs that I need to climb before I get to my hotel. After that I have to go up a little hill.

I feel like I´m settling into everyday life here in Guanajuato. I like my hotel but it is a little quirky. They have a sign in the bedroom that says to notify the office when you want to take a shower. They will turn on the hot water and you will have hot water within 2 minutes. For some reason I don´t really like to get up and walk all the way down to the office to tell them that I´m going to take a shower. Sometimes they aren´t there and it just seems a little weird to me. I have gotten used to taking cold showers and it doesn´t bother me too much. I guess if I cared, I´d be running down the stairs. I did however luck out one night and got a warm shower without asking. I don´t know what happened there.

I really liked my spanish classes much better today. I had written over 30 sentences and the first teacher (the one that I didn´t love yesterday) had me read them, asked me questions about them and corrected my errors. It was fun and really helpful. I think it was good because I took a long time writing sentences that were meaningful to me. My second teacher was also good. I think the first teacher is my conversation teacher and my second one is my grammer teacher. I was sorry that I signed up yesterday but today I´m very happy. I feel like I am learning a lot in just 3 hours. Tonight I had to write a lot more sentences, maybe 40. I basically write one sentence for every verb that I learn for that day.

This is such a nice city. It is so clean and nice that sometimes I forget that I am not in the United States. But then something weird happens and I remember that things are different here. I was walking home from the coffee shop after doing my homework this evening and 4 burros walked by me loaded up with sacks of something, maybe maize flour. It´s pretty normal to see stuff like that in the country but not walking on the sidewalks in the city.

Tomorrow I may go to visit a town nearby called San Miguel after my spanish classes. I was going to spend a few days but I feel like I´m running out of time. I´ve heard mixed reviews about the town. Most people here don´t like it because it has been taken over by more than 12,000 American retirees that apparently aren´t that culturally aware. It takes a little over an hour to get there by bus so I will go and return in the same day.