Updates

Finally completely settled into my new place in New Mexico. The town is small and tends to smell like cow because of the dairy farms that surround the place. Its hot but not oppressive like it is in Galveston. I actually wear blue jeans! and when you go in the shade the tempature actually cools down. As you can tell I am still amazed with the 'dry heat'.

It has been a hard transition from hometown to new town but I am getting used to it. Still havent met many people other than my neighbor but I havent done much around here yet either. In a way I am enjoying the solitude. Something I have not had in... years. And of course I am loving being alone in my own space, doing my own thing. With that being said I miss my friends tremendously. I love the people that I surrounded myself with in Galveston.

School. It started last week and I know that I am going to really enjoy the coursework. I am finally done with general classes, minus the comp. class they are making me take, so I am on to my classes for my majors. (which is Anthropology and History) The (text)books for the classes are interesting. My cultural anthro class books are different ethnographies by anthropologists ranging from a native culture in New Guinea to women of Rio shantytowns, and differnt things in between. My other classes are Indians of North America (pretty straight forward) and Survey of Western Civilization. I always excel at History so I am confident in how the semester will go. Lots of papers to write :) and information to read :) This Friday there is a meeting of the Antropolgy Club. Not sure if I am going to join or not but I will probably attend to see if I am interested. There is a History club here as well that I will probably look into. Geez I sound like a nerd.

Yoga. So the only yoga studio around is about 25 minutes away and it only has hot yoga. So I went. And I threw up. haha. I hated every minute of it. And will go back again. I am def. missing Jim, my yoga teacher in Galveston. Though I did find out today that they have yoga Mon and Wed(cant Wed bc of Hist. class) nights at the rec center right down the street so I will be checking that out for sure on Monday. I also spoke to the yoga instructor at the univ and she said she would sign me into her full class if I wanted to go this semester. I will have to talk to admissions tomorrow and see how much that will set me back, but I love yoga so I must look into it. I dont want hot yoga to be my only option. Maybe after I get back into my yoga as well as 'running' routine I will try the hot yoga again and it wont be *as* terrible as it was Friday. I have a good friend who absolutely swears by it so I told her I wouldnt give up on it.

I flew home Sat. morning because my mom was in town and I havent seen her since March and wouldnt see her again till Christmas time if I didnt this time around. It was so worth it. I spent 3 amazingly wonderful days with her. If you would have told me during my teens years that my mom would be my absolute best friend I would have laughed at you. Dont get me wrong I have always been really close to my mom but I was a holy terror for her at that point in my life. I am so extremely grateful to have the opportunity to have such a beautiful, loving relationship with her. It may sound cliche but she really is my best friend and I hope that I can be at least a fraction of what a tremendous women she is. As always it was hard to say goodbye to her. I know she is proud of me for coming out here to go to school so that keeps me motivated to keep on keeping on. Got to spend some time with the rest of the family too. One of my neices was living in Costa Rica with my brother and parents all summer so I got to see her for the first time since May. Six going on sixteen. I also got to pick up her and my other six year old neice from their first day of first grade! They are in the same school this year. Both beautiful incredibly smart girls. And as always my 17 month old nephew was the cutest little guy on the planet. Example: His cousin (my neice mentioned above) fell and hurt her ankle while playing with his sister(my other neice mentioned above). He dropped what he was doing and rushed (in a lil guy still learning the walking ropes way) over to her and patted her back and looked at everyone like 'Hello? She is hurt arent you going to help her' with a distraught face. Then gave her sweet hugs until she stopped crying. :) I rest my case.
Bonus: spending a little time with my love ♥

Well I have some reading to get to that didnt get done this weekend.

xo