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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Humanities major for two months...

 I never questioned my major in college. I registered for Communications 101 my first semester and never had any desires to leave, but for two months I've found myself a student at La Universidad Modelo studying Humanities.
I've done crazy things like go to a bull fight and walk through a museum of modern art. I have no plans of changing my major, but it's been interesting to learn things from a different perspective. The bull fight was cool, and I even liked the art.
I should try new things more often.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Culture Shock

Apparently the Spaniards didn't bathe when they first came to the Americas. I was shocked to learn this fact in one of the recent excursions I went on during my study abroad in Mexico. Apparently the Maya, who usually bathed three times a day, agreed with me because the refused to go to an indoor Mass with those stinky Spaniards. Schockingly, the Spaniards thought the remedy for this was not to cool off in a stream before mass, but rather to build an open chapel. I guess it solved the problem, but to me the idea of not showering in a place that's 100 degrees is a bigger culture shock than finding out one of the other students found a cockroach in one of her tamales. Either way...Gross!