Subway and Errands

Today Miranda and I went to campus; Miranda went off to class and I went to the Sociology building to find out that the Andres had something come up and wasn't able to meet with me today and we would get started tomorrow. But it gave me time to catch up on my blogging and journaling, so I was grateful for the day off while Miranda went to her chemistry class. I set myself up with a tea and my computer at our favorite place on campus, the Italian Coffee Company (which is apparently a company that is from Puebla, but is in English because English is de moda or "in fashion"), and got to writing! Miranda joined me at about 2 and we went to the Subway on campus for lunch, our first meal from an American company. It was nice but also a little strange to have something to eat that tasted exactly the same here as it would at home. There are no Five Dollar Footlongs here though, since they use pesos and the metric system. A 60 peso 30 cm long doesn't quite have the same ring. We left campus and went to run a few errands. First on our list: post office. I have a few postcards I've been wanting to mail for a few days but it took us a while to make it to the Zocolo to the main post office to finally send them off. We also bought some movies from across the street for us to watch in our room and pick up some more Spanish words. Next item of business: Laundry. Our land lady told us of a place a few blocks away that does laundry, so we made the journey there, where they do your laundry for you, and you pay by the kilo. We pick up our freshly cleaned load of laundry Wednesday afternoon! We grabbed some dinner after that, just in time to get caught in the daily evening rain storm. But we had fun running home and jumping in puddles! After some warm showers, we popped in one of the movies we bought, Ted, and settled in for a relaxing evening, eventually falling asleep to the calming sound of the rain storm.