Week 1 San Miguel

Ok, so it's been a busy week. Sure I wanted to come to Mexico to relax and take a break from the rush and stress of my life in the States. However, I seem to have planned a full life down here. No extra time to sit and ponder my yoga sutras. Spanish classes run from 8:30 am until 6:30 pm with a 2 hour break to walk home for la comida in the middle of the day. My Spanish is improving, but I feel like I need to take another break. Now I know it is not my location, but my drive to learn and do as much as I can that pushes me towards crazy schedules. Yoga training, dive certification and now intensive Spanish. The school I am at is well respected. Academia Hispano Americana and my main teacher, Aide, is wonderful. She's only a year older than I am but she is very energetic and always prepared for class.
I live with a family about 15 minutes walk from the school. San Miguel is such a beautiful town. The family has 2 other students living there two. Both bald guys, one 41 and one 61. Having students is more like a business for them than a cultural experience as we don’t eat together or interact much. I have my own bathroom and a tiny room, just enough to lay down a yoga mat, but not enough to stretch beyond the limits of the mat. Many people live in the house, the 3 students, the parents, a renter on the 4th floor, the oldest daughter (18) and her husband and child, the son (16) and another daughter (15). The only people I have talked to are the mother and the son. One of the other students totally freak me out. Yikes, just as I wrote that he stepped up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder at the internet cafe. See what I mean? I think I will not be living with the family for much longer because he makes me so uncomfortable. It might be nice because the food is good, but I am eating more white flour and fewer vegetables than I´d like. I´ve also never seen a house with so many decorations. Every wall is covered, I´ll have to take some pictures.

I started this post last week so I will just pretend its still last week. I wish mom could have stayed with me down here; there is so much to do and its been sunny every day. We stayed at Casa Luna, a very romantic B&B. Staying there made me appreciate decorative details. Last Thursday and Friday they celebrated some conquistador with Aztec dancing. This week its a Cuban Festival with lots of music and dancing too.
The cobblestone streets of San Miguel are really nice, hard to run on, but beautiful. However, huge doors block off so many of the fantastic interiors. Its not like the US where the outside of the house is the showpieces. The beauty is for those inside the courtyards. There are so many things I want to do here, I think I may end up spending two months instead of one.