La escuela.

I had my first day of school yesterday. Contrary to what I was told by the other exchange students everyone was really, really nice. I think that might be because we (Greg, the other Australian exchange student, and I) are a bit of a novelty at this stage because we don't speak Spanish, but there were a few people who were genuinely interested in helping me, which was good.

School in México is very different to school in Australia. For one thing it starts at 7am and finishes around 1-2pm, so you have the whole afternoon to go and do stuff. Another huge difference is how it is actually run. There are no school bells... you just have to know what time it is (which is hard seeing as there are no clocks in the classrooms). And the teachers are so not strict. Kids walk around all the time and yell and do no work and no one cares. They use their mobile phones all the time in class and if their phone rings they just answer it and start chatting away. And everyone smokes. Its so gross. At recess 90% of the class went out and had a cigarette. Yuck!

Spanish lessons were pretty fun too. Our teacher is very nice, but we are going very fast... its a bit hard, but its do-able as long as we do our homework... which i am going to start very soon.

I´ve loaded my photos onto the computer... but I have to convert them from RAW format and then edit them first, which might take a while. But as soon as I've finished I will post the photos from the flight over.

Anyway... dinner is soon so I must go. (I guess you've figured out that I generally use the computer before dinner ;-))