11/17-23

11/17 -I slept pretty shit and wasn’t feeling to hot so I missed out on the meteor shower although I have no idea if it was even visible considering how far south I am. Well I woke up to an odd dream about being chased by zombies. Lately the dreams I do remember have been weird. Spanish is hard. We are moving at a ridiculous pace. I think we are in 4th or 5th year at this point. In Gender we talked about the 2nd wave and I had numerous revelations as usual.

11/18 -One of the longer days. 9-5 just like a job. Spanish was relaxed as usual. Cities had a discussion on muralism and handed our papers back. I don’t feel like I got a solid discussion or understanding of what makes mural. I more got the impression that everything Mexico does is a mural while everything Los Angeles does is art. Seriously what the fuck. Then we got our papers back. This is the kind of grading I hate. They graded based on their opinions and material presented. If they didn’t like your opinion then you got marked down. It was brutal and it seemed like the majority of the class was pissed. Migration was long because we had to make up a holiday, that is something I will never understand. Well we had a discussion on education and then went to a movie called Mi Vida Dentro. Which is about a 17 year old immigrant accused of murdering a child she was caring for. In my opinion it’s another great example of Texas fucking up justice. I didn’t see it as being proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I also saw the prosecution as relying on emotion and no facts. Here imagine a baby being killed, oh you wanted a medical evidence well too bad. The jury eats up the emotional evidence and ruins this woman’s life. Nice job Texas, maybe you won’t fuck it up when you review it in 2030.

11/19 -I had a 2 hour long talk with one of my professors about everything. I talked to her about Eddie Izzard, plastics, gender, museums, coca leaves, and llama meat just to name a few topics. It was nice and I felt like I really got to connect with her.

11/20 -I spent the morning at the library in UNAM to research my paper. I found some pretty good sources to back up the historical context for my labor conditions paper.

11/22 -I spent the day working on Migration Paper and I want to bring home foods and have a Mexican themed BBQ.

11/23 -We had Spanish and the professor flattered me when she discussed my advancement. Then we had migration and luckily were able to push back the paper and the test. Yay more study time. Then we had a field trip to see some murals unfortunately it ended up being at least 5 hours. We started with the Palacio Nacional and we saw Diego Rivera’s murals then we went to a market and saw some murals there. We ended at Bellas Artes which was immensely awkward. There was some fancy ritzy event that we crashed to look at the paintings. The professors defined murals as only by 4 people from Mexico. The whole discussion was poorly informed and elitist.