Blogging Frusterations

So, I've been in Mexico for a few days. I arrived Saturday in Mexico City around 5p.m. local time. Coincidentally, it was 83degrees outside. the same temperature as it was when I landed in Italy two years ago. Maybe it will be a trend: Everytime I travel to a foreign country, it will be 83 degrees. I don't think this will be true when I go to Finland however. But I digress, I stood in line and was allowed to enter=yay! Then Kay, the other SU student with me(who just happened to have been on the same flight!), and I went to get our luggage and go through customs. There was no signage of where our stuff would show up so we waited and walked around only to discover that we had gone out the wrong door. We found our luggage and made it through customs! We also found the other students who were in our program and were greeted after spending a few awkward moments in silence standing next to one another until finally one of them asked if we were going to Augsburg.
Our driver was really nice. Mexico City was not very nice. I was relieved that we were not staying there. Lots of cops. Lots of people. Lots of pollution. Lots of crazy roads crossing all over everywhere. But it was sunset, and our driver spoke little English, so I had my first conversations in Spanish with him on the way home! It was thrilling. It was also disappointing. I discovered about 20minutes out of Cuernavaca (as my ears were popping as we went over a mountain) that my blood glucose kit was missing. Great. We made the hour and a half journey to Cuernavaca and it was dark, but the lights sprawled over the landscape. We whirled through the still-busy streets and then stopped on a downslope in what appeared to be nowhere special. Welcome home...at least for some of the next 16 weeks of your life.
Despite our searching, my meter was nowhere to be found. Great. Luckily, I had a back up. But I check about 10 times a day, so having to reduce that down to about 3-5 has been difficult.