Procrastinating...
Hey Yall. I know it has been a while but it has been super busy here. On average we have to write about 5 papers a week on readings and I am not talking short one papers here... just a 4-5 page thesis paper is all... It's a little overwhelming however when we get down to Nogales in March it will be more out in the community rather than book work so thats good. I can't believe we go down in 2 weeks! Whoa! Where did the time go?
On that note let me update you... the Saturday after Valentines we went to go pick up trash in the desert where migrants have left clothes, trash, toothbrushes, bottles, water, backpacks, make-up and so much more. It was really overwhelming at how much stuff was left in these deserts... It's just crazy... As we were there, a group of 40 migrants got picked up by border patrol. They were all lined up and were getting orders in english when the border patrol is suppose to be bilingual... it was such a demeaning thing to do. But I guess that is their job... to make people not want to come into this country, that is of course why they are building another cement wall 5 feet behind the existing one on the US side. It's rediculous.
So, after that it was back to the grind of reading and getting papers done on time and be able to at least try to hold a discussion in class on what our paper topic was for the day... oh what fun... this past weekend we did go out and blow off some steam. It seems, however, that even though this is a college town and we are but blocks from the U of A, anyone under 21 can't do anything but go bowling. Oh joy. We found this out the hard way. We all got ready to go out dancing and come to find out all the clubs are 21+... what? why? Whatever... so we just went down to the U and walked around, then came back and watched a movie. It was a good night overall. Saturday was a wonderful day though... it was the day of crashing parties. We seriously found a way to get invited to 2 parties. It was awesome. Haley came back and told us there was this BBQ that we should try to get invited to and so we went walking down the street and did get an invite but said we might stop in on our way back... now we all know that we were going no where so we just walked down to 4th Ave and turned around and sure enough we got another invite... holler. So, we went in, had a beer and hung out with some cool peeps for about a half hour to an hour. It was a good time. After dinner we heard about this "bangin' party" and ended up going. We did get invited through a friend of a friend so when we arrived it was like hey! we were invited i swear. It ended up being a really fun time and we hung out with a lot of the staff here at Borderlinks. It was really funny and awkward at first but as the night wore on it went away. I met some really cool people here in Tucson and have some connections with more things going on here. They have this game they play which is to climb the wall... which is the side of their house, a brick wall, from one end of the porch to the next. It looks and sounds crazy but it is awesome. I really want to get into rock climbing because of it.. It was totally just you and the wall I got halfway to the corner and kept falling off... I would get closer and closer each time to it but then my spiderman abilities would stop short. We all needed that night. It was a good time.
So, now its back to the grind until this weekend when we just let go b/c we are all so tired of reading... I need to go read some espanol so.. Until next time.
On that note let me update you... the Saturday after Valentines we went to go pick up trash in the desert where migrants have left clothes, trash, toothbrushes, bottles, water, backpacks, make-up and so much more. It was really overwhelming at how much stuff was left in these deserts... It's just crazy... As we were there, a group of 40 migrants got picked up by border patrol. They were all lined up and were getting orders in english when the border patrol is suppose to be bilingual... it was such a demeaning thing to do. But I guess that is their job... to make people not want to come into this country, that is of course why they are building another cement wall 5 feet behind the existing one on the US side. It's rediculous.
So, after that it was back to the grind of reading and getting papers done on time and be able to at least try to hold a discussion in class on what our paper topic was for the day... oh what fun... this past weekend we did go out and blow off some steam. It seems, however, that even though this is a college town and we are but blocks from the U of A, anyone under 21 can't do anything but go bowling. Oh joy. We found this out the hard way. We all got ready to go out dancing and come to find out all the clubs are 21+... what? why? Whatever... so we just went down to the U and walked around, then came back and watched a movie. It was a good night overall. Saturday was a wonderful day though... it was the day of crashing parties. We seriously found a way to get invited to 2 parties. It was awesome. Haley came back and told us there was this BBQ that we should try to get invited to and so we went walking down the street and did get an invite but said we might stop in on our way back... now we all know that we were going no where so we just walked down to 4th Ave and turned around and sure enough we got another invite... holler. So, we went in, had a beer and hung out with some cool peeps for about a half hour to an hour. It was a good time. After dinner we heard about this "bangin' party" and ended up going. We did get invited through a friend of a friend so when we arrived it was like hey! we were invited i swear. It ended up being a really fun time and we hung out with a lot of the staff here at Borderlinks. It was really funny and awkward at first but as the night wore on it went away. I met some really cool people here in Tucson and have some connections with more things going on here. They have this game they play which is to climb the wall... which is the side of their house, a brick wall, from one end of the porch to the next. It looks and sounds crazy but it is awesome. I really want to get into rock climbing because of it.. It was totally just you and the wall I got halfway to the corner and kept falling off... I would get closer and closer each time to it but then my spiderman abilities would stop short. We all needed that night. It was a good time.
So, now its back to the grind until this weekend when we just let go b/c we are all so tired of reading... I need to go read some espanol so.. Until next time.
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