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Days in Mexico: 54

This week has been less eventful than the previous couple. I have almost been in Mexico for 2 months now and I am really settling in.

Spring break is coming up and I am really starting to feel comfortable at school, even though I still don't understand what is going on most of the time. I made the decision after much deliberation to move from the English class to the French class. I know that it sounds crazy learning two new languages at once but I think it's better to have the opportunity to learn something new rather than revise what I have been learning for the past 12 years at school in Australia. At times it is a bit hard to figure out if the teacher is speaking Spanish or French but once I know more Spanish, it will get easier. Unlike Spanish, I learnt a year and a half of French during high school 4 years ago and have been to France before so I am familiar with some words.

Today there was a display of physics projects at recess break. Each group had to create a water wheel and there were some really impressive designs. My group's project had a Willy Wonka theme and we used weak coffee instead of water to look like chocolate. Some of the other groups had original designs as well. One group used the energy to power a marble circuit and another group even used fish in their project!

Willy Wonka themed water wheel

A mechanical water wheel with a marble circuit

A physics project with fish

It's already April and the weather is heating up. Summer is set to be hot and humid. This week the temperature got up to 36 degrees and even Pancho was trying to keep cool...

As I am getting more comfortable being in Mexico, my family in Australia are getting use to life without me in the house. My sister said that my bedroom is cleared out I and I didn't believe her until I got a Snapchat from her. It doesn't even look familiar to me anymore because it is so empty without all my stuff.

My room looks empty