Quick update since i{m in an internet cafe paying for the time.

i think ill first tell the story of yesterday morning

so on thursday night i go over to juanas house in Tortugas to make sure i can leave on the van with the factory workers friday morning. she tells me that she and amanda are going to Leon tomorrow too so we should all go together, they are leaving at 7. now, i know for a fact that the van leaves at 7:30... but regardless, when someone tells me 7 i feel a little guilty waking up AFTER 7... so i get up at 6:50, a good compromise i think. at about 7:15 i wander over to juanas house. she leaves me outside watching the chickens. now, if you havent watched chickens eat tortillas ever, you should. totally reminded me of geertz and his quests. (dorky anthro joke-- i have to get them where i can) at 7:30, erika leaves to take the van... curious i think.. but we are waiting for dona amanda so we must wait. 7:45 juana decides it's time to take off in search of dona amanda. she is nowhere to be found. so juana leaves me in the street while she goes off to get her son because she is not going alone and if amanda has abandoned her, her son must come. i see her come back 10 minutes later in a different outfit. apparently amanda has called and she left with the factory workers (the smart way out of town). juana has changed into a more flowing skirt so that she can walk better but hasn't brought her son because she's sure she will find amanda. we walk for about an hour when finally someone gives us a ride. but they drop us off at this weird part of the highway. juana pulls me over to the wrong side of the road. apparently now I am part of her quest to find amanda. we get on a bus towards san pancho and when i go to sit down she says no, we have to stay up front in case we see amanda on the road and need to wrangle her into the bus. finally juana realizes that amanda is nowhere to be seen and that i'm not interested in her quest and gets off near where the factories are to search for her there. I continue on. after a nice nap on the first bus, i get on the second. there are no seats left (two weeks in a row), but i don't feel like waiting. so, i plop my bag down and do the thing i only did because i had gotten 5 hours of sleep, waited around for an hour , walked for an hour, and been on 2 buses all by 10:30 AM. I sit in the aisle on my bag. after the snickers subsided i looked around. i had plopped myself down in front of a couple who then proceeded to make out for the entire one hour bus ride.
awkward.


more later if we get internet back. for now i'm running ouuuuuuuuuuut.