hey friends, just got a quick chance to update you all from mexico...
things are going good here, no i dont have internet in my house so this will be short. i am currently living in merida, in a nice cinder block house. and yes i do sleep in a hammock and shower out of a bucket, but hey its nice. the heat is something else, never thought it was possible to get this hot. i am loving it down here, and yes i speak spanish now, not perfectly, but hey i only have a few months under my belt. since i go door to door its nice to see all the different kinds of people that live out here, man i wish i had more time, just wanted to stop by and say hello. if you want to know anything specific PM me and i might be able to answer sometime in the next few months. take care of isketch for me!
Jmac

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Jmac!!! Woohooo!!!! We were only talking about you the other day!!!

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Heeeeey Jmac!! Good to see you!
So glad you're enjoying yourself out there. It must be quite the experience. We've all missed you tons! Thank you for updating us!! :) Good luck, and I hope you keep well out there!

Check out this thread - from Post 38 onwards!!!

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Dude! Glad to see you're alive! I hope mexico is treating you well, good luck with the rest of your trip!

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got a little more time...things out here are awesome. let me just describe what i am doing on a daily basis. wake up at 6 in the morning, shower, eat, workout until 730. 730 until 930 study the scriptures, 930 till 10 study spanish, at 10 leave the house. from 10 until 2 i am either teaching people about the scriptures in their house, or walking around knocking doors, almost always we have appointments, we rarely knock doors. the people at doors tend to be a little rude lol, but its kind of amusing some of the things they say like ´lock yourself in your church and only teach those that care about what you are saying´ lol. love it. wel at 2 we go and eat, every day a different member of the church makes us lunch, its good, i love the food out here. then from 3 until 930 i am out teaching again. 930 return to the house. 1030 go to sleep in my hammock for the next day. it is really cool, i have learned so much about the culture seeing it first hand. i do miss talking with you all, and baking virtual cookies lol, but i do have to say i dont miss isketch that much... oh and showering in a bucket isnt that bad, i just have to heat up my water on the stove before i go and shower. lets see, what else can i say.... the houses out here have cool colors, and there is a ton of iguanas. i really got culture shocked seeing people that live in houses made from sticks, and seeing taxis that are bicycles with a seat on the front... but its a once in a life time experience....
glad to see that you guys missed me! know that i missed all you too, and i will try to update yall once every couple of months!
Jmac

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awww It sounds as if you are having a fantastic time Jmac! Who would have thought it eh? Sleeping in a hammock and showering from a bucket. Makes you kind of appreciate what we have - boy, do we take a lot for granted :S

Best of luck to you Jmac and if you can - I for one would love to hear how you are getting on!

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i took a bus to the center of merida and am paying for the internet right now, monday is my day off to write do laundry buy stuff etc.

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Seems like a cool adventure :)
I can't say I agree with what you do, but as an experience, I bet it's amazing.

Good luck and have fun!

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Jmac, great hearing from you, and what you have been up to.

take care

jewels x

hope to hear from you again.

Hello nice to meet you ..havent spoken to you on the forum but have heard/read a bit about you and you seem like a lovely guy.What a wonderful time you seem to be having trip of a lifetime I'd say.Hope your getting good response sounds like you are a lot of the time.Will you be taking pics for all of us too see when you get back ?.Im sure they would be fascinating .If you have taken a camera that is lol.Anyway have a great experience and keep safe Bell X

Nooooooo! I missed JMac :( Glad to hear all is well for him!

Have fun, JMac, come back soooon!

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darn it, i missed him too. :(
Jmac, glad you're having fun, glad you get internet. i hope everything's going to keep going great.

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Sounds like a great learning experience and most of all it is a good thing you are enjoying it all.


We haven't met by the way...haha am boda...ask around XD

jmac what a great time you must be having ,not stress no hassle,what an experience,glad that your enjoying it.
take care , and do you wanna start the game answer a question with a question ??? lol

take care x

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If you have nothing nice to say then Zip !!!

Heyhey, you're back again! Can't keep away, eh? :) Glad I caught you this time.

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NO!!!! vik caught me on!!!! lol... no just so yall know, ill be on probably (more than likely, but no guarantees) every monday for the next 3 weeks, after that there are transfers and i could be in a different area so who knows, but like vik said, i just cant stay away! lol.

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Your summer sounds so rigorous.. I missed making fun of you on isketch, is the internet really slow there? Hurry and come back home (isketch of course)

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Living the peach life.

so i get to see a hurricane tomorrow, wonder what its going to be like.... just so you all know things are still going just fine and dandy, its crazy how fast my spanish is coming, im thinking and dreaming in spanish now, definitely going to be a handicap when i come back to isketch. i think i will use that as my excuse for being slow to get the words lol.... well just thought i would let all of you know (because i know i am like totally way popular and like you all are totally worried about whats going to happen to me and i like want to calm all of your fears so that you dont like have some like massive heart attack, beacuse that would be very bad, uh huh, very bad... lol) that i am safe here in the yucatan, just a little bit of water and wind. lol. well have a good day!

-the man who puts the letter J in front of any type of Mac, indifferent to the mac, love the mac, doesnt matter, still Jmac.

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Good luck with that hurricane! Hope nothing bad happens to you. I guess it's too much to wish for nothing bad to happen to everybody in the area :( I hope so anyway. They usually seem to strike the areas that seem least capable of dealing with them.

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If you have nothing nice to say then Zip !!!

Oh, good luck with your hurricane! Hope you're alright. If you're not, just don't try to come here to complain about it, lol

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hey friends, i got a little bit of time right now as it is holiday season and i just thought i would like to give you all a little update.

well i am currently in a small city of about 40,000 people right next to the gulf of mexico, almost everyone here are fishermen or marines. its been getting pretty cold in the nights lately, like 75 degrees, i am still sleeping in my hammock and loving it. ummm what else, oh the food here is really good, love it. well thats about all i can think of right now to put... so yeah, done.

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AWW Jmac. glad your having aloverly time hun.,hope you have a wonderful christmas and a great new year, take care of yourself..
xxxxxx

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If you have nothing nice to say then Zip !!!

Glad to hear you're having fun jmac. Enjoy the sights.

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