Sights and Sounds :)

Aguascalientes is such a beautiful city. The architecture on some of the buildings is so amazing. The styles are way different than home too, lots of bright colors and different shapes. There´s this beautiful park that has a large gazebo in the middle, and there´s flowers of every color everywhere it´s so gorgeous. There´s lots of fountains with benches around them for sitting at. There´s also like a big Roman Catholic church on every corner it seems. The area where I´m staying is very modern I kind of expected people to be living in grass huts :) However most people live in a regular mexican house. If you go to a different section of Aguascalientes there´s a mall, Wal-mart, Costco so things are quite Americanized. Where I am though there´s lots of little corner stores, and little shops. On every street there´s lots of venders with carts on the streets selling fruit, or coconut milk, some will sell stuff they´ve made. The town can be a really noisy place it´s quite a bit different then home. Taxis drive by like every 30 seconds and if they´re free they´ll honk their horn so there´s lots of honking. And there´s these certain trucks I dont know what they´re used for but they have a speaker on top of the roof that plays this really annoying lady singing. The city also kind of reminds me of disneyland you often will see people working for the city with their cart that has a garbage and a broom and they´ll be cleaning the streets. That´s a lot diferent than home there´s not much litter on the streets at all. The nights can be really different here too. Erin was telling me that most people dont have really big houses, a lot of them dont have tvs or anything like that. So at night the streets are full of people. They´ll be walking, or sitting in front of their houses talking. I´ve walked downtown a number of times in the evening and you always feel so safe because there just hords of people everywhere. There´s also police everywhere, at like every mall and when you´re walking down the street you usually dont go longer than a minute before seeing a police in their car or on a bike or motorcycle. Every Sunday night one street over from the casa (the orphanage) there´s this huge party. There´s fireworks and music and dancing, the fireworks this past Sunday went off right over the casa I could see them through the tarp, so Sunday evenings are always a bit noisy. For the most part people dress the same here as they do at home, minus the winter jackets :) I have noticed they will wear brighter colors but for the most part they way they dress is very American.