Last night, when I was out, I heard this song that probably everyone knows, with lyrics saying: if I lay here, if I just lay here. Would you lie with me and just forget the world? that made me think about all kinds of things and life in general. The good moments in life deserve more appreciation than they get. And I'm not saying I want to stop the world and stay in one moment, no. But maybe I (and everyone else), should stop every once in a while, to look around and think about all kinds of things, instead of rushing through life, what seems to be the usual case nowadays. I feel like I just want to lay somewhere - in the park, on a rooftop - and watch the stars and think about deep stuff. (Watching clouds drift by would be nice too, but tried to do that the other day, and depending on what time of the day it is, it can be too damned bright, so you might get eye damage instead of some good ol' time filled with existential thoughts. I've had this feeling (to lay somewhere and just be) before, but I do not actually remember ever doing that. When I get the chance I kinda appreciate it, but not the way I think I should be appreciating it.. It's like I forget that I was supposed to appreciate it, when the moment arrives. Or I appreciate it and it and the time passes by really fast and the next day I find myself thinking, how come the time passed by so fast again??? For example, I walked for more than an hour last night, and it was so nice. And when walking I thought, wow, this is so nice. The weather was perfect and I was so happy. And days pass by really fast anyway. It's the end of July already. When did all those days pass? No sé. I really feel the need to start reading The Alchemist again, too. A lot of things make me feel the need, so I think I have to start either today or tomorrow. Not sure if I should try it in Spanish, though.. 

What else, these last few days I've been paying a lot of attention to what houses people have, because I'm looking for a place to live anyway, and it's always interesting. Especially since houses etc are so different here, from what they are in Estonia or the US (houses really look different within the US too, actually, but anyway..). And it's nice here. Really nice. Maybe the neighbourhood is just good, but I'm saying that the houses here have some magic to them that's appeals to me. 

Btw, saw a dead dog yesterday (and also today, there's also a really bad smell around the dog - at least I think it's where the smell comes from). And seeing it made me feel really sad, where as some of my friends said they didn't care at all and even made fun of me being sad about it. And maybe it is ridiculous, but the dog is laying by the street, under a tree. And it's a big street, not a small quiet street! And this is not a place I would want anyone to end up. And I'm not whole big on funerals or anything, but it's so sad that someone would end up like this, with no peace and quiet, people and vehicles passing by all the time, And I think feeling that way should be normal for everyone. I feel bad for the dog (and well all the homeless dogs I've also seen here) and all the homeless people I've seen sleeping on benches (it's not a rare sight, what surprises me actually, is the fact that they choose big busy streets for sleeping, I couldn't sleep with cars passing by all the time! But that of course is a matter of taste..). Anywho, no one should spend their last moments by the busy street, under a random tree, being passed by by strangers, who do nothing (like me), or who make fun of it (like some of my friends), or who don't even notice (for some reason this seemed like the worst of the three to me at first, but I guess it's worse when you notice, but do nothing. But at the same time I did actually notice the surrounding..).

Mangos are growing on me if there is now something that could be done with still finding some pieces between my teeth two-three hours after eating one!!

And another finding: tuna fruta , nom!

I have to say I get all these ideas on what to write, when I'm at work but by the time I get home I'm not going to start writing a new post. It's more like take a quick shower and go to sleep. Or go out like last night. And in the morning it's trying to remember, what I had to say/feeling lazy. Anywho, maybe I'm repeating myself, but I really like México! I am having a good time, I enjoy the people that I work with and that I'm friends with. What's there more to ask!? Maybe less banda? Hahaha. Ok I have to get over banda. It's been pretty funny acutally, that when it's like 11 or 12 pm already and we're starting to close the bar, clean etc, and people sing along to banda. On my first days I thought are people actually screaming along or am I delusional from working my ass off. But it's true, people sing along really loud. And no wonder, they all know these songs. It's just all "new" to me ("new", because it's not that new anymore). It is weird to think that before coming here, I would not listen to Enrique Iglesias, but now it's a nice break from those damn banda songs, hahaha. Some of them they play so often, that Brenda and I have started to sing along in a very loud way (obviously not in tune, and it's so funny!). And I don't know all the lyrics, but it's still funny to just randomly go "..POR SIEMPREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.." together and then start laughing. Or sing about mi mariposa, mi amor. Good times :)
Anywho, a ferw pictures of my lovely coworkers, who I like a lot.

With Caro and Brenda. On the first day, they made us wear those awful hairnets. Life seemed easier before, hahaha

Last night after work, Josue was too scared to be on the same picture with us, but who cares. 

Yesterday, when Alex and I were together in the kitchen (How come they always order burgers and ensaladas, when Brenda has a day off!? We thought we will have to pay for those salads, but thankfully the salads turned out fine!), I started thinking how crazy it is that coming from Häädemeeste, Estonia, I am here in Guadalajara now, making chicken wings in this bar, doing the things I do every day. Living my life etc. I would have never thought I will end up here, in this situation etc. And I love it. I love every moment of not being out of the comfort zone. I even liked (I guess I don't have to be so dramatic about it) doing laundry on my only free day, because it feels better than doing my laundry in Estonia. 

Anyways, wanted to post some pictures of the things that I have done.

This amazing place is just 10 minutes north from Guadalajara, basically on the way to Ixcatan (where we went on the previous time).

At first I thought this is going to be too easy, because we saw the first waterfall when we walked into the jungle from where we left the car by the road. Arturo said that was not where we were going, though..

And we continued going and going, it felt so good to climb and be surrounded by nature. it didn't even feel that hot, because the trees were blocking the sun from being too intense.

And I wasn't joking when I said we had to climb!

There was also a cave...

I think we saw like four waterfalls altogether.

This rock was the one I fell down from, got my legs nicely bruised and shaking heavily!

Climbing these rocks took us a good amount of time, because we were trying to come up with the best strategy..

When I first saw we were supposed to go this way, I thought we would never make it! But going this way actually didn't scare me at all. I guess I left my fear of heights in Springfield..

Found this amazing little pool on the way..

Poolparty!

Finally made it! Legs were not shaking anymore, just wanted to get inside the water already!

We weren't the only people there, surprisingly!

People just started coming down from up there!

That rock was good for jumping too!

We could've obviously climbed some more if we wanted..

Few days ago, Javi and I went to parque Mirador, which is in North-Guadalajara, and as it turns out, the lonely waterfall, that we saw on both previous trips, was the one near parque Mirador (unfortunately they say it is not clean enough for swimming, Andrés and I were really hopeful about that, but nah..). Anywho, I didn't really know what to expect about that park. Arturo had told me that it was on a cliff, but I was still surprised by how pretty it looked!

I definitely want to go back to take some more pictures..

Javi learning his first words in Estonian, hahaha. Lookin' confused. The park has a bunch of viewpoints like that. Javi said that one time he'd been at the park, admiring the view and a guy had climbed up from the other side of the railing like it was the most casual thing and then left. And then we noticed what looked like someone's "home" under one of the viewpoints.

Just passed a bunch of homeless dogs just laying around, that was kinda creepy..

Popular place for couples..

Palm trees :)

Prettty amazing if you ask me..

To celebrate being on the move for four months I decided I should write something before someone says something like "when are you going to post something???" :)

On the evening of the 18th I went to a Couchsurfing meeting with my friend, because he usually goes and I thought well why not. I met my friend at the previous CS meeting and there's nothing to lose! So at the meeting I met this guy, who invited me to go to see some geysers near Guadalajara. And I was a little hesitant at first, because I did not have a job (yeah, I got fired, yay), but when he mentioned swimming I thought I need this!!!

On the evening of the 20th we went out with Raquel and Mara, she said we will go to a bar and then dancing. So obviously I was really excited. But it did not go that way. Raquel's friend came by and took us all to a bar that looked actually pretty cool. A bunch of her friends were there and a lot of other people, because it was Saturday. We saw a lot of people get drunk, while sitting there. The music was pretty good, but when I thought about dancing, some drunk girls started dancing instead, so I changed my mind. In the end I got really pissed, because once again in my life I was waiting for others to help me do the things that I wanted to do and it was not happening, so I felt stupid!How many times will I go to the bar with others when this is not a place where I want to be!? So I just got up and walked home. Noone attacked me, yay!

The trip was on the 21st and in the morning I had to take a bus to Chapultepec, because we were supposed to meet the others there. In a true Mexican way it all got delayed as usual, but I talked to one of the other guys also going, so didn't mind. Finally the car that we were supposed to take arrived and surprise, surprise, it was an old VW bug. They have a lot of those in México. And since we had to fit five of us in that car I was quite excited and we had quite a lot of fun doing our trip the Méxican way, hahaha! The scenery on the way to the geysers was of course beautiful! 

Unfortunately people litter a lot and the place, where we had our little stop to take pictures and enjoy the scenery, looked like a trash yard. 

But we didn't let this bring us down.

Us with our merry bug.

The geysers weren't far away but it took us quite a while to get there, because there were like two signs and there were many random turns with a bad road (one seemingly drunk guy with not a lot of teeth said "go straight, go straight, there are no signs, go straight!" but en español of course, needless to say the road was far from straight!). We actually saw two houses in the middle of woods with a sign that they sell beer there (of course). People gave us directions but it always seemed like after getting new information we turned around a corner and had no idea where we're supposed to go! I think it took us more than half an hour to just drive around looking for the place. We then decided it had taken us enough time to look around and decided that we will enter someone's private property, because we saw a huge waterfall and there seemed to be a road taking us there.

We saw a bunch of cows on the way, watching us and running away from us, like the one on that picture.

Our total company, I had limited possibilities to balance my camera, sorry!

So when we finally reached the geysers, or well hot pools, a guy showed up and said we're not supposed to be there, because it's private property and he can not give us the permission to be there, because he is not the owner. So while some of us were having a really long conversation (en español) with the guy on who knows what, others were taking advantage of the situation by wandering around and taking pictures. Water in the pools was boiling, so the place was really humid. Couldn't help but feel disappointed that we can not continue to go to the waterfall. The road actually ended a little before the pools anyway, so I have no idea how we could've continued from there anyway..

Some of us still have to practice posing at home.

It was pretty massive :)

After getting done with that, we started heading back (a little sad on my part!), thinking we might not reach the waterfall after all (after seeing it I kinda got obsessed with it, because it was so hot!). But on the way back, we found a route in the woods that seemed to be heading towards the waterfall and decided to take it. It didn't go to the waterfall after all so our group divided into two, because for some reason (I was really surprised) only four of us wanted to head down the wall-like mountainside to get down to the waterfall.

It was quite tricky at times, us trying to figure out, which way to take.

We had to cross a small mountain river, it was much steeper than it looks on the picture. Plus the water was hot. At this point I was afraid the waterfall might be too warm for swimming!

Finally we reached the waterfall and basically ran into the water, because it was sooooo nice with the heat! The falling water created wind and "rain" to keep us cool. It was amazing. The pool was mostly quite shallow but had one deeper part by the wall of the cliff too, so something for everyone.

We were obviously happy to be there!

The security system was working.

Cows continued to keep their eyes on us.

We then came back to Guadalajara, where our group went to eat tacos, because we were really hungry! I had tacos with tongue and tried a local egg desert (didn't take pictures, sorry!).

Yesterday I got a new job (out of nowhere, mind you, I thought I am going to have an interview but they wanted me to start right away, not that I minded..). I now work around 100m from my house in a bar called Wings Time, where I make chicken wings and clean in the kitchen. Tonight will be my second day, yay :P

And on St John's Day I was sick. Woohoooo, I felt really weak and might have had a fever. I hope you guys had more fun!

Some interesting things from yesterday:

Mexican food is soooooo good! We had lonche con carne y jugo fresco de naranja (meat sandwich and fresh orange juice)

Cool little frogs

Awwwz

 It wasn't even that hot, but it was still really hot!

Catedral de Guadalajara