la UNAM

universidad nacional autonoma de mexico. my new school.

• founded in 1910 by justo sierra
• considered the largest university in the americas in terms of student population
• home to hundreds of student protests
• host of the 1968 olympics, where tommie smith and john carlos raised their fists in black power, forever banning them from the olympic games
• on the list of unesco's world heritage sites

la biblioteca central. knowledge spilling from the bookshelves. students desperately cramming for exams. when i walked in here it smelled just like carleton's libe. must be a good place for a long nap. mosaic done by juan o'gorman.


at the foot of the biblioteca.


a pretty building.


walking to some classrooms.


light reading.


el estadio olimpico.


me! and the campus bus i take.


classes begin on monday, from 9am-12pm monday-friday. i placed in the level of basic 4. a little frustrating considering how much i have studied spanish. but that's what i get for not speaking that much for the past seven years.

and if you're wondering, i did survive the mini-earthquake on wednesday nite. although it felt like someone, perhaps god, picked up my room and shook it just a little bit to say, "hey, don't forget you're in mexico." how could i?