¡Mexico!

So I think this is the best time in Mexico I've had so far. I've been to Oaxaca three times and Cuernavaca once. The group from the university in my hometown is small and compact...they're all muy padre and I like them. I get sick everytime I come to Mexico. Of course, I think I'm still paying for what I did to my body this entire semester in college. I'm never doing that again. I was getting sick the last few days of the semester, and I only had two or three days after I left school before we left for Mexico. I didn't get as ridiculously sick as I should have because my sister bought me some good preventive medicines and I slept the entire day before going home to pack my things. Anyway, I came down with illness before we were one week into our Mexico trip. I've been sick since Friday, when I became really tired, my whole body ached, and I could feel a fever coming on. Advil is from God, but it wears off. I have spent most of the past two days in my bed, so tired and feeling so weak and helpless. Quite an odd feeling to realize how weak you are. But dang, the view from my window is awesome! We spent most of the first week at the seminary in Xoxo, now we are all with different families in their homes, and next week we are going back to the seminary before we return to Tejas. I have my own room in this house! I love the view, especially at night! We are on the mountains, so you can see all the lights from the houses and things. I am going to take pictures, so I will post those on here. I think my understanding of Spanish is getting better...this has been a great trip so far, except for the sickness.

Weird, but true. My first choice was the cover with Toby flying through the air into the crowd...

I just got to see four possible choices for the front cover of Toby's live album (kind of like when I got to choose his last album title? I chose Portable Sounds, and that's what it ended up being). And can I say that all of the choices were aamazing? I was feeling all of them. Odd that two of them featured a cool pic of Toby against a backdrop of a yellow background. This is odd because for Portable Sounds, I had envisioned the disc containing a lot of yellow and black in its color scheme. Yellow just seemed like Toby's color. I told Sarah about it and she understood as well...we began to see these sweet little yellow sports cars and point out, "There's Toby's car..." I guess that sounds weird, but it makes sense to us. Sarah's boyfriend (now husband) even began to point out Toby cars. It makes perfect sense to see Toby riding around with shades in one of those cars. It's just so him.

I finally got to relax tonight and watch some Thursday night basketball. My Lake Show is doing incredible...one of the top three teams in the league, I think. Pau Gasol is doing an amazing job. Kobe was killin', and Derek Fisher is still my hero. I saw the starting lineup and I thought, "Now this is a team that feels classic." It just has that classic feel. I'm excited. I actually played in two intramural bball games here at HSU...one last week and one on Tuesday night. I sucked, but I still want to keep playing. The team I joined (late) lost Tuesday's game, and it knocked us out of the tournament. The team was called "Those Idiots"...funny stuff. The players were all kind, and good players.

Humm...so much going on with music right now. I'm recording some stuff in the studio (where I work) and what I've come up with is definitely interesting. I'll let y'all check it out soon. Leave me some love here if you read this. I want to know if this post is read. Um, I still suck at the violin, but sometimes I really love it. The HSU Orchestra is playing some extremely cool pieces...I hope we can pull it all together for our concert, which is next Friday! We're doing a full requiem with the concert choir, and a piece with an internationally known guest guitarist. It's good stuff. Too bad we'll miss the Newboys at Abilene Christian University. Crummy classical music.

I'm really excited because I can feel God bringing me up and taking me somewhere. I don't know where, but it's gonna be good...I've just gotta make it through haters if people in my life don't like what I'm doing. I don't know where this post came from...I usually can't figure out what I want to say. Now I'm flowin'. I guess my writing class is paying off, or something. Either that or it's just 'cause I write down random stuff in my notebook all the time, and I had a private journal that I was using for my flowing thoughts. Good stuff. Take it easy.

Wait, I think this post came because I don't care what people think anymore.

Thank God the Lakers finally got rid of Kwame Brown!!!

Now we've got Pau Gasol!!!!!!!!!!!!