I'm a documentarian and it's taking over my life.

The internet says that's a word.

Documentarian, I mean. So, my life has been super uninteresting lately because literally all I've been doing is working on this gosh darn documentary. So I'm about to give you three days worth of updates mostly through pictures and a short video. 

Thursday I got sick and had to stay back from class. I accidentally ate something which had eggs (I'm slightly allergic and they make me sick), chili, some weird herb, and was fried in grease. You couldn't tell there were eggs in it and I didn't even realize that was the problem until my host mom told me. 

Thursday afternoon, however, I powered through to go interview this cool activist who is an expert on our topic. We got a gold mine of information from her. Remember that our theme is privatization of water.

Yesterday we went to UNAM to look for a professor to interview. We got there after he left but got his contact information, so hopefully that will work out. While we were there we walked 38 minutes to the central library to film some dried up fountains that our professor was really pushing because they would be super poetic apparently. They didn't look a lot like fountains. Apparently it's a "water mirror" that they fill up sometimes so it can reflect the interesting designs on the buildings. Below are some pictures from around campus.

Mural near the metro

Dried fountain 

Another mural

Dried water mirror

Mural on the rectoria

Biblioteca central

Rectoria

So I guess I have to admit that, despite the fact that we didn't get home until 8:00 pm and were thoroughly worn out from all the walking, it was a pretty neat chance to see the biggest campus in Mexico and, I believe, one of the biggest ones in the world. Doctor Rodriguez also had a talk there at 5:00, so we actually took the metro over with him, which was a fun chance to talk to him. He's a pretty cool guy turns out, and he seems to really want us to succeed.

Today I ran all over Roma and Condesa with Mandy filming scenes of water and interviewing people on the street. I loved it because I love talking to people, but it was pretty tiring. Below is a lovely video, courtesy of google's auto awesome, which shows a lot of the filming I did. 

Enjoy! After we finish this big documentary we will be doing 2 minute personal ones, which I'm actually excited for. I will hopefully be able to post again tomorrow, but I also have an informe and two 4 page ensayos to do, technically any time up till a week after this course, but since that's the one week I have at home before Spain I feel like I need to get them done before I leave Mexico. I promise I'm not ignoring you guys! Trying to make a 20 minute documentary in one week is a struggle.