Thankful

I'm thankful for...

Family- thanks for all your emails, support and encouragement. I wish I could be home today and spend it with you guys but I love monterrey too. Have a fun day. Im excited to see you guys in less than one month.

Friends- "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget." I love all my friends from SUU and miss you guys like crazy. Im excited for next semester. I LOVE all the friends I have made here and seriously hope we stay in touch and maybe visit. I love my BFFs from T-ville and I couldnt live without you guys in my life.

Gospel- I love the church and I know its true! I am thankful for our savior! Im thankful for great ward members. Sister Cotrell has helped me soo much even since before I came to Monterrey- so Im thankful for her. Im thankful for institute! Im thankful for the best friends I have made there. Im thankful for my visiting teachers. Im thankful for family home evening. Im thankful for the temple! Im thankful for missionaries.

Mexico- Im soo glad I came here! I love it tons and I have learned so much! I love spanish and I want to continue studying it. I am thankful for my internship at MIC and all the people I work with there. I am thankful for all the exchange students- tonight we are doing thanksgiving dinner at brandon and booths house and I made turkey cupcakes- Im thankful for you!! Yes you! Love you! Have a great day and remember to be thankful!

Chipinque

I love the mountains!! Me, Miia, Felipe and Rosa went on a little hike up the canyon and it was so beautiful!

We took a bus to get there and entertained ourselves with this little pipe cleaner for quite some time. haha. and learned how to whistle! pretty sure the bus driver wanted to kill us. best friends!

Pumped at sign number 1.

still excited.

A million stairs.
about to die!! haha but almost to the top

and we made it! by the time we got to the top it was night but it was so beautiful seeing all of Monterrey! I sure will miss this city

We had a picnic and hung out. It was lots of fun! Then we went to Miia's house and played games.

I'm in LOVE

with a fictional character! haha. I LOVE EDWARD CULLEN!! I love the movie Twilight. I love all 4 books and would recommend them to everyone! Seriously the best!

Us 5- Eleany, Vale, Andrea, me and Pau saw the movie at the VIP Theaters on Thursday- opening night!! It was a blast. I already saw it again on Saturday. I love it!

Lunch Time...Schools out!

I cannot believe how fast this semester flew by! The first month was exciting but hard to adjust and after I made friends and started getting into a routine the time seriuosly went by too fast! My last day of school here at UDEM is tomorrow- I have 2 finals and 1 more final on Thursday then I'm done! I have learned SOO much this semester and had a blast! I am soo thankful that I did study abroad and I would reccommend it to anyone interstered- especially here in Monterrey!

Everyday between classes we have like 1 1/2 hour lunch break and usually eat outside enjoying the sunny weather. I am pretty sure I hear German, Dutch, Spanish, English, and French everyday. I wanted pictures of our lunchtime but my friends were not being very cooaperative haha.
Sofie, Claire and Charlotte (Belgium)Pierre, Pierre, Nicolas and Charlotte (France)

Matti and Tomi (Finland)

Miia (Finland) and Lena (Germany)

Mexico City Temple Dedication

Sunday was one of the best days ever! We went to the temple dedication and got to hear the prophet and Elder eyring speak. I have never felt the spirit so strong. It was beautiful and amazing. I cant wait to get married in the temple one day!

Afterwards we went to Zocalo- which is like downtown and went to museums, cathedrals, saw really awesome cultural dances, people selling cheap stuff. We took some great pictures but they are on Juan's camera...so i will add more when I get them. Overall we had a great trip!! I LOVE my friends!

MEXICO CITY and pyramids

Mexico city was so fun!! On Saturday first we went to the Pyramids and it was so awesome. It was a LOT of stairs to get to the top. and the view was spectacular. One top of the Sol pyramid there is a little crystal rock on the top in the center and supposedly if you touch it and the sun shines on you, you feel energized. It was really cool. It felt awesome to stand where the savior stood when he visited the americas and think about the pyramids- the sun, moon and stars and see all the Mormon church history from the Nephites.

After we climbed the Sun pyramid everyone was super tired and didnt wanna climb the Moon one, but Juan and I did so we were like oh we will just hurry and RUN up it. NOT a good idea. haha. Of course, clumsy me tripped up the freaking steps of the pyramid with a crowd of people watching me. Skinned my leg a little but hopped up and continued quickly to the top. It was worth it! lol.

We crawled through some tunnels haha.

all 6 of us- Juan Carlos, Sandy, Poncho, Eli, Me, Lazaro

The houses and buildings there are so colorful and cool. A friend from Ponchos mission let us stay at her house which was so nice and her little girls are adorable. It was fun.

People do the WEIRDEST things to earn money here. There are people trying to sell you stuff everywhere you go. And when you stop at a red light people try to sell you newspaper and wash your car for money. Even if you dont want it. haha

That night we went to a cultural event where the Prophet and his wife spoke and all the youth did awesome Mexican Cultural dances. It was soo much fun and really amazing. The stadium was full to the max and you can just feel how much love the Mexican people have for the prophet and how excited they are for the temple dedication. At the end all the girls sang sisters of zion and the guys sang Armies of Heleman, then we all sang Called to Serve. The spirit was so strong and we were so happy! I love the prophet and its cool to see how strong the members of our church are here. I LOVED all the dances.

We rode the metro and it is always jammed packed and a little scary. But we made it and nothing got stolen. Wahoo.

Puebla

We had a 12 hour drive....6 of us in a 5 seat car= LOVE... fighting with love haha. No im kidding it was a blast. We took lots of fun pictures! But unfortunately most of them are on Juan's camera so i will just add a few I have for now.

Me and SandyBeautiful Puebla

We stopped and ate yummy mexican food!Lazaro, Poncho, Juan Carlos, Sandy

In Puebla we went to the park with Juan's little cousins, played hot lava tag on the cool letters(M is for Matthew the Missionary that I Love), saw the city, his aunt made us yummy mexican food.
Below is a way cool tree that is made out of broken dishes- so cool!

Eli, prima, sandy, lazaro, me, primo

Parque Fundadora

i love nature and playing at the park

Girls Out

We didnt feel like going to class one day so we got Tapiocas and hung out. I love Andrea and Pau!

Last Friday I went to the movies with Andrea, Gaby, Jessica. We had a fun night.

Yahoo!!!!!

So Im finally going on vacation! I need a break from school so Im excited. Im going to Mexico city with 5 of my good friends from institute. We are going to the pyramids, cultural events, and temple! I will take lots of pics and post about it when I get back. So dont worry if I dont post for a few days haha. Love you all so much. Affirmative- I changed my flight to the 16th of december- just one more month. YAY.

Nickname Guera

So the other day I was talking to David on messanger and he's like what do they call you in Mexico? And also when I meet people they say okay your name is Sharlene and what are you called? For me both of these questions were really weird- obviously I am named sharlene and they call me, well Sharlene. But then I came to realize how many people go by nicknames and how many nicknames I have. Beside the fact that some people call me Charr, or Char-len-ay or Char-len because of the spanish accent everyone also calls me guera (pronounced gWeda) which means Blonde. Also guerita (blondie), chaparrita (shortie), cuerita (cutie). Its so funny. A LOT of guys here go by Pancho, Pepe, other nicknames and their name has nothing to do with those names. its funny.

Studio and more fun from MIC

I love my internship at Mercadotecnia Inteligente Consultores. If you need marketing done for a business of any size please visit our webpage at http://www.mic.com.mx/. Coming soon will be the translations in English. This is our crew:

Last Wednesday we had a photoshoot for pictures for our webpage and advertisements and stuff like that. It was lots of fun and like always- I learned a LOT. Jessica you should open a studio- its soo fun!

On Halloween we dressed Ulises up haha and I think he might kill me if he sees that I put these pictures online. He is seriously so funny and nice and always helps me improve my Spanish. We have fun and work a lot too of course.

Gaby, Me, Cris in the office