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I visited Guanajuato for over a week of time, a small town where I spent 1 year studying 8 years ago. Not much has changed, only less small family owned shops but more tourist attractions. The streets are still the same but no more foreign students (due to the drug & war problems).

Everything's the same price but it's 40% cheaper to me since the exchange rate is like HK$2.2 to 1 peso while it was HK$1.3 to 1 peso. 

Friendship is the same I had friend picking me up from the airport at 6am, friend who travelled 2 hours to bring me her homecooked mole with chicken, who tried to spend as much time as possible with me during my stay. But then I was in shock that my teachers of 1 year just welcomed me and received my gifts and not even a coffee together, especially this one who always invited me out for coffee and converstaion because she's super interested in Chinese culture and I thought we're friends, we're connected in facebook too. I asked her to have a cup of coffee with me and catch up, she said she's busy. So we ended up only talking like 15 mins in school. I loved all my teachers and I even sent them gifts 2 years ago when a girl from there visited Hong Kong. They're my first customers before I really mastered jewellery and I always have the gratitude towards them. I'm impressed they actually treated me like a "stranger" but then still felt happy to receive my gifts. I wouldn't be able to do that.

I was of course a bit upset because I wanted to catch up with them that's why I showed up in school. But maybe I should put myself into their shoe, they might never be able to travel abroad so there's no meaning to be nice to me.

It's an experience reminding me to look at people more carefully and stop being nice to everyone. But then I don't think I'm gonna change to be smarter (although I remember the experience from Mexico so well and the above is all my true feeling, which is sad, shocked and disapointed), because I've met so many wonderful people in my life, who're so giving, caring and wonderful to me, I rather be part of these people than those other people. 

I visited a fd who I met in Guanajuato and we only hanged out for less than 10 times, spent few days in her home in Oregon, her family is amazing and she tried so hard to make me feel comfortable; but then a good friend I spent half years together couldn't even fly to Oregon from Chicago to meet me because she needed to save $ for Hawaii. Then I have a friend who is poor and out of job, she spent over US$500 on the flight just to spend few days with me in Vegas.

The more I know about human nature, the more I feel bad about it.

But we shouldn't change, although I know it's difficult not to think negative about people. But try think about giving is a bliss, you can give becasue you can afford it ------ yeap think about it and keep reminding ourselves.