Mexican Bus System

So as I've already mentioned to most of you, I spend a lot of time on the buses here in Mexico... between 2.5 and 3.5 hours a day depending on the traffic. Let me just tell you, buses here are full of excitement. In my not even 2 weeks here I have been in 2 buses as they have been pulled over by the police. One time we ran a red light and the other time I have no idea what happened. But everyone on the bus seemed like it was completely normal. No one even sighed or said anything. I sat there giggling to myself. From what I have heard, the police are really corrupt and you can buy your way out of pretty much everything. Apparently, the bus drivers just pay them to not mark it on their record or turn it in. Good one Mexico.
Another thing that happens when you are in buses in Mexico is that you will probably go the wrong way on roads. For example... On the 2nd leg of my trip to La Raza, there is a ton of construction so everyone on the highway is completely stopped. In order to get past a chunk of this traffic, the bus drivers have decided to get onto the high way by going the wrong way on the off ramp and then making a u-turn onto the stopped traffic in the high way. Again I say- Good one Mexico. The first time that happened I again was looking around to see if anyone was surprised by what was going on and again... it was completely normal.
Along the same lines- tonight there was a lot of traffic (as always) because of construction and a detour and we were stopped. We were still on the main road not even to the detour yet. A section of the road was closed. There was no one coming from the other direction (it was kind of like a divided high way) so what did we do? Let me tell you. We sped up to probably about 50 mph down that road going the wrong way bypassing almost all of the traffic and entering where the road opened again. Who knows how many people followed us.
That is the excitement of the day. Tomorrow we're going out to the streets to hunt down some Chavos (not kids lol).