Aristos Puebla

... and peanut butter. I have a jar of peanut butter in my suitcase.

Today was our host family day (which meant sleeping in!) and when Ronja and I went downstairs for breakfast (totally content on having cereal and/or toast) we had a huge buffet waiting for us! We had gelatina (gelatine) with a huge strawberry in the middle, champola caliente (hot chocolate with milk and cinnamon), churros (a cinnamon pastry) and two types of tacos. So delicious!

After breakfast ...

... activity this week. I became part of a village on Thursday, helping to raise not one child but more than 20 children. Thursday brought so many blessings :)

My community impact activity was to work at a kindergarten/elementary school. Myself, along with Sarah (CO), Yunjie (China), and Wei (China) took a bus to a nearby kindergarten/elementary school to teach small groups of children for 20 minutes per group. There were 6 groups total. Our curriculum ...

... and his mother lives there with her son and daughter (Edgardo's brother and sister). Ronja and I have our own room and they even moved a television in our room for us. How nice of them! She has two cats - one is big and black and the other is a golden, playful kitten.


Tuesday was our first full day in Puebla - Regional Learning Day. It was an awesome day! We were split into 2 groups and my group went a tour of Puebla first. Traveling in a double decker bus, we ...

... on the crazy Mexican chicken buses that way! She arrived and it was nice to finally meet her. Another person off couchsurfing I have been talking to over the internet for quite awhile. We dumped our packs at her house and heading into the centre for dinner. It was good to have someone who actually knew what we were ordering and to be able to explain what was on every dish! We have had some hit and miss experiences with food so far, because we have only had a partial ...

Puebla est la capitale de l'Etat du même nom, située à 110 km de Mexico, encerclée par les volcans Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl et Malinche. C'est la quatrième plus grande ville du Mexique, où se situe l'usine Volkswagen qui produisait les célèbres ...

... Looks like we were going to have our work cut out to do them all in one day!! Our taxi to the bus terminal was reminiscent of Cambodia, bit of chicken wire here and there and speedy gonzalas as the driver!! Backpacking was definitely back! The bus totally surprised us, it had air con the lot, and this definitely wasn't reminiscent of previous bus experiences earlier in our trip, where was the brick holding up the radiator like in India and the ...

... is a day trip to the small town that began with the discovery of silver...they sell lots of genuine silver things there for very cheap that are the highest possible concentration of real silver....the rest of the time we will be farther away, the itinerary will be up tomorrow, i am not tired but need to sleep if i2m going to because I need to be ready to walk out the door in 6 hours...i didn't realize it had gotten so late! bye!!

... gold flames -- the crowd roars when I enter the ring. The "chickens" cower. - Catherine Conner Guellermo el Conquistador - Mary Kennon Don't forget to check out more pictures at our travelpod: www.Travelpod.com Search for Puebla Team Thanks so much to all the participants, and to all of you for following our journey, Muchas Gracias, Molly, Melissa, y Sean

... they only caught one fish, but on the boat ride out I saw turtle and manta rays somersaulting out of the water. I felt quite sorry for the fisherman so decided to purchase their entire catch for 7 dollars. Later we barbecued the fish and I was persuaded into eating one of the eyes, which was quite unappetising. Pretty much half way through the Mexican trip and was looking forward to what would probably be the highlight - the Mayan route. This is a tour through the ...