Calinda Quality Veracruz

Me and my bag have had some issues and it decided to go on a little trip on its´own for 19 hours! It went down to the state of Oxacala, which i hear is quite nice this time of year. My bag seemed to enjoy it and came and joined me in Veracruz the next morning. I was rather ****** off though as it went without letting me know and the poor quality of my Spanish came to light when i was ...

I went all the way from Papantla which is about 100 mile north of Veracruz to 100 east of Villahermosa. THAT. Is a LOT of miles. The roads were VASTLY improved compared to the previous two days ...

Good morning! The sun in shining in Veracruz and I have finished packing. Today we leave for Puebla and I'm saddened to hear that the drive is only about 3 hours long. I wish it was more as I could greatly use the sleep but c'est la vie! I'll get what I can!<br><br>Last night we performed for a crowd of over 300 people and what a receptive audience they were. It seemed small since the venue we were in held almost 4,000 people, but this crowd definitely made ...

... why, when I first came to Denver to join the cast, staff members and UWP alumni kept telling me that people back home won't understand certain things that I will experience. <br><br>My response was, "Then I need to figure out better words to use."<br><br>But now, I understand. There is this moment during each experience that hits all of us - whether it be a moment of joy, a moment of surprise, a moment of sadness, or a moment in which a lesson is learned. It's an ephemeral moment ...

... the stories that that site could tell :)<br><br>Today (Thursday) was an awesome day as well. We spent the morning cleaning the Northern part of a Veracruz beach which happens to also be a National Park. It is a popular tourist attraction as well as the home to a large coral reef population and a destination for sea turtles looking to bury their eggs. After sweating profusely and picking up trash for about 2 hours, we went to a local senior citizen ...

... it covered my whole leg) and could not bend my knee until after Christmas. After the surgery, I went back to Concordia, crutches and all, determined to outlast the harsh Moorhead winters. After calling my parents and crying about how many times I had fallen on the ice (not good for bad knees!) my dad surprised me by driving up to Moorhead and taking me to get a wheelchair. During the remaining days before winter break, I decorated my wheelchair in tinsel and gave ...

... minor success. Neither was home and I talked briefly with Linda and Chance at PJ's and was leaving a message for Sandi when I was cut off, as I had been also with Chance. At that time, I thought Chance had made the mistake when he put me on hold to answer another phone, but when it happened again with Sandi and eventually with the Embassy, too, I knew there was something wrong with the phone. So when we got to ...

... my night time strobe came to mind. After seeing a man overboard really happen, it gave me a reality check. It was hard enough to find John in the rising seas during daylight. If he had gone overboard two hours later, we never would have found him, I realized. That night time strobe would be your best chance to live for a night-time man overboard! Not to belay the topic, but there was a sailor lost in heavy seas off of the tip of ...

OK, so this is going to be much longer in the end but I want to add this now so people who are watching my travels can have an update. I am in Tuxpan, Veracruz working with three civil engineers from Mexico City. Two of them speak ok English, and I am doing better than I expecting at spanglish. I have been here for three days and already I am counting and thinking thoughts in Spanish. It´s a total sensory overload, I´m pulling memories out from my high school Spanish classes after they ...

... big cities much then, nor could I handle them very well. I still don&#8217;t like them much, though I can handle them much better now. Veracruz is pretty large itself, but laid-back. But it&#8217;s hot, the summer coming on fast in the tropics. I make tracks up north, next stop Tampico.