Dona Urraca Hotel and Spa Queretaro

... sentence or two together when I need to. I'll no doubt have more to report at the end of the week.

Oh - I'm not sure how the photos work - some of them have captions but I don't know if the captions come up when you view the photos as a slide show. It might be necessary to just look at them without the slide show if you're interested in the captions. If anyone can figure it out - ie how to watch the slide show with captions, please let me know.

Salud!

... roja torta (a tamale with red chili and cheese put inside bread!) and some delicious chocolate atole. I stood around with other people and ate my warm breakfast and watched as vendors put up their wares in their market stalls.

I headed over to the school and received a warm welcome from the staff before my first lesson. I then headed into the room named "Chiapas" (which was decorated with beautiful tapestries from the state of Chiapas ...

... the bus arrived. I wheeled my suitcase to the side of the bus and then got on. The bus was far nicer than any Greyhound I'd ridden in the past. The seats were comfy and spacious and there was a leg rest that you could pull out. I laid back in my seat and relaxed as the bus made it's two and a half hour trip up to Queretaro.

When I got off the bus and went to get my suitcase, I saw that people were ...

... coté du resto "Los compadres"), les concerts en plein air du dimanche sur les nombreuses places de la ville...

Très peu de touristes étrangers car elle n'apparait pas tellement dans les guides touristiques (très injustement mais tant mieux pour nous finalement)

Une excelente journée sous un ciel on ne peut plus bleu et une chaleur accablante...

... t had a single room with fan & it's really starting to warm up - deliberately left behind one pair of trousers the other day! - I know most of these places are 1500 - 2000m, with little humidity, but still gets sticky with no breeze and hideous synthetic sheets & pillowcases (0% cotton). I don't know how they managed to breed these mossies as very little rain - sheer maliciousness I think!

... br>Nous passons donc toute la journée à nous ballader dans les ruelles et les nombreuses places, tout en dégustant les spécialités locales. Le soir nous avons la chance d'assister à une "estudiantina", des groupes folkloriques qui se promènent dans la rue en chantant des airs typiques et en dansant. (regardez les vidéos).

Nous terminons par une soirée arrosée à la tequila...

... dorm rates were 110 peso and the private rooms were 250 + 300 peso for one or two persons, with the nicer room's being upstairs. This had everything that you would expect from a decent hostel - guest kitchen, laundry service, rooftop terrace, lounge area with VCR, library and internet.

Dona Urraca, 5 de Mayo No. 117, Tel. + 52 (442) 238-5400 ...

My grammar class is very easy right now, but she told me that it will get more dificult later on. My communciation and composition classes are very good. I like my profesors a lot and I think that my clases will be a lot of fun. I called my daddy today. I was very excited to hear his voice. I love Mexico ...

... to me? What progress have I made? What have a learned? Were the things that stressed me out really important? Was I so caught up that I neglected to pay attention to the things that really are important? What benefit would there have been in keeping doing what I was doing? I mention this because I am sure that some (although suprisingly few) of my friends and probably a larger part of my family probably do not understand why the thing I want to do more than ...

... that at one time there were 140 religious here. Today there are 27. For lunch we stopped in a plaza and had a tuna sandwich, a cheese sandwich and a coke, all for less than $1.30 for both of us. We love sitting in the plazas watching the students in their uniforms, the children with their parents, workers, etc. Everyone seems happy and enjoying life. Another general observation: unlike the tourist areas of Mexico where vendors can hassle tourists, it is a ...