Fiesta Inn Puebla Finsa

... Ronja and I got ready for the day. It was a beautiful day but cold. I dug through the bottom of my suitcase and got out a sweater! It felt so good to wear a sweater in Mexico!<br><br>As I had previously mentioned, our host dad had wanted to take us to the ancient ruins in Mexico. Unfortunately, he had to do some last minute work. His 17 year-old son and his son's girlfriend picked us up instead! They had a definite plan in mind :)<br><br>First we walked to a nearby market ...

... 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 :)<br><br>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 ...

... Europe - songs by ABBA, Queen, and songs in Finnish, Dutch and Swedish! It's going to be great :)<br><br>Some members of our group have a great presentation today about the environment. We learned about different types of energy and which countries specialize in each type. Then the group issued a challenge to our cast involving food waste and consumption. <br><br>First, our cast is going to try to reduce our food waste. For example there were over 10 uneaten lunches today. All of that ...

... ist: Niederschlag. Und wenn, dann richtig! Der Himmel verdunkelt sich und es hagelt grosse Eiskoerner. Gut, dass wir da gerade im Hotel waren, um uns waermere Sachen anzuziehen nachdem die Sonne verschwunden war. Allein der Laerm der Hagelkoerner auf dem Dach macht klar, wie heftig der Niederschlag ist. Nach etwa einer halben Stunde ist der Spuk auch schon wieder vorbei, und wir koennen erneut in die Stadt aufbrechen. Die Kathedrale ist riesig und ...

... Lonely Planet describes, but it's a shame there prices are 100 peso out. The current rates are 350 + 450 peso for 1 or 2 persons and not the 260 + 350 that Lonely Planet states. A room with 2 beds you're looking at 570 peso for 2 persons. At the end of the day, the rooms are simple and well overpriced especially when you see what else is around. <br><br>At the top end Puebla offers some fine boutique accommodation. <br><br>My ...

... of Mexican pastries and headed to town to catch our bus to Puebla. We arrived a little too late in Puebla to catch the next bus to Oaxaca, so we decided to stay around to tour a bit in the town centre before catching a night bus to Oaxaca. The architecture in Puebla was amazingly beautiful thanks to the long colonial presence here. Unfortunately, our camera broke down and so we have no photos. Having stayed in Cuernavaca ...

... way more about it than i do, but i tried to research a solution in the internet, the ones i could actually understand did not work. A few days ago Paco said he was going to ask one of his professors at school for help with the pictures, unfortunatly he did not have any better luck there with different machines and programs, but his professor took copies to continue trying to work with them. i have not yet heard anything back about this attempt and in this case am considering no ...

... to unrest c*used by the left le*ning APPO (*ssemble* popul*r de los pueblos de O*x*co) or Popul*r Assembly of O*x*c*n Vill*ges - *n umbrell* group for r*dic*l left le*ning org*nis*tions who *ccuse the incumbent Governor Ulises Ruiz of *buse of power *nd elector*l fr*ud. The offici*l festiv*l is due to t*ke pl*ce on the 23 *nd 30th July, with tickets going for upw*rd of $38 - * fortune to the *ver*ge O*x*queño. This h*s le*d to c*lls from APPO to boycott the ...

... toward zocalo while I was looking for Santa Clara, the famous<br>restaurant. We stopped and asked a cleaning lady but we could not<br>understand a word. We didn't find it after following the direction she<br>was pointing to. Anyway, we reached the zocalo and picked a restaurant<br>that had a breakfast menu board. Janet got a cup noodle at OXXO before<br>we sat down at the Red Lion restaurant. We waited for a long time<br ...

... the north of Mexico City. They are the ruins of two huge pyramids and an imperial city built around 200 BC to 800 AD. The larger of the two pyramids, the pyramid of the sun, is similar in size to the large Egyptian pyramids. The difference is that these one were used as a temple (on the outside only as they are solid). The priests would have sacrificing ceremonies (including those of humans) on the top of the pyramids to the Gods. We climbed up to the ...