Holiday Inn Express Puebla

... 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!

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 :)

First we walked to a nearby market. Sunday ...

... away from me!

After the first group left, we talked about what had happened during the first 20 minutes and what we could have done better. We felt that we had started off too strong, playing such a difficult game right away. We decided to start the next session with a game: The "Go Bananas" game. This is a game that we first learned to play at the elementary school in Chino Valley.

We actually got some smiles! And laughs! It was so awesome!
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... requesting that their burgers and fries be put on plates. Pretty cool think about, huh?


Concordia recently did something similar by going completely trayless - as in they don't use trays anymore as they are unnecessary and save on energy and water consumption. My boyfriend, Matt, and I did this later year and it was so easy to do! Such little things save so much :)


As we are working on becoming a greener cast, I have a "go green" challenge for all of ...

... town visiting family but lives in america and likes tourists to have a good time. Why not we ask!!! After our beer we walk aroudn a bit but find that the town is completely and utterly deserted so back to the hostel (to find we had been locked out and it took them 20 minutes to find the right key!). Next morning, having breakfast at the hostel when Enrique (our new friend) and his girlfriend rock in to take us around. What ...

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Le centre de la ville est inscrit au patrimoine de l'UNESCO pour sa très belle architecture coloniale, dont la magnifique cathédrale.

Gastronomiquement, Puebla est réputée pour être la ville d'origine du mole y les chiles en nogada.

... place to stay....this time the hotel was absolutely beautiful (Hostal Santa Maria) but we didn't know that the cafe in its courtyard would play music until 2am while all Mexicanos' cigar-smoke escaped exclusively into our little chamber. ...let's hope we are luckier in Mexico City.

... has a "glove"-glove with a long somewhat narrow basket attatched. On the court "in bounds" is a serving area (3 smaller squares) and a "long" and "short line". The long line is appoximatly 1/2 way down the court and short is about 3/4 of the way down. The ball is about the size of a raquet ball, but hard and somewhat bouncy. When you serve the ball you bounce it 2 times and then catch it in the basket and immediatly sling it to the ...

... and processed in Mexico City. We had 40 patients in total which isn´t bad at all. Hopefully they will find the results of the preliminary research in about a month. This is an ongoing investigation so the patients that we took samples from will be tested every two years. We had a lot of fun taking patient histories and blood samples from the ...

... were all laughing the way he said it so
dramatically.
Returning to the hotel, I asked Pollo to teach me some Spanish. We sat
in the hotel lobby and learned Spanish words. I guess I really didn't use
the Spanish words so much at the end of my trip. I was just too worried
about doing anything in Mexico without knowing any Spanish. Later I found
that Janet wanted me to buy her a turkey leg but I didn't...

... time as possible in this city because of crime or its too busy or whatever, but this is a mistake. This is the cradle of one of the greatest empires of the Americas...the Aztecs. It used to be the capital Tenochtitlan. An island city built in the middle of a lake. The Aztecs were more warlike than other indian cultures. However when Hernan Cortes made his way to Mexico with his conquisatdors, they welcomed him with open arms. You could call it great timing on Cortes's part or bad ...