Holiday Inn Monterrey-Parque Fundidora

... letters it said "Fashion Evolution". It didn´t look to me like fashion had evolved very far at all.<br><br>The first day I went to see the remains of the old Mexico city that was built by the Aztecs and then pretty much flattened by those friendly conquering Spanish. I ended up doing my job when I met a local guy who wanted to know all about how to go and study in England. Great. He also bored me senseless with tales of how much he loves Coldplay. Bloody Coldplay, everyone loves them ...

... orrore.<br>Per il resto del giorno ci limitiamo a camminare lungo i viali del centro, al momento di salire in camera ci accorgiamo della fatica di essere a 2200 mt, l'ostello è subdolo tu credi di dover salire al terzo piano, ma loro hanno due piani non conteggiati (dove c'è la cucina e l'altro con la sala tv) così in realtà devi arrivare al quinto. Dobbiamo organizzarci bene, perchè una volta scesi, se ti accorgi di aver dimenticato qualcosa, sono tutti cavoli tuoi risalire!!

... one of them is moving out this week but someone else is moving in in January. My landlady is a completely nuts American woman but she looks after us well! As for Christmas... I decided that there was no point in attempting to make it like home and I might as well do something totally different so in true Charles Dickens Christmas Carol stylee, I am volunteering at a kids home. A lot of my friends are going to the beach but as I dont get any time off, I cant go with ...

... man who was so furious about the ways of the world that he was muttering obscenities the entire time he was there and a Mexican woman who had her passport stolen. Just another day at the office. Upon completion of the police report, MacGyver was questioned once more by a higher ranked police officer, as if there was more than an element of doubt in the story. A few minutes later, MacGyver and his amiga got directed outside ...

... I met- a Mexican woman and a Dutch man. They've, in turn, introduced me to some of their friends, and have been incredibly kind to me. (They are the ones I ate pizza with.) Pizza with friends may sound mundane compared to climbing pyramids, but it´s a huge blessing, and I´ve enjoyed spending my time this way. (As an aside- kindness, especially in it´s simplicity, is incredibly beautiful and everywhere in my life right now ...

... discoveries... Thursday Ale and I went to the beautiful Coyoacan neighborhood, full of old and colorful homes, lazy overhanging trees, and a cafe from the 1950s that's so small it has no indoor seating, only benches to sit on outside. Two attractions in this neighborhood are intertwined--Trotsky's home and the Frida Kahlo museum. Frida, cult of personality that she has, is a hugely popular artist here and internationally. The museum, housed in the Blue ...

... r trevliga, och det mesta är billigt. Fast vin verkade kosta nästan mer än hemma i Sverige, men det kanske bara var mataffärerna jag var inne i som var snobbiga. Stadsplaneringen här är jättekonstig. I alla fall vad jag har sett hittills. Allting är gjort extremt mycket för att ha bil och det går jättestora gator överallt. Det verkar vara en stor utmaning att ta sej mer än ett par kvarter gående. Jag bor på ett hotell i ett område som heter Tecnológico (efter universitetet där ...

I am sure those of you that are reading, hoping for some sort of interesting update are getting annoyed... especially John's friends... so! Here! Today! Something of great interest :) We are now in Mexico City! Yay! And John is sick! Not Yay! Nothing to worry about, just a sore throat. NO, he did not eat something weird, or drink the water. He started getting sick in Toronto. He is sleeping, and I am hoping he will be his normal perky self by morning. We had a pretty ...

... wise and we cannot figure out how or why. But, they seem to know. Although, the cars are in very bad shape, had already 10 lives. Before we arrived, we read in our guide that we should only take official taxi's. CERTAINLY not the beetles. Those beetles abduct people, take them to an ATM and steal all their money. Even kill them. What do we see: 1000s of taxi beetles. All over. They cannot be all robbers and murderers?! But we promised to be ...

... a classic gringo mistake of exposing too much skin. I felt actually really bad about it - but the next morning everything was fine (and I was dressed well before anyone else emerged). 4) One of the most thought provoking conversations I had with Baudelio (me in spanish him in english) was about what he hoped for by having i-to-i volunteers with AMMAC. He hopes that we get to see and understand a part of Mexico that we otherwise might not have, and he also ...