Hostal del Arcangel Puebla

... and peanut butter. I have a jar of peanut butter in my suitcase.<br><br>Today was our host family day (which meant sleeping in!) and when Ronja and I went downstairs for breakfast (totally content on having cereal and/or toast) we had a huge buffet waiting for us! We had gelatina (gelatine) with a huge strawberry in the middle, champola caliente (hot chocolate with milk and cinnamon), churros (a cinnamon pastry) and two types of tacos. So delicious!<br><br>After ...

... 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 ...

Hello from Puebla, Mexico!<br><br>What a beautiful city. I absolutely love it here and am having a fabulous time. I am so excited to tell you all about it!<br><br>I must first apologize, however. I love writing in my blog and sharing my adventures with you. However I also having an absolutely wonderful time getting to know my host families, spending time with them and sharing in their culture. Thus, at times, writing in my blog falls a few spaces on my priority list.<br><br>But you get ...

... end of the station for 33 pesos per person and 5 minutes later were on a bus with 4 other Japanese tourists for the 1 hour ride to Teotihuacan. Contrary to what LP reported, the buses to Teotihuacan only stop at Gate 1 early in the morning. We got off in the middle of nowhere, Mexico, flagged down a taxi and headed back to Gate 1 for 20 pesos, bought tickets for 51 pesos each and at 8:30 a.m., found ourselves sprinting down the Avenue of the Dead to make the ascent of Pyramid ...

... great day! We drove around the Zocalo and checked out the massive cathedral that was ridiculously ornate inside. We went to the artisian markets and Ian couldn´t resist buying a poncho. Then we headed to a huge church on a hill on the outskirts of town which was very cool and gave amazing views of the city. Then off to Cuexcomate - the smallest volcanoe in the world...a grand height of 13m tall! It is in the middle of a ...

... are a little cramped, but are still good value for money. <br><br>Another good budget to midrange option is Hotel Centro Historico, 4 Poniente No. 506, Tel: 01 (222) 246 8942. The refurbished modern rooms are kept in pristine condition but are a tad on the small side. Their rates were 250 peso for 1 or 2 persons. <br><br>Hotel Provincia Express, Avenida Reforma No.141, Tel: 01 (222) 246 3537. This pleasant midrange hotel is as ...

... wall, it must hit the wall and either bounce between the long and short line or come all the way back to the wall behind you. Either way the opposing player must catch the ball and throw/sling it immediatly back to the far wall. Play contuinues until this does not happen, then a point is scored. When i watched they were just playing for fun, not an official game. The ball must land smoothly in the pocket, roll down and back up without ...

... 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 ...

Tscha, was n das fuern foto...4 Leute haengen kopfueber an nem Seil, drehen sich dabei um nen Pfahl und spielen Musik...dabei dreht sich das seil ab bis sie auf dem boden ankommen....hat urspruenge in der indio vergangenheit, aber was es ist und soll weiss ich nicht...falls es jemand weiss, comment please... Ich war heute an ...

... 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 ...