Hotel Trebol Oaxaca

... and murders.

There are alot of indigenous people in this part of Mexico. Keith the Australian compared them to "them abbos back home". Nice.

We went to see what might be the smallest museum in the world, the Museum of Mayan Medicine. It explains how the people in this part of Mexico still practise traditional medicines, rather than modern western methods. Apparently skunk urine cures rheutamism, and black spider fangs cure swollen testicles. Try it sometime! The finale ...

... for last orders. We ended up staying for an hour or so and there was a great band playing Irish classics. Got bought some drinks by a couple of Spaniards who I remember speaking to a lot but not if I understood any of it! I do recall having a converstaion with his wife on the telephone at one point though!
Got shown the door around 0415 and the three of us got invited to a party which we excepted and got into a couple of cars but when we arrived it was just us and about ...

... around Oaxaca for a while, me feeling rougher and rougher as the hours went on. Dodgy belly alert, spent the day trying to figure out what it exactly was that I had eaten to make me feel so horrible - still havenīt figured it out.

We emailed home for the first time, checking in and making sure that the parents could sleep easy for a while. We also managed to get our bus tickets for ...

... downtown in a taxi and met us for breakfast. We were also accompanied by Liz, who’s a self-proclaimed foodie staying at La Villada for a few days on her way to a ten-day silent meditation retreat. She’s a bit of an asset, as she comes from both Cuban and Mexican blood and her Spanish is fluent. We had breakfast on 'Mexico time’, as the tour "bus" that was scheduled to arrive sometime around 9:30 showed up a bit after 10. It was actually a four-door sedan ...

... to find mango at night wasnīt successful...instead i got a small choclate, choclate milk and choclate cookies and headed home.. living in a hostel is fun and deniably comfortable...though im really looking forward my first night at my new place... can i finally go to bed when i want to without exhausting my sandisk every night? perhaps...hopefully.. mind going to the loclas Abastos market to get one... a lamp would be good as well, and smth to replace the ...

... to find the house I staying in. I literally asked 15 different people and each one gave me different directions and times. One guy told me to go straight for 20 minutes. LOL! I road one minute and the sign said safe travels, it was the way out of town! It's ok, it only took me 3 hours to finally get there. Yes, 3 hours. I got a hold of the school and they told ...

... female religious) to live but, in more difficult times, a place where some of the Mexican army was stationed. (Now that really does it!) Most of what we would call the churchyard, as in Grey's Elegy, is actally a huge Botanical Garden - which is a totally awesome sight as seen from the second and third floor balconies of the museum. This floratic (don't use this for Scrabble) garden contains several indigenous trees, vines, etc. that are no longer seen in Mexico.

... them in his cloak to show the Bishop. When he arrived and told the Bishop he opened his cloak to show him the beautiful flowers and they have left an image on his cloak - the image of the Virgin Mary. This cloak still hangs in the church for all to see and millions of people go there every year to see it. Pope John Paul II went to Mexico 5 times and visited this holy place. It is quite amazing. We also learnt more about piņatas on the way to the pyramids. They were in ...

... and a talk from the prime minister which is shown on a big screen. The speech is broad casted at midnight and unfortunately we missed it as there was so many people. The celebrations carried on the next day. There was a march through the city of all the people who work for the civil service and at the end there were majorettes and cowboys doing tricks with ropes. It was great to see the traditions and the next big day the Mexicans ...

... me really sad but also somewhat of a relief that I never had the issue that Edgar is going through.Although the kid looks like an overall happy loving kid. Day 3Tues We spoke, my mother and I, to the therapist /doctor that day. I spoke about alot of my problems or issues but I was somewhat surprised when tears came to my eyes. I think therapists have this type of affect on me which I normally wouldn't shed a tear cause its been years since the incident. Anyway ...