Hotel Villa Margaritas Caxa Jalapa

... gorge. So buggy that I didn't hang around & luckily got a ride back up the hill first try. Had intended to get up for the 5.20am session today, but as I had slept badly the previous 3 nights, turned over & went back to sleep - will try again manaña! Got in my exercise with a walk to the viewpoint on the top of Cerro de los Serpientes - had some company in the form of a big black hairy dog from the Ashram called Aries - he pretty ...

I heard about couch surfing dot com so I decided to try it out. It's a bunch of people that are willing to let random people sleep on their couches. It's a pretty cool idea but it's a little sketchy at times and you never really know what you are going to get. Fortunately I ended up with some really cool people the first time so ...

... leise gedreht wird (v**steht ja eh kein**...) kommen wir auch so wied** zu uns**** Spanischuebung, auch wenn wir oft nur Teile v**stehen. Die Golfkueste ist voll** schoen** Strandhotels, ab** wir sehen keine Touristen. Soll nicht die Zeit dafu** sein, wird uns spaet** **kla**t. Papantla bietet viele Attraktionen, scheint ab** trotzdem weit abseits d** ueblichen Touristenwege zu liegen. Wir brauchen eine Weile, bis wir noch ein paar and**e Bleichgesicht** sehen. An d** kleinen ...

Written from Jalcomulco, Mexico: A phone call was just received directly from Jordan at 19:35 our time. Joel is awake and recognizes his brother as well as other friends and family. He has little memory of the incident but is making jokes and talking about kayaking. One lung continues to labour but the doctors plan to take him out of the ICU tomorrow. The family will be sending us further updates as they come along.

... Air Ambulance. He was then transferred into the care of the Foxflight Air Ambulance attendants and is currently enroute to the ICU at the London Health Science Centre. The Scott family were met by the entire WILD staff and students at the hospital and each of the family was able to visit with Joel before his early morning transfer. The entire family are currently enroute from Mexico City to Toronto and will meet with Jordan and Joel around 2300h EST. With ...

... students immediately began CPR, an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), which was on hand and was used within minutes to successfully gain cardiac function and rhythm. A rapid evacuation followed and within two hours of the incident he was admitted to the hospital in Xalapa, Veracruz - Mexico, where further testing and diagnosis are being performed. He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at the CEMS ...

... the top we had a beautiful view above the whole canyon and could see the hills for miles around - each having a distinctive flat top. We continued on down and through the forest before arriving tired and hot into Chopilapa where we met the lovely families who live there. After some introductions we went down to the river to bathe before heading off to another house to say hello and have a beer. All 18 of there family members were in the house - luckily Jim speaks ...

... views. Here is a great shot of Xico from a little resteraunt across the gorge thingy area. And here is a picture for my mom, just so that she knows I am beeing safe . Anyway Pablo and I are heading to Oaxaca and surrounding areas tomorrow for a couple days and i will update some time next week. Oh and i saw this pic on my camera, its from a couple of days before i left boulder, and i just had to put it up here.

Hey gang, Well its been a while since Ive last updated. Im still in Jalapa and I have just finished my teachers course. I shall be graduating on May 19th. Whippe! I will be also in July finishing off my teachers position in the Colegio las Hayas and Istituto Bristol. These past 6 months have been fun although sometimes exhausting. In Colegio las Hayas, I was first teaching teens which wernt too bad but ...

... It was all very tropical and the boat ride was littered with tons of wild birds of all shapes and sizes... Grandma would have been impressed! Finally Saturday morning after a short 20 minute boat ride we made it to our final destination, the resort Monte Cristo. This place was perfect for us because we were the only ones there so we could get rowdy and not worry about annoying other guests. It's right on the water so you can water ski for a small fee, but everything else is ...