NH Puebla

... Ronja 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!<br><br>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 :)<br><br>First we walked to a nearby market ...

... outlined by our education coordinators, Hans and Dave, was to teach the children how to become better citizens.<br><br>20 minutes to teach young children that concept? There are some adults that don't even know that concept! :) It would be quite a challenge. We were on the bus for about an hour and had some time to determine what activity we would do. We decided to play a game called "Take a Stand". We ask questions and the children have to choose one side of ...

... Ronja and I have our own room and they even moved a television in our room for us. How nice of them! She has two cats - one is big and black and the other is a golden, playful kitten.<br><br>Tuesday was our first full day in Puebla - Regional Learning Day. It was an awesome day! We were split into 2 groups and my group went a tour of Puebla first. Traveling in a double decker bus, we rode around the beautiful city of Puebla. It is so gorgeous here - the buildings have so much color ...

... palms and water fountains bubbling away. Arched buildings with lots of restaurants and cafes lined the square. We visited the Iglesia de Santa Domingo, which was very beautiful. We spotted some interesting stores - there were an astounding number of shoe stores (zapaterias), sadly all in mayan sizes rather than our respective sasquatch and hobbit requirements. And eyeglass stores - why so many? There were quite a few costume ...

... Lonely Planet describes, but it's a shame there prices are 100 peso out. The current rates are 350 + 450 peso for 1 or 2 persons and not the 260 + 350 that Lonely Planet states. A room with 2 beds you're looking at 570 peso for 2 persons. At the end of the day, the rooms are simple and well overpriced especially when you see what else is around. <br><br>At the top end Puebla offers some fine boutique accommodation. <br><br>My ...

... br><br>Le centre de la ville est inscrit au patrimoine de l'UNESCO pour sa très belle architecture coloniale, dont la magnifique cathédrale.<br><br>Gastronomiquement, Puebla est réputée pour être la ville d'origine du mole y les chiles en nogada.

... industrial with the familiar names such as Volkswagen, many auto accessory outlets and shops of independent tradesmen. As we found streets that corresponded with our city map we looked for the "yellow church". This was where we were told to get off. Local passengers, on the bus were so helpful and made sure we got off at the right place. We have found throughout Mexico people will go out of ...

For most of the rest of my time here we will be traveling...so i am unsure about how the updates may or may not happen...i don't know what the internet situation will be but i will try my best. Schedule for remaining days: 11/21- Puebla 11/22- Puebla &amp ...

... walking in the park i noticed some flowers that were very familiure to me, they were the flowers we always get for grandma & grandpa shelton in a hanging basket.  The ones with the pink outside and purple hanging inside, it made me smile and i took pictures because i have never seen them in the "wild" We also walked through the ruins of the ex-convent of the church of San Fransico.  It was funny because at one point Lili pointed out a large that used to be used ...

... without a flash both evenings we were there,(it was prohibited to take a pic with a flash and this is one rule I feel is worth following) Over the two days, a load of Mexicanos approached us to fill out surveys on tourism in Puebla for their course at College. The highlight of our time in Puebla was definitely when Collins was doing an English radio interview...He was there cracking jokes like there was ...