Vista Real Hotel Oaxaca

... police boarding the bus ever couple of hours to shine a torch in our faces but after 8 hours of over night joy and a shocking Austrian film dubbed in Spanish about two guys held in a torture camp we had finally arrive at our destination of Oaxaca. So after flagging down a cab to take us to one of the hostels pinned on the notice board of Rodolfo, which happened to have possible the lumpiest mattress ever, coupled with a dogs blanket for a pillow, we dumped our by now very heavy ...

... if you didn´t see, she would move closer to you, point again, and ask again if we saw... eventually, we always did). Upon our return to the hotel, we expected a shamefaced (but satisfied) Simon to be hanging around... but no. No Simon. Milton and Daryl (Simon´s Netherlands buddy with an awesome name) started hunting... calling cops and whatnot. We went out and ate pasta al fresco on a second floor balcony. The beer was cool, the breeze ...

... ran out and into the other one, cleverly labelled Monguys... hahaha... funny one Mongo.   I then checked out a series of super sweet churches that have been around forever. Combine that with a lot of walking around, and some resting in the shade of the parks, and you pretty much have my day. This morning, I went to the school I'll be spending a lot ...

... local churches with the obligatory brass band, fireworks, candlelit procession, but this time following a float with everyone dressed up to represent some religious theme or other associated with the festive season. Also, the number of vendors increased to accommodate day specific items - eggshells filled with confetti (these guys will be eating scrambled eggs every day for the next month!) and/or flour for smashing over peoples heads, giant sparklers and cans of foam/silly ...

... icomexico.com/ where we will take classes! Since we will be getting only two meals daily at our new home, we stopped for coffee and cake at a local café and then on to a shop to buy something to drink at home tonight. Instead, the owner of the shop invited us to sit down in the back of his shop and we talked together for about 30 minutes. We had a lovely time and are looking forward to exploring further tomorrow.

... tourists! One of them had robbed a Porno DVD and took great pleasure in showing it to us. There was rumours that Eoin tried to do some bargaining with him, but I cannot confirm or deny those stories!! We sat in the main plaza and watched the locals sitting there, watching the world go by. Soon it was time to head back from the mini-road trip. We left with some very good & drunken memories and got back in the cramped jeep for the ...

... for just the smallest bit of news. Any-Hoo....I have decided to create a small summary of the basics from Puebla, and promises to do better on the Bolivian blog..... Well, I will try to do better. Puebla: My family was amazing and just a little shady, so I fell at home immediately. The food was great, and the four year old nephew was the best ...

... played the steady beat and the the student with the drum played "ta ti-ti". Anyone who didn't have an instrument sang. --------------------------------------- Teaching Reflection The first group: While the walking into the beat didn't seem to work very well (they were falling over and pushing each other) the warm-up did go well. The controlled "shake" helped them concentrate and they seemed to have fun with ...

... Que pase, What happened, what happened, Que pase la rosa? What happened to the rose? I wanted to do something simple with the kids because I wasn't sure what level of music and they had previously, or how well behaved they were. Since the song was about passing a flower around I made up a game that was sort of a combination of Indian Chief and Hot Potato. Everyone sat in a circle and a "rose" was passed around the circle to the beat of the song. There was ...

... is where the war of Cinco de Mayo was held, when 2000 Mexican defeated 6000 French as they tried to take over the City. The French would later concurred it a few years later. Anyway, Craig and I went through the Museum at the Fuerte de Loreto (the Mexicans fort) that had a lot of artifacts from the war, but wasn't really worth the $3 we spent to get in. We walked around a bit ...