Mexico D.F., why, that's Mexico City!

Enjoy! ¡Disfrútense!

Well, as you can see, I did a lot in Mexico City! The first photo is of the absolutely huge cathedral in the Centro Historico of Mexico City. The second photo shows a Diego Rivera (Frida Cahlo´s husband) mural in the palace where Benito Juarez once lived. The others showing the carriages and beautiful building, is the palace built for the viceroys Maximiliano and Porfirio Diaz. There is also a pic of Shauna and I with gardens in the background... this is actually outside of the house of Frida Cahlo. That was actually the best thing in Mexico City, it was so interesting but we couldn´t take pictures inside the house :( Oh! And the huge head picture is of an Olmec head, there were a bunch of them in the Anthropological National Museum. The museum was cool but I can only really take museums in small doses so I only saw a few exhibits.

The next photos are of "La Villa" which is the cathedral and grounds where the Virgin of Guadalupe is displayed. Apparently, next to the Vatican, this church and area is the most visited place of worship in the world.

Finally the pyramids of Teotihuacán! This was my second favourite thing about my Mexico City trip! There are two huge pyramids here, one called the moon pyramid and the other (the largest) called the sun pyramid. I actually still don't know which indigenous group built these but apparently the Aztecs came upon them already abandoned. I do know however that the pyramids were mainly used for a ton of sacrifices :() !!

The last picture is of me on my way down the biggest pyamid. We climbed all the way to the top. It was quite the workout that´s for sure!

On to Nueva Vallarta !!

Okay, well you know I'm skipping a few events... BUT I am trying to include the most important ones. So, the weekend before last I went to Nueva Vallarta (just before Puerto Vallarta) with Jen, Shauna, Laura, Christa, and Russell. We had an awesome time. It was all-inclusive, two nights, so I drank and ate for free and there was a really nice pool and the ocean just steps away. Well... here are some photos!

Well there you have it! Did you like the arm wrestling photos? We found it very amusing at the time. Just so you know... Shauna did not win against Russell as strong as she is. I did, however, beat Jen, but she's a very tiny person so thank God.

Top photo, ze hotel!

Middle left photo, the pool at our hotel

Bottom right photo, Christa and I admiring our wristbands entitling us to the all-inclusiveness!

Terrific Travels to Tonalà

What is this Tonalà I speak of? Well it's a pueblito (little town) just outside of Gdl., and it specializes in artesanía which I don't know how to say in English exactly, but it's like craftmanship I think. This was the first school field trip I took and we got to visit a doll making factory, a paper maché factory, and a glass making factory and then we got to peruse through a bunch of different little shops as well. The cat I am posing with in the photo above is actually unpainted paper maché!

Let´s start at the very beginning...a very good place to start!

People you should know
1st pic Russell and Christa. Christa is the roomate that I hang out with most here. We do pretty much everything together. Russell is her boyfriend. He just recently left, I think he stayed for about two weeks.

2nd pic Shauna (far left), Jen, and Laura. Shauna and Jen go to school with me and Christa. We see eachother pretty much everyday and tend to do a lot of things with them. They are my best classmates :) Laura (yes...another one!) is visiting Jen from California for a whole month! They are all from California.

3rd pic Me and Hilda. Hilda is my host mom. Don´t be frightened! She just looks a little scary in photos but in reality is one of the nicest ladies ever, she refuses to smile in photos though for some reason.

Here are Emilio and Solovino (right). These are the big dogs that I live with. They bark A LOT. And they smell bad. Cute in photos, not in reality.

Here I am !

Hello Everyone! Wow! I am finally taking the time again to update my blog! Are you impressed?? I´m going to put tons of photos up so be prepared!! As you can see in my photo here, I am pointing on a map to where Guadalajara is, in case anyone was wondering... So now I am going to try my best to update everyone on what have been the goings on here in Gdl. over the past few weeks!