Monday, May 19, 2008

Bienvenidos a Mêxico


Hola todas,

Im here is wonderful Cuernavaca, Mêxico sitting in the compúter lab typing away. Its really hard for me to type is english because my mind is always working in spanish. I arriaved here safely on Friday night and the adventure started from there. The first night there was two sipders in my room and Courtney and I freaked out! They were huge and it was insane! I know that the spiders are going to be fun in Ecuador!




After killing 3 spiders our group went to Teotihûcan and saw the pyramides of the sun and moon. They were Huge! Imagine that massive amount of effort would have had to go into the building of the pyramides especially 2 thousand years ago. The pyramides were painted red and yellow during their height and the red paint was made from the eggs of an insect and the yellow from a plant that is found at the site. I climbed both of the pryamides and took a lot of photos. It was a really nice day yesterday, it was mostly cloudy and all last night it rained. Even though it was clouding i got the worst farmers tan ever! The pyramde of the moon which is behind me in the picture to the right was the smaller of the two pyramdes and it was only open half was because of excivations going on. At the top of the pryamide of the sun there was a place where it is said that if you touch it the energy from the sun will re-engergize you and you'll feel better. The view from the top was amazing and i was a little afraid of the trip up. They steps were not as big as one would like and they are really tall too. Not to mention that there are maybe 300 people in line climing them all so if one person slips and falls that could be a disaster.


Im really liking Mêxico and the people, its suprising how much i am learning here and how fast i'm picking the language up. Im really excited for the coming weeks and was actually suprised a lot by how the cities are here. They are more dirty than i expected, but not in a bad way, but in a way of their own. I would have to say that the one thing that i can notice the most about other places i travel to is the smell and Mêxico has a definate distinct smell to it! Not bad, just something im really not accustomed too. Anyways i have to start walking to my host familie's house for lunch now, its really close to the university! Ill post again soon! Hasta pronto!

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