Second Week Completed

After 2 weeks of Spanish classes, starting to be able to pick up a lot more in conversations than when I started. It was actually cloudy yesterday and is today. I'm not complaining though, it beats the cold :)

This is just a picture of my classroom...quite basic. My roommate and I are the only two in the class. Probably only about 8 students in total at the school right now. This is the slower season for them, plus with the travel warnings to Mexico, not as many people are coming. The University of Wisconsin system actually cancelled its study abroad program to Mexico.

This is the view from my classroom.

This is the view from my balcony. There is a trampoline on one level and a pool on the level below. Logistically we've determined that the pool would not be deep enough after bouncing off the trampoline from the balcony...tests are in progress.

This is also from my balcony. Barbed wire is a very popular defense measure and look.

This is the view from down by the pool.

My host sister took me on a tour through the black market and the market market...it was either taking a picture with this or intestines.

Other students at the school; Kevin, Nate (roommate), Jenny, and Sara

This is a Michelada. It is a popular chili like beer they have in Mexico...it was...interesting.

A very authentic Mariachi Band.

These little critters were a the top of a mountain in Tepoztlan. They were friendly (if you had something to give them). Can't remember the name for them though...

This is at the same place as above, overlooking the city of Tepoztlan.

This is the pyramid at the top of the mountain. It is a "small temple to the Aztec god Tepoztecatl, a god of the alcoholic pulque beverage"(wikipedia of course).

This was the treck all the way up the mountain...just rocks...many many rocks.

We were at a mall and I got a kick out of it. Pun intended.

Going out with some locals tonight, should be a fun time (especially since the speak about as much English as I do Spanish). Tomorrow we go to Teotihuacan. "At its zenith in the first half of the 1st millennium AD, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas." & "is an enormousarchaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-ColumbianAmericas." (thanks again wiki)


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