Hey all! Although this is going to be really out of order, I'm going to give a brief storyline of what I've been up to the past month.
I got into Tuxtla-Guitierrez on Sunday, September 9 without too much to report aside from the fact that I'm in Mexico. The airport there was incredible. Glass walls that made the looming storm seem all that much more amazing. I met three others from the trip- Daniel from DC who goes to Evergreen; Cely whose Mexican-American and has beautiful hair and is from Indiana but goes to school in Chicago; and Grace from California who goes to CaliPoly.
Our teacher/who has now become more like our dad, Tom, met us at the airport and drove us down to San Cristobal de las Casas, where we spent our first night. It was quite a drive- about an hour with cars passing in every direction- I'm glad I wasn't the one driving!
San Cristobal is a little city and is where the EZLN (Ejercitio Zapatista Liberacion Nacional, basically the army of the Zapatistas) took over on January 1, 1994. The city is basically surrounded by mountains which are inhabited by indigenou people. Its a great city but there are a lot of tourists, big churches, bright colors and tons of people selling things everywhere. I've walked around the city a good bit, but its only been on the weekend seeing as how we're all in class and so much more during the week we only have a chance to come here on the weekend. We've had some good food, some okay food, and some not so good food. haha. A bunch of us tend to head out to bars and dancing on the weekend, but we've had our fair share of community dinners at the house and late nights getting to know everyone.
There are twelve of us altogether, one of whom is from MD and went to Springbrook! That's Lauren, she totally rocks! There are two from Philly (the burbs), one from CT, one from Texas-Ameilia! And another from Washington state and two more from Cali. A good group, sometimes its a little hard to be around the same people for class, sleeping, eating, and going out, but its all about learning to work as a group, eh?!
There are twelve of us altogether, one of whom is from MD and went to Springbrook! That's Lauren, she totally rocks! There are two from Philly (the burbs), one from CT, one from Texas-Ameilia! And another from Washington state and two more from Cali. A good group, sometimes its a little hard to be around the same people for class, sleeping, eating, and going out, but its all about learning to work as a group, eh?!
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