http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Jahooly/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Jahooly en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:04:42 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:04:42 +0000 my last few days spent in san ignacio were with a guy i knew and his family. they lived on a jungle farm and i satyed in my tent. they had a beautiful little creek that ran through their property that i bathed in and washed my clothes in. they had 2 horses lime mango avocado chaya basil chickens and goats. my friends brother was practically a bush doctor so i learned tons about all th http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/blog-428125.html Ive been in San Ignacio for one week now. Ive had a great time. the last time i was here was 10years ago and from what ive heard it has changed dramatically since then....more gangs less live music more fake rastas still good travelers come through though. ive been learning tons since ive been herecooking over a fire is normal now and i like it more i learned how to make pizza in a dutch http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-423099.html I went to Cacao a small Mexican village on the border of Belize this past weekend. I stayed with some friends i had met at Xamach Dos Resort. I got to meet their whole family. Mom brothers nephews cousins aunts everyone but really only like a third of the family probably since the family is huge everyone seems to have about 10 kids and if not thats how many kids they want. they lived i http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/blog-421455.html Xamach Dos. my peaceful beach resort. ive learned a bunch since ive been here. I learned how to make totopes which are fried tortilla chips ive finally master whacking open a coconut with a machete and ive figured out how to funnel gas into a truck. Ahhh yes ive also learned that an exhaust is a silly part of your car and that its perfectly fine to drive without one. the exhaust on my tru http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/blog-416620.html I made it back home in the truck safe and sound. Managing to only stall it and get stuck or paused on top of a massive speed bump.I live with Francisca and Vinancio. They are about 40s years old. Francisca is an amazing cook who loves chiles. Shes hard headed and argues with me about recycling and veggie prices. I learned last night that she was married at the age of 13 to a guy who was 38. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/blog-414792.html ahhhh hello friends so last time i wrote i think i was staying at myfriends resortjustforaweek and then wasplanning on going to belizeto travel more....i guess i have to hit the space bar harder sorry. bbbuuuuuuttttt now i am still staying at the resort managing it josh has left today for 1 month to go home to washington. so i am staying to help francisca and vinancio run the resport and tal http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/blog-414140.html The last few weeks at Pez Maya were full of divemaster exams lots more cool sightnigs lots more divemaster practice and a little bit more monitoring. we still did 2 dives a day the first usually going out monitoring counting more fish and the second dive was usually practice and learning skills for divemaster. which i proudly have now completed i just need to send PADI some more money and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-409176.html hey everyone its been sooooooo long. ive been so busy i dont even know wher to startthe swine flu which was treated as a zombie epidemic has now passed but has completly pained mexicos toursist industry to almost null everyone is down about it. the media totally overdid it. we were all fine and stayed healthy. sand flies however are demons and will eat up your body and leave horrible blis http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/blog-403406.html hitched a ride witha nice couple from denver to get into town. an hour bumpy dirt ride away to reach civilization and internet. and cold drinks too the flu is not here so no worries but ppl are wearing face masks because they are crazy paranoid. i am a certified open water diver now yaya and a deep water and navigation dive away from being an advanced diver i am going to be adding on resc http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/blog-394747.html mexico is wonderful the research base is great location staff other volunteers beach coconuts magrove lagoonhave been seasrching but havent found the crocs yet the reef the fishes. verythingim living in the sian kan reserve 1 hour south of the town tulum. ill give you a quick briefing of what ive done so far.the first night i stayed in the town met a german follwed him to a res http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Tulum/blog-390052.html A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. Carlos Salinas de Gortari Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico the astonishing thing is nobody wears these hats at all. Bruce Beresford ldquoIn Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of no http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Maryland/blog-386432.html Oh my trip to uruguay was amzing i dont even know where to start. we left on thursday from buenos aires took a 1hour ferrry to colonia i very old colonial town super cute. we stayed here for only a couple hours we wanted to get to our final destiniation of small beach town Cabo Polonio Cabo Loconio by the time we left by nightfall. We hopped on a bus to montevideothe biggest city in urug http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/East/blog-383073.html my time with mom was good we went to santelmo market on sunday wandered by souveniers for family. she left last night after some wine and cheese. she was able to meet sebi my roomate see the apartment meet some friends in san telmo we had a great time. we bought 2 new chairs for the hostel greatly appreciated by paul. the owner a good friend now.swimming in pureness and locaness para http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-380537.html so check out some pictures at dancingwiththetreesandthebees.blogspot.commy mom is coming into buenos aires today and we will be staying at el sol hostel best hostel in buenos aires i lost my phone last night so dont have a phone number. if your an friend in buenos aires you can call me at 5411 4811 6802 its the hostel number but i should be getting a new phone today and maybe checking the bar http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-379624.html my next and last lesson plan is going to be teaching students about how to compare customs. sooooo me and another girl will be teaching them about samba from brazil and carnaval tango from argentina and rock music mosh pitts from the usa. it should be fun we will have them listen to songs and then teach them some dance moves with the correct grammar it should be fun. what is this symbol http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-378535.html I had the best weekend ever I love this city and the people i meet here more than everOn friday night we had a party at the hostel i stayed at for 3 nights. I am still close friends with everyone that works there so i hang out there often. We had a bbq listened to motown and classic rock. Then around 1am we started jammin Noah was on guitar paul on another guitar anders on bassall http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-378177.html Everything is going swell and dandy doo classes are going good ive already taught 3 1 hour classes in english to nonnative enghlish speakers at all different levels beginer to intermediate. all the studentsall adults 20 seem to love me and my enthusiasm and teeaching style. they alwasy ask if i will teach them again but usually we just do each level class once. we still get to talk in http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-376782.html I just added tons of photos to dancingwiththetreesandthebees.blogspot.com so check them out when you get a chance.since i last talked to you lets see whats happened...ill try to be quick.went to a bs as houseparty went to a brazilian dance club and danced til 6am painted 2 water color small paintings found an organic garden near our apt that i will go back to help on the garden someday went to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-376094.html so im sittin in a internet cafe watchin the cars pass my way. sitting in a internet cafe wastin tiiiiiiiiime i left my home in dc headed for buenos aires. i have tons to live for and looks like tons is still on its way. today me and my partner heather are going to be teaching our first english lesson. we are teeaching about a historical event using words ago during from to and for th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-374540.html thanks everybody for my birthday wishes i ended up walking 25 blocks to rio de plata with matias and then all the way back to find tirzah finally awake it was a nice chill night. i love florida the town we were staying in outside of bs as. there are no toursists there kind of like suburbs. so much has hapened i think since i have last wirtten so i dont really know where to start...me and http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-372813.html