http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/KristinaDee/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from KristinaDee en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:27:39 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:27:39 +0000 So turns out I had that District Conference Blog written all along and just forgot to publish it Oops So after the conference Rosemary and Niki stayed at my house for the week and we went to the beach hung out went dancing were actually fairly lazy but that's fine it was just fun to be together awwww haha That weekend was supposed to be a good bye party in Culiacan a city in northe http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Phoenix/blog-173060.html NOT FOUND http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-164288.html NOT FOUND http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/blog-158936.html Had a funky little adventure day on Sunday Went with some friends hiking to the waterfalls near Mismaloya. We left earlyish on Sunday morning Lorena and I met Olivia at her house where Lalo and Marlon picked us up. Then we stopped at a convinience store to pick up some water and snacks and met two more of Marlon's friends. And off we goIt's an amazing drive towards Mismaloya. It's a drive aw http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-138681.html Q What has Kristina been doingAWhat HASN'T Kristina been doingLast Sunday Feb 25 I met a friend from school at the Rodeo stadium and we went to the National Championship of the Mexican Rodeo We went on the final day so we saw the final 3 teams compete for 1st Prize. Actually first let me explain how this all works The Charreada is the national sport of Mexico. A charro is a Mexican cow http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-132890.html Hi FolkiesSo I just got back from Mazatlan Sinaloa where I was at the annual international world's 4th largest Carnaval I took the 9 hour bus ride on Friday night and got there Saturday morning ridiculously early. I went to Sonia's house one of the exchange students from the States and just passed out for a few more hours. Then after breakfast RosemaryCanada came over with LilianS http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-128854.html Hey everyone I hope the new year is going fabulously. Mine is pretty decent. I'm still not going to school not until February 6th yah I know right haha. I was kind of in a slump of not doing things but I'm out of that now haha I changed houses a little while ago about 2 weeks ago. I like my new family. I have a host sister and 2 brothers only one of which lives at home . Actually http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-121961.html I went back to Vallarta on the 30th with my friend Jozefien from Belgium and we stayed at my friend Olivia's house. We went to the beach on the 31st.. just so we'd be nice and relaxed so we could stay out all night.. hahaWe started off with dinner at Olivia's house... With her dad mom and some of her mom's friends. Her dad is a really good cook he's from Sweden so we had a swedishmexican me http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-117173.html Merry christmas finally I realize this blog comes very late and I apologize. I hope everyone's christmas was SUPER amazing as christmas should be. I had a really rocking christmas and have been througharly have no idea how to spell that. My english spelling is getting worse if possible enjoying my insane amount of vacation time. Vacation started for me about Thursday the 14th when I we http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-114289.html I LOVE TRAVELING. anyone have any questions so far haha From the 19th to the 26th I was traveling with the fabulous exchange students of Rotary District 4150.First took a bus to Tepic from Vallarta joined up with the students there took a bus to Mazatlan where we met up with ALL the exchange students going 53. We hung around until 11 at night and arriving at about noon we had a lot of ti http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-106241.html Hi everyone as either cheers or sighs ring out around the world at the news that Kristina didn't fall off the side of a cliff to be lost foreverI realize that I haven't written a blog in a hundred years that's accurate if you round upbut here we go to make up for it random jotted notesSo a few weeks ago I had a district breakfast where all the exchange students were introduced to all th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-99589.html So I have come out on the other side of my first thanksgiving meal without the family and I managed to survive with only a few minor burns and scratchs So heres the story of my first thanksgivingLupita and I went food shopping after scouting out the stores for where to get everything and that only took us about 4 hours. And I am not even kidding. As it is clearly not thanksgiving here and A http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-94113.html This is just an update to say I have added pictures to two previous blogs so that makes just about ALL the blogs with pictures. If you just scroll down on the original page when you opened THIS blog you can see which blogs have pictures that maybe you didn't see. And by the way got the results of some of my tests back and turns out I'm NOT going to fail at least not this term i have a soli http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-92795.html Where did I leave offThe two school days I spent at Gaby's school went well. It was definatly nice to being something that might even appear to be useful I did hand out dry pasta and glue after all. Friday night was a really fun night I went out with some of the other students from GDL and we all went to this birthday party for a friend of a past exchange student. Yah that was kind of compl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-91953.html So I was in school for one full week almost a record I think after the conference. it was good to be back in PV to see my friends to be in my own room and not live out of a suitcase. School was fine all in all although there are a couple things about school that I can live without namely the crazy boys and the literal mountain of homework I accumulate. The homework really is ridiculous http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-90245.html Just got back from my very first Rotary Youth Exchange Conference Campemento Mazatlan to be exact... I have a tshirt to prove it It was definatly a good time... Ever get to suntan at a conference ... yah.. I don't know what I did to get to live this kind of life ha ha. So I was in GDL the whole week before the conference which means I missed the whole week of school. missing a whole we http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-87996.html Oh man I'm such a little comedian. haha ooo. I apologize for my bad puns. haha. Ok now because of technical difficulties this is the 3rd time I have written this blog .... OIE i love the internet.. but sommmeetimess..... oooooSo we left friday for GDL even though we were supposed to leave Thrusday. Hurricane John cancelled my conference in Mazatlan because it was really dangerous to travel. P http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-87001.html This is basically just so you get updated so that you know I added PICTURES fotos YAY I figured out how to do it There are three previous blogs with pictures now. And I accidently put the Guadalajara pictures with the wrong blog but you get the idea. And I realize I broke my usual rule of almost always taking pictures with people in them but I just wanted to show you wher http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-85514.html They are all things I have jumped off Thats right. I have officially jumped off a cliff. I am SOO happy That is one things that gets crossed right off that Life ToDo List It was so wicked. Thats why it gets first billing in the blog. It was probably a little higher than a the top of a 2 story house. You have to climb up the side which is just rock and its basically straight up so you ha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-84801.html Que pasa kay pawsaw what's going on whats up sup .... So school has started again for the week. Pretty neat already. Yesterday we had to write some answers down then ended up having to read them to the class. And I read 4 whole sentances that I wrote by myself to the whole class in spanish Yay And I asked people later and they actually understood me And they all clapped when I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Puerto-Vallarta/blog-83767.html