Blogs from Puebla, Mexico, North America - page 16

Hello everyone! Sorry that I haven´t been updating, but my life has been a whirlwind of activities lately. I will try and tell you about everything, but it might get a little long. First of all, as you all know, I´m staying with a family. There´s a mama and papa, jaque and enrique (but they call him camilo sometimes) and there are two sons, enrique (quique) and alan. Our brothers don´t actually live in the house with us, they live in an apartment next door. The elder is either an architect or is planning on being one, but he has designed a house that his uncle is building in cholula, and after the house is built, they will rent it out to students at the univeristy. The other is studying german, and I´m not quite sure ... read more

The Little things: One of the great interests in travelling is the little things. The frequency of opportunities to part with money is definetly one thing. Whether it is Indigenous Mothers with a small child asleep on their lap or to their side, selling supposebly hand-made goods, Mexican guys selling tack; cheaply made little toys, keyrings, battery powered cars etc. The sort of thing with about a five minute lifespan before disappearing deep into a drawer not to be seen again until you move house. Particularly in Markets and especially in Mexico City the take-away stand seems popular here tacos are often the order of the day, but really anything can be found. No opportunity to sell things seems to be missed. I find the most striking example being the vendors at religous events going around ... read more