Safe in Gudalajara at last, I was collected from the bus stop on Saturday evening by staff from the teaching project organisation who could not believe the weight of my bag and taken to my host family's house in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara. The family: Señora Rebeca, Señor Carlos, Ernesto, Oscar, Carlos, Carolina and Paulina and Gina the famiy's cousin are all lovely and I will be loving in their house for the next 3 months with all of them and Ann, a volunteer from Germany who I am also working with at the school and with whom I share a bedroom. After the somewhat false starts of being taken to a school who didn't actually need any volunteers and the laundrey dying all my white clothes with blue spots (now thankfully expunged using gallons
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