I was a bit nervous arriving in Mexico City. I was couchsurfing, with a girl named Julia, but I didn’t have a phone that worked in Mexico so our meeting up was pretty hard to do. Luckily she arrived at the bus terminal where we’d agreed to meet and she took me back to her apartment- 16th storey with great views of Mexico City and I got my own room! Thank you couchsurfing.org! The apartment was in a great little compound that Julia says was from the 1970s (apparently they don’t build them like that any more)- so within the walls were 20-30 apartment blocks, but there was also a skating park, oval, a few playgrounds, corner stores, street food vendors, a dentist etc. It was so interesting, and such a nice little community with so
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