Blogs from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, North America - page 11

"The Destination matters less than the Journey!" "C'est pas tant la destination que le parcours qui compte!" This being said, our Ajijic destination makes us revisit that statement for a little while... Very nice break! We enjoyed a little Mexican immersion at the local Chapala market. To prevent any swine contamination, we made sure to absorb the right amount of liquid as prescribed by DrScotch. Il faut dire que le p'tit break qu'on a a Ajijic rend la destination plutot agreable... On s'est paye un bain de foule Mexicain hier, histoire de tester cette affaire de grippe. Pour limiter les risques de contagion, nous avons consomme une quantite suffisante de liquide, tel que prescrit par le DrScotch. J'ai beaucoup apprecie mes degustations , je suis la gouteuse officiel du groupe. No problema... pas encore. Nous avons ... read more

The day begins at 0642 when the alarm first goes off. It's quickly turned back off again and one of us drags ourself out of bed, searches for the keys, goes out, unlocks the gate to the girls' dorm (so that Antonia, the one high school student at the Hogar can leave for school which starts at 7am) knocks on the two dorm doors and shouts 'Buenos Dias' into each one, then blunders back into bed, resetting the alarm for 7 o'clock and goes back to sleep for 15 minutes! At 7 o'clock we both drag ourselves out of bed to go and get the girls up properly and start them doing their chores. If we're really lucky a few girls will already be up and ready when we come out of our room but it ... read more

Dearest Friends and Family, This is just a quick message to let anyone worrying back at home know that I'm fine, safe in Guadalajara (away from mexico city and other infected areas) and am sitting tight. Its been a pretty surreal week to be honest and its kind of left my head spinning at how fast its taken off. On friday I had no idea what was happening and by Monday you could see facemasks and things in Guadalajara. I was planning on traveling this week and next week but have put that off til things calm down. For now I'm just hanging around home, catching up on t.v. and staying away from crowds and pigs. :) From what mum and dad have been telling me, the Aus media is going pretty nuts over there, but ... read more

Hey everyone!! Just thought I'd give you a little update on how this whole swine flu thing is going for the country of origin! I hope no-ones worrying about it too much, the situation isnt quite as bad as the UK news seems to be making out. All of the schools in Jalisco state have been closed which means that the children have nothing to do all afternoon. They are all suspended until May 6th so that might mean that a lot of them go back to their houses...if not we're gonna have a lot of extra work to do over the next week! As it is Jalisco hasnt actually had any confirmed cases of swine flu at all so it's purely precautionary. We've recieved messages from lattitude with advise from the embassy and council advising ... read more

First thing's first, Happy Easter Everyone!!! P.S. you may want to grab a snack, maybe a coffee, orange juice, I know I would. This entry is gonna be long and even split into two entries. Ahh, finally Vacation week, Semana Santa. Well to start of this blog lets go to the planning steps of this trip. So as I had started planning this trip it was originally supposed to be in Chiapas with Steve, Amy, and whoever else wanted to come. But that got changed because Amy couldn't go due to the danger in the area of southeastern Chiapas. So we changed it to a Tabasco journey. In Tabasco we were going to go to some caves, travel a little of the ocean, and visit one of the Guimond family members, a sister in law to ... read more