Blogs from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, North America - page 18

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 went to Guadalajara. Went out with some friends that weekend, did a little christmas shopping (Which I ADORE!), hung out. Then my friend, another X-student from Canada, came over on Sunday and stayed at my house, until we went back to Puerto Vallarta on Tuesday. So unfourtunatly Rosemary(my friend) comes the only week we've had with clouds in the last two months, so we didn't get a chance to ... read more

Christmas day was one for laying low. we didn´t do much, made some eggs for breakfast, cleaned up from the party, looked aroudn for our stuff. etc. I went to the internet cafe to upload pictures and spent about an hour at rockyou.com making a slideshow. then the internet went down and i lost it all. boo. i left without paying. i don´t feel bad about it. i´ll probably go back there later and give it another shot, but it´s so frustrating to have something like that happen. wendy, paulina, and i went to el parque de los morelos just to sit out in the sun and it was really nice. we sat and talked about relationships, pregnancies, kids, travels. later we went to get chinese food and it wasn´t very good. by this time i ... read more

the christmas spirit here is much less IN YOUR FACE than in america. if you go to major plazas, there will be a couple scattered stands where you can take a picture with santa. some stores have handwritten signs that mention navidad (christmas) but in the US it´s all out christmas since thanksgiving and sometimes before. it has been nice to not have to think about christmas a whole lot. this is also odd as its´a very catholic country. you´d think christmas would be more important. but it´s not thought of as so much of a shopping holiday as a reunite with family, reaffirm belief systems, and just take a day off to celebrate kind of thing. this pleases me. christmas in the states is a little intense. ´con permiso, quisiera ver a facebook y myspace ... read more

When I got to Guadalajara, I was greeted at the arrival gate by a horde of people, many of them young women, who screamed and whistled at me. I smiled and winked and received still more screams. (I could get used to this). Then the guy behind me showed me up because he was dressed like a Medieval English King. Damn... I asked a couple people about buses and was told they all went where I wanted to go. Then I bought postcards I could´ve easily stolen, and went outside to look for a bus. All the taxis here are mid'90´s Nissan Sentras. The bus cost 5 pesos (50 cents) and was reasonably comfortable for the price. Eventually (after like 45 minutes of driving through shatntytowns and the like it looked like we were getting close ... read more

Day 7 Villa Corona, trailer park Chimulco and the hotsprings Highlights: hotsprings; Lake Chapala; molcajetes We woke up to a cool but beautiful morning and the tradition is, before breakfast you head to the hotsprings, so we went, no need to convince us. I was a little worried about the temperature as l like my waters to be bathtub temperature especially when the outdoor temp is still very chilly but after I poked my toes into the water to let Carlo know it was actually really really warm, we were in the pool within a sec. The hotsprings are part of a big water park but instead of just tab water in all the pools, waterslides, tube rivers, etc the park uses the underground hotsprings for the water, how fantastic is that. Plus the hotsprings are ... read more