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North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca February 22nd 2011

I only passed through Mexico City for one night and didn’t really do anything. The next morning I headed to the taxquena and caught a bus to Cuernavaca for something I had been looking forward to for quite some time: my Thinking Day event at Our Cabana (a Girl Guide thing). I arrived mid-afternoon when everyone else were out on a day trip (I started the event a few days late), which gave me an opportunity to sort out my life (e.g. laundry) and check out the facilities (e.g. craft house open 18 hours a day- definitely utilised by me to its full extent). The first night was an introduction to what guides in Mexico is like followed by margarita night. Definitely a good way to start things off! The next morning was Saturday and thus ... read more

Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Oaxaca

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca August 18th 2010

Old Pyramid, New Cathedral

ktfox

July brought the perfect opportunity to head to Mexico for a five-week adventure!! My mom and I started our time together in Mexico City with a visit to the Templo Mayor to see the ruins of Tenochtitlan, which are kept in fantastic repair and rather well explained. The accompanying museum was also helpful and filled with impressive artifacts that we were all too happy to explore. We also took in the Museum of Anthropology, which is massive and awesome! The museum is divided into various regions of Mexico and has two floors within each section. The lower floor has ancient artifacts- including the Aztec Sun Stone- while the upstairs floor explored more recent history and cultures of the regions- we gravitated to the upper floor. To change our pace we moved from our hotel in the ... read more

Brady Museum

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca August 3rd 2010

guest bath

esolpkh

Friday, July 30, 2001 We went to the Brady Museum way back on the 14th, but I forgot my camera. So when a friend, Diana Siemer, from Baltimore came to Cuernavaca on a scholarship for 2 weeks, I decided it was a perfect opportunity to show her this unique museum and get my pictures. The low down on this guy is that he inherited loads of money. His parents owned the Mayflower moving company. So what better thing could you do with your life than to travel to distant parts of the world, collect outrageous art, decorate a beautiful mansion with it, and then invite lots of famous and outrageous people to your house in sunny, cool, quaint Cuernavaca, Mexico for cocktails and parties. ... read more

VAMOS- Our Community Service Learning Day

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca August 3rd 2010

Dadre and Beth

esolpkh

Monday, August 2, 2001 Yesterday we volunteered at VAMOS, an organization that helps the poor, to help paint their building and prepare the food for their "la comida" (big meal of the day). It was a warm and sunny day, and the place was high up in the mountains outside of Cuernavaca. Once we left the outskirts of town and headed up, most of the roads were dirt with plenty of potholes. The people that run the meal do have a routine. The children sit down and eat, brush their teeth (which I videoed), take a vitamin, then play or work on crafts. Of course, the kids don't always do it in that order. ... read more

Local Women Artists

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 23rd 2010

The three local women artists

esolpkh

Thursday, July 22, 2010 The Arts in the Schools: Arts for the most part are absent in public schools. And private schools are much better. They are not part of the regular school program, unless it’s a “special” school. Otherwise, it’s usually an extracurricular activity that costs a lot of money. ***** Tonight's presentation was on women in the arts. The first one wove cloth, the second painted, and the third played a small guitar and acts in local theater. They came to talk about their art. Mostly they said how much artists struggle to survive. The situation sounds similar to the one in the U.S., but, of course, things are always much more difficult here. The economy, like elsewhere, is suffering, too. One came to Mexico from Guatemala. She and her husband weave to make ... read more

Doctor's Visit

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 21st 2010

esolpkh

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 The Doctor's Visit: On Monday I started to develop a problem in my right ear. It felt like it had water in it, but it didn't. It was the kind of thing that I hoped was minor and would go away on its own. Tuesday I felt very dizzy (dizzier than normal that is) when I got out of bed or stood up from sitting. I also felt slightly nauseated. By the time Wednesday came I realized I had to see a doctor. The nice thing here is, and maybe it just applies to our school, is the doctor actually made a visit to the school. I can't think of the last time I heard of a "house call" happening in the U.S. And the real surprise is that it only cost ... read more

Lecture on Dying Languages Heard by Andrea

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 21st 2010

esolpkh

I copied and pasted the following. They are notes from one person in our group who attended a lecture about the dying languages in the world. *** Yesterday when I was working at the school in the afternoon, I was invited to see a film that Dr. Elliot from Texas was showing about two linguists' searches and efforts to document dying languages. One was from Bolivia. If you are interested, below are some notes I put together. There is also a website where you can read about Dr. Elliot's continuing research with the Indians of Oaxaca that speak Triqui. July 19th, 2010 An accidental class on linguists and dying languages When I was studying alone at the school yesterday afternoon, some people came in to see a movie with Dr. Raymond Elliot called The Linguists. I ... read more

NPR Radio Interview about Our Fulbright Program

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 19th 2010

esolpkh

Monday, July 19, 2010 This is the link to the interview that our director and one of the Fulbright teachers gave that was played on NPR (National Public Radio) on Monday. They explain the program and its goals. http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/719102/... read more

Cuernavaca

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 17th 2010

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Old Pip

Here’s the latest update from Cuernavaca. Nice picts of the Saltas de San Anton and the incredible Brady Museum.... read more

I´ll be a UNINTER grad tomorrow :)

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca July 15th 2010

BLUESTAR

This will probably be my last entry in Mexico :( i´m sad. I went on a double decker bus tour of Cuernavaca yesterday with some friends from my group, just in case there was anything about the city we missed lol, and i made such a fool of myself HAHA! but i´m the same when i do something touresty in the US... even DC for that matter haha! I was on the top of the bus, so of course I was waving at anyone looking at us, i took pictures of random people making out in parks or gardens that we passed by and I always yelled gracias when we started moving again LOL. we went to the garden of Porfirio Diaz, and i made a video of me crossing this suspect looking bridge, so sunday ... read more

Brief history of Mexico

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst...more history

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