nosotros corazones son en oaxaca!

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November 18th 2009

Published: February 26th 2010

We spent one and half glorious months in oaxaca. it was everything and so much more than we had even hoped or expected it to be. both of us agreed whole heartedly that it was one of our favorite destinations on the entire trip. not only did we fall in love with the city but we loved our spanish language school, the friends we made and our teachers, the food we ate, the house and neighborhood we l... Read Full Entry

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san luis beltran

the urbanos in oaxaca drive very fast and many people have died getting hit

playing cards in the kitchen

graham would often wear his lucha libre mask around the house

protest outside of our school

i loved watching all of the protests that would happen on the street outside our school, there were lots of different reasons for the protests- change in oaxaca, change in mexico 2010, indigenous rights, student rights, disability rights, etc.

Soriana

our favorite grocery store

Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca

Santo Domingo at night

Cinepolis

we decided to see a movie on the cheap day. worst movie ever! case 39 with renee zellweger, she plays a terrible social worker named emily. i was ticked.

graham mailing post cards at the post office

el BAResito

one of our favorite parts of el BAResito was their juke box. eventually they started telling us that if they turned it on for us we had to stop playing metal every time we came in.

recounting our many faux pas

when in a new country and you are trying to understand the language and culture, you make many mistakes and then try to act cool. for example, this represents how graham thought his hard plastic drink stirrer was actually a straw and he tried sipping through it while the waitress was watching.

recounting our many faux pas

this represents me when i tried to act really cool and tell the waiter en español that i loved the cold french fries (papas) when in fact they were jicamas.

recounting our many faux pas

this represents the time we entered el baresito and tages assumed the napkin holders were table reservation holders so we crammed ourselves way in the back.

neighborhood posada for Dia de la Virgin de Guadalupe

Teotitlán

One of the most meaningful things I did in Oaxaca was participate in Fundacion En Via (formerly called Investours). We visited 6 women in Teotitlán to check out their small business venture needs and the money we paid for the tour went directly to an interest free loan to help them out.

Preciosa Sangre de Cristo Church in Teotitlán

Teotitlán was one of the first villages founded by the Zapotecs in this area in 1465 and it still retains its Zapotec culture and language.

Preciosa Sangre de Cristo Church

Teotitlán mercado

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