Blogs from Puebla, Mexico, North America - page 5

As soon as we were done eating breakfast we headed over to view one of the best murals I have ever seen -not that I have seen a lot in my day -there was 500m2 of painted murals that filled up the entire room, including the walls that surrounded the stairs to the second floor. It was truly incredible. The murals started by depicting the natives and showing a little bit of their culture and how they lived life throughout the years. One of the murals showed 'el arbol de las mil maravillas' which meant 'the tree of a thousand wonders'. This mural was all about how the natives had various uses for the tree, be it for food, medicinal use, clothing, shelter, paper. This 'tree' was actually the maguey (century cactus). Good tips just in ... read more

The morning brought the bad memories of the night before... To save us of the embarrassment, I will just write 'We sluggishly got ready and headed to breakfast'. I swear the city was punishing us because it was ridiculously bright out, and my friend and I were not ready to face the world. We opted to skip the eggs this morning, for obvious reasons, and stuck to the essentials: bread and coffee (tea for me). If it wasn't awkward enough being the last two to crawl into the restaurant area -and have everyone know why -not even halfway through breakfast the professor came over with her usual bubbly self and asked us how we were doing considering what had happened last night. That's right folks, not only did we drink with our professor the night before ... read more

Having 4 girls share 1 bathroom and expect them to be ready and on time in the morning is like expecting to be able to visit the North Pole on Christmas Eve... impossible. This morning after inhaling breakfast from running a little late we met the rest of the group in the lobby and proceeded with our day! We walked over to the house of the anthropologist that the professor is friends with: she gave us a tour of her lovely home and then gave us a mini lecture about the markets in mexico, how they have evolved and how they were/are used. From there we took the bus to the market and began our shopping! The markets in Mexico (or any country in Latin America for that matter) are the highlights of my trips. There ... read more

Getting ready for 8:30 this morning was a teeny bit difficult, especially when we didn't get to bed until 1:30 last night. Walking downstairs we awaited the rest of the group and then all of us climbed onto the bus. Our first stop was to the public university in Puebla; it's a huge campus with gorgeous architecture and amazing pieces of artwork hung around campus. Naturally, everyone in the group was hungry by the time we got to the university so thank goodness our professors had arranged for us to eat first! We ate at this cute little french bistro that is situated right near the front entrance of the university. I will admit, it was extremely odd to be eating at a french restaurant while in Mexico, but no one was complaining because it looked ... read more

Today started off like any other normal day... If you call waking up in a foreign, yet great, city normal ;) After grabbing a quick bite to eat we were given our first assignment! Each student was paired up with another (aka roommate) and were assigned a street to walk up while taking notes on the kinds of stores that you see on that street. At the end of our 'street walk' we were to meet up at this kitchen museum that was also an ex convent. When we got to the museum we were shown into the 'kitchen area', it was seriously so cool!! It was interesting to go 'back in time' and see how some kitchens were. They even had a fridge area; the fridge area was really a separate room that supposedly had ... read more

What a day!! Can I just say that I am so glad to have finally landed in Mexico. it was quite the shit show of a day, shall we start? Me being myself, i knew what I wanted to pack, however, I didn't pack until 2 days before I left. That meant that I was going to spend the night before my flight packing until the wee hours (or until my eyes started closing) and then wake up early the morning of my flight and finish packing all of my 'last minute' items. Lets do some math; my flight was at 8:20, I had to be there 2 hours before that time so that brought us to 6:20; it takes approx. 20 minutes to get to the airport which brings us to 6; then I have ... read more