Mi casa en Mexico

Of molle and fiestas

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October 4th 2008
It doesn’t feel like only a couple of days since I posted, it feels more like a week or two! So much to see and do and experience and take in. Monday we started our Spanish classes and they are amazingly intensive. No English is spoken and we have gone on trips to markets and a pueblo that we will be working in. I have noticed, in the last few days, that learning a new language requires a certa ... read more

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Oaxaca

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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... ... read more