Mexico for O!
My view on my walk to school..turn your head, please..

San Martin Iglesia..San Martin Iglesia Circus!

The blessing of the cabaleros......

November 21, 2008

Yesterday and today have been a day of parades in celebration of the Revolution of maybe 1910....lots of celebrations of revolutions here...because there have been many. These parades were mainly of school children and town services: transit police force doing acrobatics sans helmets on their motorcycles, the bomboderos (firemen) setting a fire in the street then putting it out, older school children doing drums and bugles, younger school children today dressed as Poncho Via, and others as various Mexican presidents with fake beards, kids carrying arts/crafts rifles, little girsl with babies on their back, children doing tumbling on mats in the street and running thru hula hoops...quite a scene. One that you can't tear yourself away from even though it gets repetitious....There was even a marathon yesterday with Kenyans running!

Our days are full ...leaving the house at 8:30 in the a.m and returning at 7:00 or so in the p.m. It is amazing that the days can be so full with 2 hrs. in Spanish class each day, often an hour with teaching a student English, a film in the biblioteca (yesterday, the History of Mexico, and day before a docu about Freida Kahlo), a little lunch, a parade, and lots of walking.....

Yesterday we spent a good while figuring out how to load photos in this blog.....now to try some more.

Tomorrow we are going to try out luck on the local bus to go to Quretero...about 45 min journey...

karen