Marps in Mexico: January 2009

Soooooooooo... where to begin? I suppose I`ll have to give you the run down later because I actually need to go to a party!!!! There`s a fiesta in Yautepec tonight and I`m going with Gabby, La Doña (cook, maid, awesome woman). Tomorrow I`m off to go back to San Cristòbal to take more classes and maybe to learn how to fix bikes. We`ll see. I`ll lable the photos later, but they are of the abandoned mansion here at La Quinta Piedra, where I am right now in Morelos. Also they are of Oaxaca, the ones at the bottom. More to come later. Well, not that much later. Turns out I can`t go to the party tonight after all. I have some packing to do and I need to talk to Jack, the guy that runs the project here. So... I`ll just update some stuff instead. I have been working on a project here in Tepoztlàn, Morelos for the last month if you were wondering. There is this really amazing piece of property that belonged to a former president in the 90`s and has since been abandoned and torn apart. The project that`s going on is to restore the buildings to make a school for anyone that wants to learn about permaculture and agriculture. It`s a pretty neat project, and the people that are working on it are amazing, inspiring, and down right quirky. I think I`ll come back here some day to see how things have progressed. My time in Oaxaca was really really good and found me living with a really nice woman and having a friend named Lalo who taught me all sorts of slang and expressions in spanish that I wasn`t learning in my classes. It`s like almost half way through january now so that means I have been in Mexico for 3 months just about. Time just keeps on going at it`s own pace whether you notice or not. I feel like I have been here forever and like I just got here simultaneously. Well, tomorrow is a new adventure, and right now is pretty awesome.