Well, it wasn´t a chilled weekend after all. I was sitting in my cabaña on Friday evening minding my own business, when Abraham, one of the consejeros came in and said ´vamanos a acapulco´. I gave him a funny look and told him to get lost, as he has a large tendancy to joke about everything he says. Anyway, after a lot of winding each other up, we actually ended up going to acapulco, arriving there at 2 in the morning, dumping our stuff in a hostel, and hit...

Hola Hola. ¿Qué onda? Well, starting from last Wednesday morning. We went to Amatlán to teach, and, because (sadly) we haven`t missed very many of their classes for fiestas etc. we decided to do something ´fun´with them, and teach them the Hokey Kokey. The quinto grado was fine, most of them managed to copy down the minimal vocab we gave them (although we made some of the lads write number 1-10 because they didn`t finish on time), and we did the Hokey Kokey...

Well, a LOT has gone on in the last week or so. Muchas muchas cosas. The week started off on Monday, when the becarios were still at school. I raided the bodega de Urbano for some costumes and bits and bobs that I could use to create noses and ears and stuff for the play that we did for mother`s day. I spent the whole day doing bits and bobs to do with that, and had a really long conversation with Matías, the head gardener dude, about the rainy season and (yet ...

Well. I do think that Guanajuato is possibly the most bizarre place I have ever been to in the whole world. Takes a bit of explaining how I got here though. We got kicked out of our cabaña on Monday by the doc (more on that in a Tepo blog) and so were staying in Cabaña 8 right next to the dining room. So I was awoken at some ungodly hour of the morning by the becarios on Wednesday (I know it was ungodly because I couldn´t even open my eyes proper...

Well, bit of a fun packed weekend in Mexico City. Got there on Friday afternoon (after the legendary Literacy day at Santo Domingo) and found the hotel we´d planned to meet at. I´m sure that the normal rooms were nice, but the ones we stayed in looked like prison cells from the outside. Shared shower and loo and stuff, but they were clean and ours had a telly (of sorts), plus, just 3 pounds 50 a night to stay there. So, we hit the shops, and had a wand...