What a great weekend! I guess I'll start from today and work my way backwards, but I have nothing but positive things to say about my second weekend here in the Distrito Federal. This city really comes alive on the weekends. While during the week, the streets seem full of business men and women scurrying from one corner of the city to the next, crowded streets and traffic, it seems as if everyone pours into the parks and plazas and museums and ferias and street...

I've been meaning to write for the past three nights, but complete exhaustion and inability to think have prevented me from doing so. I have officially survived my first three days of work in Mexico City, and things are going great... By great, I mean overwhelming at times, exhausting, humbling, challenging yet intriguing and rewarding. I don't think I realized when I accepted this internship what kind of responsibility I would be taking on, and while close to re...

Well, it's hard to believe but I am really writing from Mexico City, Mexico. I have been here hardly 24 hours, and yet have much to tell and write about in so little time. My trip here was flawless, and I was fortunate to be sitting between various "chilangos" (chilganos are residents of Mexico city) who I chatted away with for the majority of the trip. We stopped over in Cabo where swarms of U.S. spring breakers also arrived. On my way through customs ...