¡Viva México!

It`s Sunday, I think I won`t go to sleep because there are only four hours left until I´ll leave. I said goodbye to all my friends, neighbours, family (grandma, aunts, uncle) so there´s just my hostfamily left. It´s going to be so hard!
I love Mexico and the people I met here. It´s a country with a lot of culture, history, beautiful nature, happy people, best parties, best food :-)
My exchange year is over, it was a wonderful but also a challenging time. I recommend doing an exchange, it changed my life so much and I´m so glad that I did it.
Everything feels like a dream.
Visit Mexico, you are going to love it.

¡VIVA MEXICO! - te voy a extrañar....

Goodbye

It`s Wednesday, I`ve got only five days left.
On Monday I`m going to leave Querétaro at 5:30 a.m. so I`ll arrive at the airport of Mexico City at 8:30. Carla from AFS Mexico is going to wait for me at the Check-In of Iberia.
12:05 Mexico City - 6:00 Madrid
8:50 Madrid - 11:05 Zuerich
I can take two bags of 23 kg with me. I started to pack my stuff yesterday.
So today I`m going to go an Indian restaurant with all the exchange students, as a goodbye. Tomorrow we have to go to school to give a present to the director. On Friday I`ll spend the whole day with my Mexican friends :-) On Saturday is my birthday so all my family is coming! In the night I`m planning to go dancing and celebrate my 18th :-)
and on Sunday is my last day, I`ll just be at home, realx and preparing everything for my trip home! Wow I`m so nervous and sad and happy and confused and stressed AND excited :-)
home sweet home.
By the way, today Sweden and Russia are going to play: Heja Sverige!!!

CORONA

Con Laura y Jorge

Con mis amigos

Chiapas May 2008

Yo Astrid de Holanda y una pareja de Israel

Enrique, yo y Candy

Yo, Eduardo, Katrin de Canada

Yo como Chiapaneca

Ulises tomando pozol

El sumidero

Mauro Yo Ulises

On the 23rd of May I took the bus to Toluca (a city close to Mexico City, three hours from Querétaro), from Toluca I went by airplane to Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Ulises, a good friend of my sister Sara, picked me up at the airport in Tuxtla.
We went to his house to eat and later in the evening to bar. I met a Swiss guy Mauro, last year he worked in Chiapas as a volunteer, now he came back to visit all his friends. He`s a good friend of Ulises too.

On Saturday I had a really good mexican breakfast: Huevo a la mexicana, quesadillas y fruta - mangos! They have a mango tree in their garden. In the afternoon we went to the canion sumidero and chiapa de corzo. It was really nice but too hot! Que calor

In the evening we went with Mauro, Sara (a French girl, now volunteering in Chiapas), and other Mexican friends from Ulises to San Cristóbal de las Casas. It`s a city in the highlands of Chiapas on 2100 m, so it was a lot colder there.

First we went for some Mini-Pizzas, then to a bar called Revolución with live music - Reggae :-)

later to another disco Bar Fly, continued to El Circo, they played all kind of music, mostly reggae and then at 3 o`clock in the morning to Madre Tierra. Everyone goes to this bar in the end, there were only drunk&drugged people. Kind of strange in the beginning but they didn`t do anything, we stayed until 6 o`clock in the morning, it was so much fun!

On Sunday morning we woke up at 12 o`clock, we went for breakfast and walked around in Sancris. Then we took the bus back to Tuxtla (one hour).

Ulises had to work on Monday, so I stayed with Candy, his Mum. In the evening I went out with someone I met in Sancris. I went swimming at night time ;-)

On Tuesday I met an Swiss exchange student who lives in Tuxtla. She in Mexico AFS too.

The other days I went out with my friend from Sancris. On Saturday I went with an Canadian girl to Sancris again. At night: PARTY :-) lots of wine and dancing!

I wanted to go to Comitan and some waterfalls, but of course there was a hurricane in the south. So because of the bad weather I had to stay in Sancris. On Monday I had to go home. sniff!

Puerto Vallarta (1 - 8 May)