Back by popular demand, I don't know how to say that in español

Hi world, 


I have done a horrible job of keeping up to date with blogging posts and an e-mail notification of a comment calling me out on this fact has inspired me to give the pueblo what it wants.  So in the past couple of months I've been keeping extremely busy.  After a bout with Moctezuma's revenge (that lasted like 2 weeks, dear god) I went out to make up for lost time.  


Here is a list of some of the things I've been up to

• First Annual Taco and Mariachi Festival.  Here I ate delicious tacos of "bistec ingles" - British Steak.  While the idea of British meat was highly unsettling, I found out that it's called this because of the marinating. This is the bomb poster they used to advertise it:

• Visits to fellow Fulbrighters in Cuernavaca (highlights include clubbing til 5 am and waterpark Temixco, and making a new friend who took us to awesome village called Chalma, and also buying myself a pair of hot pink espadrilles) and Puebla (highlights include: a really cool library because I'm a huge nerd, meeting Sarah's awesome theater friends and watching a great movie called "Temporada de Patos, and CANDY AVENUE where EVERY STORE SELLS A TON OF CANDY aka where I spent all of my money that weekend)

Here I am being very ritualistic (shocking!) at Chalma, the first time you visit this village you must wear a wreath of roses and flowers on your head, dance as an offering to the willow tree, and then take a dip in the water to cure your ills.

Biblioteca Palofoxiana, very illegal photograph

Day of the Dead Candy in Puebla

• Family weekend in Cuautla, Morelos with a guest appearance by Maddie!

Maybe 1% of my family

• Releasing my teenage self at an Interpol concert at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City

• Pic-nic or Dia de Campo in Chapultepec Park with a southerner, a cali girl, a colombian and my cousin Beto.  I have embarked on a mission to become really good at hackey sack FYI. 
• Costume party on Saturday night to which I went dressed as Batman (pictures to come soon)
• Also, this may shock anyone who's known me for longer than 2 years, but I am extremely athletic now.  No, really.  I am taking swimming lessons twice a week and may or may not start figure skating classes soon - don't ask.  

So this is just a snippet of what I've been up to in addition to the usual (worshipping my abuelita and sleeping a lot).  

Peace! I will write back next week after I go scuba diving in Las Islas Marietas.  

Besos,

Quesadilla