My friends and I in Mexico City for new years. Posadas - A posada is one of the parties leading up to Christmas. Every night people...

Cabalgata - A cabalgata is a horse back ride and a party in one! Usually to celebrate a patron saint, they ride from one town to another,...

Here's some of the work I did early at my site. The big picture is of me helping build a road one day. The small images from left to...

Monday was some final preparation for the swearing in ceremony. Then there was the MexFactor, or our talent show. I did three activities:...

Great week, our last full week of Pre-Service Training. Wednesday we watched Coco in Spanish to prepare for and celebrate Día de Muertos...

It was a great week! Busy but fun. The beginning was all preparation for the eco-fair ( or in Spanish eco-feria) . The idea is that after...

This week was really busy, but really good! Here’s some highlights! Week 7 A week full of technical learning. Monday a biologist came in...

It was a good week, very mellow in terms of events. Among other trainings we went back to the Elementary School in Amealco where I worked...

This week, we continued our Spanish classes, got out bank cards, and took classes on working with and teaching children because on...

This week was dedicated to visiting the area where we are going to work for the next two years: the Future Site Visit (FST). We all left...

Wednesday, September 18th: We went to open our Mexican bank accounts. Thursday: We had our first field based training. We went to a...

The weekend of Friday the 13th - Monday the 16th of September we celebrated Mexican Independence Day. The actual day of the independence...

This week was really the first full week that I have had staying with my homestay family and what the Peace Corps considers as week one...

After the 1am departure flight and a four hour layover, we finally arrived in Mexico around 3pm. The sun felt strong but the heat was...

First day of Peace Corps, August 25th, PC Mexico flew to Washington DC. I noticed a group of six or seven people gathering and asked if...