Oaxaca Day two

First off im going to say that learning how to use this key board is really hard. there are so many keys and leters that we are not used to it makes it a little complicated but is not that bad. The compuer we have been using is located in the loby right now i hear all the empolyes yelling to eachother..it is about time to start cleaning the rooms, we just had a wonderfull breakfast made by the staff hear at the hotel. Yesterday after we hadbreakfastour tour guide whom was a good friend of Inid showed up with his son. He told us about the history and culutre here in Oaxaca, it was fasinating. After he lead us around the ctity to the Zocolo wich is like a center square or downtown we may have in America. On our way we stoped at the market it was buzzing. It was a place for the senses the diffrent smells of the foods, drinks, spices, and even the leather we passed were all very strong. The colors of the clothes and other goods were vibrant and amazing all over. All around us was the sound of spanish, everyone was speaking it besides us. I think it amazes all of us how much we have really learned already on this trip, i hve become much better with my spanish in just two days and already have carried on basic conversations around the town. Although yesterday before we left on our venture we all decided that we were going to go across the street to the interent place, while we were there we had two interesting exsperiences with our native language. A older ma walked up to us and asked me to look over his english workook, he showed us his ID an told us he was trying to learn english, it was a really amzing exsperience. Also it was the first time that we noticed American music, the song Apologise by One Republic came on, the more we walked aroud the more english music we heard.

Yesterday was also the end of the teachers protest here, so when we were at lunch we saw the protest in action and we also saw it end. Later that night we went back to the Zocolo to have dinner ata diffrent resutrant and we saw the clean up process of the protest , huge water trucks with large hoses attached power washing the sidewalkstha ver the past few weeks have become caked with tash and dirt. Although as we were at lunch a group o students came up and asked us if they could interveiw s about our opinions on the protest, we had Sandy translate our opinions and tel the children, it was really interesting.

That pretty much sums up yesterday today we are going to go esplorea little more and then we are off the the air port to pick up Mary Hills and Patrick. Once we do we are off to Otoclan where the school is.

So far the trip has been amazing-Mary