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Yesterday, Wednesday we returned to the school Escuela Moreleos. There we worked with our classes and introduced more english vocabulary such as, parts of the body and days of the week and months. After classes were over one of the teachers and some students took time out of their day to teach us a local art. We created daisys out of dried flowers and pumpkin seeds. The seeds were the petals of the flower, we had to glue them onto the dried flower and then we painted them to get the affect of a real flower. We did this with some children from the school. Another project that we did yesterday was create flowers out of popsicle sticks and dried seed pods on a piece of paper. We ended our school day early and were able to walk around the town for a short period of time and then hopped on a bus to go to lunch. We went to a beautiful restuarant named Los Agaves for lunch where we had three types of tamales, mole, vegtable and a sweet "dulce" tamale. After we went to the Oaxacan Folk Art museum. There were many interesting pieces of artwork that we will not be able to see anywhere else, of course a conciderable amount of time was spent in the gift shop :) The last thing on our agenda for yesterday was to go to a black pottery store. We were supposed to get a demonstration but the artist was in Oaxaca city, so instead we just walked around and shopped.

Today at Escuela Morelos we taught more english vocabulary, we added on to yesterdays teaching of days of the week to teach the children months and numbers up to 31 so they could tell us in english what their birthday was. We also reveiwed body parts with the children by playing simon says and head-shoulders-knees-toes. After school today we did not have an arts and crafts actvity with the children from school so we spent our free time by going back to our home stay to get rest. Today we had lunch in the market we went to a restuarant called Fridas, where the owner and chef truly looked like Frida. There were many options of food from chille rancheros to almond sala chicken. After we piled into the back of a truck and headed off to the backstrap weaving village once we were there we got a demonstration of how the backstrap worked. Amanda, Elizabeth, Laura, Jasmine and Ms. Neale tried their hand at the weaving and were pretty successful. Some people bought some stuff and then it was the end of our day. Now we are home and have pizza waiting downstairs just a little bight of home.