Corinne's Big Adventure: September 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I went to Acapulco this last weekend and it was amazing and beautiful. Our hotel was right on the beach! It was great, but apparently if you are a 6 or 8 year old boy, you would rather swim in the pool than at the beach, so I only got to spend about 20 minutes out of the whole 2 days on the beach, super sad. I have never lived near the ocean and this was only my third trip to a beach but I must say that I feel so at home near the ocean. It is beautiful and peaceful and I love the perfect sound of waves hitting the sand. I have been thinking a lot lately about a lot of different things, and the thing about making a major scary decision like this is that it makes you feel that you can do anything, and I really do. I am making a plan for myself and my future and I am liking the looks of it. But anyways... major tangent... back to Acapulco. It was so humid there, the air was like water, and as evidence, I now have a killer cold, but it will go away soon I hope. I am having a good time here and I am so glad that I made this decision and had this opportunity. That is not to say that it is easy, because in fact, living in a country where you don't speak the language without your friends and family nearby is pretty hard. I really miss everyone, but still I would not miss this opportunity for the world. Well... maybe for the world :D One not so happy peice of news is that coco has been given away. I loved that dog so much even though I only knew her for 3 weeks or so... and I was so sad when she left, I cried more than was merited perhaps but what can I say, I am a crier. Otherwise, things are good and I am happy. Check out the pictures, it was beautiful there!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Cuernavaca

Hi everyone! I just went to Cuernavaca last week and it was AMAZING!!! I took Like a million pictures, so bear with me, please :D It was so beautiful! A couple of pictures are just from at the condo... the bug is one that is very rare and native to Mexico City, Carli and Otti caught it while we were insect searching. THe other people in the pictures are Belin, Milo (meelow), Chiao, and Antonia. I just met them the night before we went to Cuernavaca, well except Belin. It was crazy because they all spoke only Spanish, and we were together all day having a blast! I understood a lot! The soup is what we ate at this little restaurant by the Market, it was really good! The tropical looking pictures are of the huge park in the middle of the town, it was so cool! There is also a picture of the castle there, it was built on top of some ruins of a Pyramid, well... they weren't ruins until the castle building people decided to tear them down!

Monday, September 07, 2009

Here are a whole bunch more pictures! THey aren't in any particular order, so just have fun looking!
Max

My delicious, finished plate of cake

me in front of the park

Ham and melon hours devours

Grape and cheese

The Garden

ANd more garden...

and more garden

Fresh orange juice from a vendor in the park

Drinks at the party

Curry

Condo Administrator Guy

Coco on my bed

Me chopping

Carli and otto

Carli

Cake

Birthday

Belin, cooking (maritsa's daughter)

Belin and I

Me being amazed

My witch game

Attempts to put the wands in the right place

Hats

The finished witch

Entrance to the park

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Pictures of mexico!

Okay everyone! Here are some of the long awaited pictures! I was going to label them but that turned out to be the devil, so I decided against it! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment! Okay so now someone said I should caption... fine! Captions it is!
Yarri (she is a maid who doesn't live with us)