Mexico City

We made it to Mexico City on Saturday after spending Friday night with Leticia, Paco, and Chaak (friends of Rachel's family that lived in Durham until recently). We had a nice visit with them, though my getting sick on Friday night made it harder for me to enjoy myself. I was sick for most of the night throwing up and having diarrhea and since then I've felt under the weather, but I've been improving everyday. Today I almost feel normal again and I had my first real meal in days!

We've spent the past two nights at the house of a friend that Leah and I met when we studied in Mexico last year. Martin lives with his family and has given us his room for the week. His whole famliy is very sweet and his mom is a wonderful cook. We've seen a few of other friends that we met while studying here and today we spent the afternoon with a host family that we stayed with for a few days last September. They are a very sweet and large family (28 people live in their house) and our host mom spent a few hours catching us up on how the family is doing and talking about Mexican politics. The new president, Calderon, promised to help the poor, but prices for tortillas, gas, and milk have recently gone up and a lot of people are suffering and blaming him for the changes.

We're planning on spending the rest of this week in Mexico City, visiting more friends and passing more time with our host family. Leah and I also want to show Rachel some more of the places that we visited when we studied here. We're thinking that we'll take a bus to Oaxaca this weekend, we've heard that the political situation is much better there and we're looking forward to visiting friends and host families there as well.

I hope that everyone is doing well! Hugs and kisses to all!