karmicdragonfly | Bucket List: Pyramids -- CHECK! (Reply)

Back from a week in Mexico visiting the pyramids at Teotihaucan to kick off Sabbatical 4! Teotihaucan is about an hour outside of Mexico City. It was my first trip to Mexico, and it was a good, if a bit odd sometimes.

I met some good souls...what I described to my Brazilian friend as 'gente boa' -- good people. I remembered what it was like to be in a place where the sewer system can't handle toilet paper, so you have to put the dirty paper in a trash can next to the toilet. I remembered what it was like to understand almost nothing of the speech around you. I remembered how it was to have something negative happen on the trip but to have been prepared for it!

I met a culture I had never known.

I prayed very uncomfortably and visibly on the top of a pyramid with a group of New Agers. I met a guy from Italy who was in a long distance dating relationship with a guy in the US. I ate prickly pear. I participated in a festival for the Virgin of Carmen. I climbed several fricken' pyramids! I had brunch with myself in a dream. I had a quick visit from Sr. Montezuma. I made at least 1 new friend. I went on a hot air balloon ride.

I sent this picture to a friend as how I felt about all the Spanish! I was pleased at how far my Portuguese got me - I could read the placards in the museum, and generally understand signs, etc. But it only got me so far!