MexEx 2006

Welcome to the CAS MexEx blog! We thirteen Berkeley High students and four fantastic teachers are in Morelia, Michoacán for three weeks, studying Spanish and learning how to be true media activists. We are working with ten Mexican students to create videos about various social issues, including the national elections on July 2. Please check this site daily for new updates. Click on the MexEx PHOTOS link on the right to access our pics.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

mollie

My face is covered in mosquito bites. It is really a large love-hate relationship. They love me and well, I hate them… with a large passion that is. I have gotten mosquito bites on my legs even when I had pants on. I don’t know how they do it, but they always find that one spot on me where I don’t have repellent and they ATTACK it!
I got lost. Not once, not twice, but three times…. so far that is. I have ended up at a Costco that I had no idea even existed. I really don’t think I was in Morelia anymore. It was just a wee bit freaky.
Never the less, this trip has been a blast. School days are fun and the Mexican students are really funny. It has been really interesting to see the different kinds of humor and how they are different from in the US. Like the joke they told us. There was a duck named glue and he fell and got stuck. Since it was still in Spanish when they said it I somehow heard that I was a duck named Glue. After the full translation I still didn’t really understand it, but just for that reason it was all that more funny. I am really excited for the day trips and weekends and anything else yet to come.


ADIOS!

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