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.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Hey it's Thomas

So far this trip has been really fun and as a group we`ve learned so much. We have grown closer and gotten to know the Mexican students as well. Our movies are coming along really well and today my group filmed 4 really good interviews in the plaza next to the cathedral. I live on the other side of town so getting to school and to the teachers`s house takes a while. I go back and forth in a combi which is fun to ride, its like a small bus. Last weekend we went on a tour bus around the countryside to several smaller cities and saw ancient pyramid ruins, a copper workshop and much more. On Sunday I went to a market that was very similar to a flea market, and there were hundreds of people. At this point we are half way through the trip and we still have a lot of work to do, a lot of Spanish to learn and a lot of Morelia to discover.

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