Chapter 41: Freedom!!!!

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"Everyman dies, but not everyman really lives"

-Braveheart

Our first breath of freedom in over 3 months. For the first time in 12 weeks, we did not have a class to go to, a place to be or something prearranged to do. Now don't get me wrong, I had a great time during the training, and I am going to miss it. But I am really looking forward to the three weeks free we are going to have before starting to work. A few days after training, you would have found me 300 km from Queretaro in the town of Puebla. We arrived late on the evening of the 16th after taking a bus through the Districto Federal (Mexico City).

Unfortunately for me, the first night away did not start out too well. We found the hotel without any problems, found a small roadside stand to eat dinner at, and then returned to our hotel very tired an full, looking forward to a night of restful sleep. But for one of us (which happened to be me), it was not to be. Let me start off by saying that if the Lonely Planet says "there might be a little noise"it translates into "you can hear every word of every song from the bar downstairs all night long". So lets just say the morning after, I was a little cranky. Luckily the next night we were able to move to a quieter room, and I bought ear plugs (I will never travel without these again).

We only spent one full day in the city of Puebla. It was meant to be nothing more than a stop over on our way to Veracruz. The city is very pretty (though it has a lot of trash on the streets), with a lot of old colonial architecture. We spent the day seeing the sights the city had to offer. we saw the church that was on the 500 peso bill, a temple built upon a hill that used to be an ancient temple, and took a quick tour of the city. During our travels we meet up with an British girl named Ruth who was also trying to see the city, and she ended up joining us for the day.

All in all, if you discount the first night in the hotel, it was a good time...

Spanish School Mexico

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