Fran on August 30th, 2009

Ok, I am back! After being hit for six by some stomach bug last weekend I’ve been feeling run down all week and have only been able to face eating one meal a day. I think I am finally perking up now, but must drink more water!
As I spoke about in my previous post we [...]

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Fran on August 24th, 2009

So much for my fussy eater! Today as we were walking through the big market in the colonial part of Oaxaca we passed a chapulines seller who I struck up a conversation with. Lillia had insisted we try chapulines when we moved to Oaxaca and at least now I can say we have. Chapulines, for [...]

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Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I haven’t posted any new entries for a couple of days. For this I have to thank my lovely little daughter (there is a touch of sarcasm in there). My lovely girl decided to go wild on my laptop and she has corrupted the network settings [...]

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Fran on August 10th, 2009

I’ve been feeling like a fish pulled out of the sea and dumped on to strange land. Since the Uruguayans arrived Spanish has been the main language in the apartment. Everyone has been speaking Spanish, including the long-term French couchsurfer Lison, and another French couchsurfer and her English friend who were here last week. They [...]

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Fran on July 15th, 2009

Wow! We’ve been in Mexico City for a week and on the one hand the time has flown by, yet at the same time, it feels like longer, like there is a comfortable familiarity as if we’d been here months.
We didn’t have the lazy day mentioned in the previous post but instead we went into [...]

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Fran on June 27th, 2009

I found a fun new way to learn Spanish the other day. It’s an online website where you can either pay for premium content or just use the basic content for free! Live Mocha offers tutorials for various languages and then feedback from native speakers of your chosen language is given on your submittals. So [...]

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We are really taking going to Mexico seriously! Yesterday while we were out we stocked up on a Spanish dictionary and a Spanish language course. We checked out Spanish for Gringos, yeah there really is a book by that name! But it wasn’t in depth enough. I whittled it down to a Berlitz book with [...]

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Fran on June 2nd, 2009

Inevitably things don’t always work out on the road as you pictured them during the dreaming and planning stages of the trip. In this instances it was one of things I most looking forward to witnessing. And one of the most essential.

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