Amanalco Ravines

Martes – 25 de Junio.

Día 11. “Amanalco Ravines!”

                The second week of classes has officially begun, but getting up at six thirty in the morning is definitely not getting any easier.  After a full weekend of fun getting up this morning was not exactly enjoyable, but we did it, and headed off to school. Classes in the morning were the same as normal- 3 hours of learning grammar, vocabulary, the “textbook” Spanish stuff but then we headed off to the afternoon for some fun! We continued to make our piñatas… my group is definitely not going to win this prize, but that’s okay, we still get to smash our piñata! :)

                

         

After school we headed home for La Comida- today we ate cooked cauliflower with an interesting tomato sauce, rice, and beans. Mamá says that it is one of her favorite meals. We also were calling it the “piña comida” because we were drink piña coladas               and eating piña Jell-O. Muy Delicioso! After dinner we had a little time to just relax and then we headed to El Centro for a bus tour of the town and the Amanalco Ravines. Everything tonight was a little bit delayed because we were uniformed that there was a political rally going on downtown, the elections are July 1^st, and all campaigns adds must be down by Thursday so it was quite the rally. No cars were moving in the roads, there were hundreds of buses lining the sidewalks and sides of the roads, and there were thousands of people crowding the streets, it was quite the experience. The rallies were for Josefina, a women running for president this year, and from the people we have talked to, she isn’t the most popular.

     An ice cream cone later, and waiting for an hour we finally got our whole group together and we made it through the crowds to board the tour bus to Amanalco Ravines. On the way we saw quite a few monuments, famous houses, and even the first hotel in Cuernavaca, established in 1905. When we finally got to the Ravine 231 steps and 4 (terrifying!) bridges later, we got to hear the history of it all. Just 14 years ago the some 300 feet deep gorges were filled with over 300 million tons of accumulated trash. Kenzie dragged me across multiple bridges, we got some good pictures, and experienced a Mexican election rally- all together a great day!

Daily Spanish Lesson #12:

Prize- Premio

To Win- Ganar

Jell­-O- Gelatina

Election- Elección

To Vote- Votar