Day 5 in Cuernavaca

My head is abuzz with spanish words...classes are going well with my instructor Pedro. There are four of us in my particular group a French Canadian woman, who I find VERY difficult to understand spanish with her french accent, a guy from Kentucky whose blend of southern accent and spanish is comical, and another guy from Canada who speaks English and is a little easier to understand. We all meet for classes from nine am until 2pm. Then, we are free to do whatever we want. I have been walking into the center of the town where there are many shops, cafes, artists, dancers, mariachi musicians, and cool old churches. One in particular that is fascinating and immense in size was built in the 1500´s. This particular cathedral is one of the oldest church in all of the Americas.

Yesterday I went to a gigantic market filled with stalls that sold just about everything from food, clothing, anything you would need for your home, etc.. Words cannot describe the hustle bustle in the market - the towers of different kinds of mole, the different meats - some pretty scary looking like parts we would never eat in the US, the live chickens in cages to be sold for fresh meat - everything a vegetarian animal lover would want to see! I did buy some cool candles with the virgin of guadelupe on them for about dollar. By the way, Frida and the Virgin of Guadelupe are everywhere, on everything, in glass cases on street corners - Mary of G, that is.

This weekend, there are two excursions planned - one to the town of Pueblo and the other to Teohuatican where there is a big pyramid to climb. I´ll be getting my workout that day as well as some great photos.