Day 2

We went to explore Puebla today. The three of us chicas from houston hooked up with a group from New Hampshire for dinner last night and again today for the tour. They are so much fun!! Our Animadore (Host student),Geraldo, showed us how to use the public bus into puebla... if I thought the plane ride was scary the bus.... a million times worse... fun but scary.... It goes like 60 70 miles an hour on these tiny winding cobblestone streets paying little to no attention to the enormous speed bumps they have all over Chaloula. Better than that, the seat that I choose to sit in happened to not be bolted the rest of the bus. It was exciting...

We got to Puebla and walked to the main square. It was only 9:15 on Sunday morning so everything was still closed so we wondered around til 10 looking at chuches... so many churches...more and more churches... Then we found a bookstore and I picked up some books in spanish. It was starting to get hot and we were thirsty so we headed to an icecream shop Gery knew about. Ice cream is very different here. Not really all that sweet... with a little tartness thrown in. It was time for our bus tour about the time we finished, which worked out nicely. (Gery is a good guide) The tour was about an hour... which was fine except it was very very sunny, very very long, and when ever the bus stopped HOT. But I got the general overview of the city and added some places to my list of must sees. After the tour we were all starving so we went to a little resturante off the square about 4 blocks... The food was very good!! However about 1/2 way through our soup course Jen hollers out ¿Que the f#@! is that? after we had all finished laughing at her... interesting... mix of spanish and english we found she had discovered a worm in her soup. It was very diappointing because It was so good... A Tomatoe type broth with broccli in it. None of us could finish ours. But the rest of the meal was good and bug free. Luch made us realize how increadably tired we were so we decided to make one last stop to show us how to get to the local walmart (muy importante tienda) and then we headed back to the dorms. Tomorrow we start classes so wish me luck. I am very nervous about them.