Just a keeping you guys up to date this time, a post absent from astute observations and the like - more a round robin.... We haven’t been that busy this week, just bobbing along, getting used to it all. Its hurricane season here so today we’re sheltering inside from the rain. We went to the Cathedral and a great art museum which had some wonderful Orozco murals – I’m very much looking forward to visiting the Orozco house and museum to learn more. His murals are like nothing I’ve seen before, totally arresting – miserable and violent . Also intriguing that as far as I can tell he had some interesting views on the Mexican conquest/ revolution i.e. he didn’t see the conquest as entirely a terrible affair. We spent a considerable amount of time in a bookshop this weekend, which was frustrating and useful at the same time – but the books were all wrapped in plastic! The idea you can’t look in a book before deciding to buy it is beyond my comprehension. Still I found a good book on Mexico’s history and a not so good book on the revolution. Ellie found a good book about gender relations in Mexico which is all lovely (not the gender relations, that she found a good book). Other than that we’ve been doing life-admin, eating lots, getting confused by the bus system (apparently if a bus says its going somewhere on the front, that’s sometimes just a massive lie). We found a great restaurant, Mexican again, with a lovely homely feel and delicious Mole, the cocoa based sauce the Mexicans eat with meat – YUM! Annoyingly whilst we were there they were filming a puppet based comedy show so grating voices repeating the same un-funny lines was the background to an otherwise perfect lunch. I start my course on Monday, which I am looking forward to, although these couple of weeks of not doing much have been great, I think I will be suddenly overwhelmed and will feel like I have very little free time, we’ll see.
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