day 11

february 5, 2014

7 am:

we are up bright and early for school (!!!) we are going to leave here in about half an hour, and walk downtown to school. we didn't register yesterday, so we want to get there nice and early to get that done. we're currently having lattes with vanilla and nutmeg, and eating fruit for breakfast.

good morning oaxaca!!

8:30 am:

we're at our spanish school! we've signed up for just 3 days, today through friday. we figure that we can always do more next week if we want, but for now we'll just do a few days.

i forgot to mention that last night i figured out that gina can understand multiple GPS coordinate formats! i literally squealed and hugged mike. having incorrect GPS coordinates has been one of the most frustrating things on this trip so far, and honestly i feel like a bit of a derp for not figuring it out earlier. however, at least going forward we'll have better luck finding places (i hope).

since we just showed up this morning wanting to take classes, our teacher won't be here until ten, so we're just hanging around and using the free wifi until then ;)

6 pm update:

spanish class was kind of meh. we asked the teacher for a bunch of stuff that we specifically wanted to know about re traveling (things we might need in dealing with police, asking directions, customs, etc) , but after that she didn't seem to have much to teach us, which was confusing... i assumed there would be some sort of curriculum?? anyway, we're going to go back tomorrow and if we're still not pleased, we'll ask for a refund for friday and take off to the coast.

after class, we went and wandered around the market. it was really neat, and we found a fabric store with unbelievably cheap fabric (totally going back there tomorrow to buy some). we bought a big hunk of ginger for $5 pesos (about 45 cents CAD) and 2 onions for $5 pesos as well. we were going to get some local food to eat, but the experience in the food market was just too overwhelming/frustrating for my tried self. i remember this kind of behaviour from previous trips, but i'll never get past how RUDE i think it is when every place you walk past shoves a menu in your face and yells at you. even if i was considering stopping, that just totally puts me off. i started doing the obi-wan kenobi hand wave, and telling them that i'm not the tourist they're looking for.

eventually we found our way home, and had a cerveza and a snack here, then a bit of a siesta (after a shower i would describe as lukewarm - it certainly wasn't hot, but it wasn't cold either... however the shower was 100% flipflop territiry - you could not have paid me to put my bare anything on any part of that gross little tile box).

we're looking into camping south of here, but not finding much info. we might head north instead, as mike did make copies of a bunch of info on camping in the yucatan. we'll see.