One family's account of living in Mexico for a year.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

HEY everyone i miss u all, so well as u all know we went to our campa and was great i loved it so much!! i will try to explain everything as well as i can, but it was something that u can not explain, it is something u have to do for ur self to know how it is!! well on monday we had to get to school early in the morning so we left the house at 6:30 in the morning and got ther about 6:50 and we were leaving for the beach at 7:30 i dont know why we left so early but jorge and nick wanted to leave really early to get on the bus and get a good seat! well i have to say it i was a great idea to leave early cause i got the seats in the very very back it was great and we had fun the whole ride. we had two buses bus 1 and bus 2 i was in bus 2 and nick and jorge were in bus 1. (the people that went to campa was all 7th, 8th, and 9th, graders of our school and we had to pay money about like 500 dollars and a lot of people did not have the money for it and if u did not go u had to go to school and some kids did, i think that would stink!!) well on my bus we watched movies , fly away home and pirates of the caribbean i think the third one. i sat with marifer my best friend for half the ride then with omar then with huass it was just a lot of fun and LOTS of sleeping!
This pic is of me and marifer early in the morning with our great seats!! ther must me somthing int he water in mexico cause my hair is so curly i love it!














in this pic it is Eduardo and marifer in the bus!!This is my one of my best guy friend his name is omar ! me tried cause well i dont think i told u but the ride was 6 hours and i got really tried cause we woke up early to get to school early!me and huass sleeping on the bus it was long!








so well we get there after 6 hours of driving we did stop to buy chips and stuff and drinks but in this trip we were not allowed to have and candie, chips, or anything bad for u and we were not allowed to take ipods or cell phones but yet everyone did take everything i took like three big backs of chips and candie so we could eat something good at night but the bad part was that mom took our ipods so i could not take it! so the hotel was not that great it was like to queen sized beds and and a bath room and our room had tv with sky so we watched two and a half men and movies. i have to say i hated the bath room it was like a small room with a shower a toilet and a sink but the toilet paper was outside the bath room what were they thinking!! but when u took ur shower the whole bath room would be wet because it did not have the shower sperated from everything else so when u were done the toilet would be all wet and it was just really gross. but we were not in the room a lot so it was not to bad! Also we were seperated in to groups and they were colors i was purple jorge was red and nick was blue the group did everthing together like eat, play sports, and look for turtle in the night (i will talk about that in a little)







this is my friend polla and she was on the purple team but she changed cause she wanted to be with her best friend and and eduardo wanted to be with us!! but we are waiting to be called to eat we at all together everday. the food was good sometime hard but good. the guy in the back ground is moe and was the guy that was in charge of everything!













this is saul, rene, huass,and vanessa and we were not allowed to go swiming we went swiming one day for about like 2 hours and that was it for the 5 days we were there. the part were our hotel was the waves were really strong. but it was so pretty!!







Well everyday before the sun went down we would have a talk about what we are going to do in the night or sometimes there would be great blue whales and we would watch them but they were really far away u could not see them that well but one time we saw it jump out of the water all the way it was really cool to see.

me and marifer!

nick getting ready to let go of his turtle we did this every single night i have to say it was one of my fav. thing to do!! but like the last to day the really dum kids would complain and say " do we have to" and that would make me so mad cause they dont know how lucky they are!!







me with my turtle!! omg look how i got burned!! but right now it looks so good it is a great tan! jajajja i look like my turtle!!






nick and jorge with there turtle this is such a cute pic!! we did this everyday watching the sun set!!

and the boys they think they aer so cool but they are jajaj!!






everyone in my school leting go of there turtle!






Me and marifer then me and saul on the day that we could swim we went to a different part of the beach! it was a lot of fun we would go into the water and the waves were still pretty hard but we made like a human wall and the we would stand there and have the wave push u down i know it sounds dum but it was a lot of fun!!

























after swimming in the water it was great!!ok well every night we would eat at like 8 o clock and then we would have the time of rest for about an hour then we would leave at 10:30 to 11 at night to walk on the beach to see if we can find nests of turtles laying there eggs and we did this everynight we would walk about 3 or 4 miles everynight we would come back to the hotel about 3 or 2 a.m. i have to say i did get tried but we would have so much fun. like who gets the chance of walking on the beach and 2 a.m. with ur friends and finding turtles and stuff. we would walk in then dark the only light we would have was the moon. for our searches i saw 3 turtles and 5 nests! the most eggs we got from one nest was 138! they lay about 90 to 150 eggs!! i got the chance of watching two mommy turtles lay there eggs and catch on in my hand!! also to touch the big turles!! we would find a lot of died thing also like this puffier fish and this died snake!! but we alway had a great time~!this is my first turtle that we saw!! well he is the story with this one well so we had a break and so i was sitting by myself cause i wanted a moment to remeber and just to listen the the ocean and think and so i am sitting saying please turtle come out i want to see u and all i see is this black thin coming out of the water and i start to to freak out it was about 9 feet from me and i got into shock and so my teacher runs to me and tell me to go with him so she down not get scared! but it was great she came out right in front of me and these are her eggs in the nursery because we moved them they are the size of a ping pong ball this is the turtle that i cought the eggs in my hand i was something iwould never forget!! well also one of our activitys was that we got to see how people take down coconut and so me and saul shared one we had to drink all the water that sas in it then they cut in in half and me and him and it all i thought i was going to explod!! but it was fun!me after eating so much i the









hammock i love this pic of me!!!



Also we had do this thing that we went to this swamp and we went in a boat and looked at the birds that lived there i love it but i was really hard!!the swamp was as big as 20 football fields it was so big i could not believe it!! me nick and jorge after letting the turtle i think good pic!!


me and nick!




on the last night we had a dace and was great saul does know how to dance he is so cute!! then we had a camp fire then we went to look for turtle again!

my whole school i am with saul in the left side!! we had a great time it is something that i will never forget and i have loved every minute and i wish u were all there to see it and enjoy it with me! i miss u all like crazy!

3 comments:

Muffy said...

wow! what a wonderful blog! this is an experience of a life time and i'm so happy that you two were able to enjoy it so much. the pictures are amazing! you and nicholas look really good.. when you come to pittsburgh, everyone will be jealous of your tan..just be prepared for VERY COLD WEATHER! i cant wait for you guys to come stay with us.. i'll start cleaning my apartment! call me soon! i love you and miss you all

Unknown said...

Amazing! I knew that trip would be incredible, but I can't get over all the cool things you got to do! Thanks for writing such a great blog entry about it! I'm so jealous and impressed and happy for you guys! I can't wait to see you two. I miss you lots.

jb. said...

lariss, this is insane. thanks for sharing. i'm not sure if i'm more impressed with the stories or the pictures - you look really great. i'm glad you're enjoying everything over there, but i hope you still miss the burgh a little. :) can't wait to see you, kid.