Updates March – June 2008

Passed 3 months without updating the blog. During this time happened many interesting things one of most important is changing my living country, but I will go step by step with very short and breath update about this 3 months.

After coming back from Chiapas in end of February, next weekend I alone went to visit Taxco – silver city. That is magic city, everyone should visit it, where all houses are white and roofs are red.

Another weekend one of my Colombian friends invited me to Colombian carnival here in Mexico and I had great amount of fun. I participate in not so big carnival in the morning, then I got to know many other Colombians and with this entire people from Carnival we went to eat, drink and then dance salsa on the street till 11pm. I was tired but extremely happy.

 

In the end of April happened very important event – my last National conference as MC. It was in Puebla. I got opportunity to say bye to many members, most of whom I will not meet again, also it was conference where I was delivering sessions in Spanish and it made me very happy, because it is next level of my Spanish.

 

 

In May in Mexico we got 4 days vacations so 2 of them I used for my work for International Congress and other 2 I went with LC EBC and my Colombian friend Ronald to Acapulco. Later other 2 friends (Colombia and Italy) joined us there. First day we spend on the beach walking, drinking beer in the night we went to the disco with open bar. Those days were good. Next day I wanted to go to another place, so we went to another beach that was magnificent. Silent, without people, with hamacs, with coco nuts for 0.5 USD J We were doing nothing there, sitting and talking, sleeping in the hamacs and enjoyed that day to maximum. Then 2 friends left to Mexico city, but we with Ronald stayed longer there talking about psychology, meaning of the life and different problems in this world. And when we had to get back from the beach to the home (where we stayed in Acapulco), we almost stocked there because of the traffic. It was huge, so we even decide to go home walking. After walking more then 1 hour we saw that traffic in that place finished and we hitchhiked a car to go to home. So in the morning to arrive to the beach we spent 20 minutes in taxi, to get back we spent 2 hours ;(

 

Next weekend I went Tula with one of my new Colombian friends – Sandra for 1 day. We went there in the morning to watch on famous monuments and because we made it fast we decide to go also to Pachuca. In Pachuca there are not many things to see, so we moved a bit further to one small town next to Pachuca and that was extremely nice one. Small, silent with it's special atmosphere and special food called Pasta.

 

Another day was raining very hard and during that night I managed to make what I was dreaming about – photo of the flash J

 

Another weekend with LC EBC and some my friends we went to climbing trip to Iztlaccihuatl. It is very famous mountain not far from Mexico city and it was the day when I first time saw the snow in the last 15 months. When we were climbing down, one girl not from our group felt very very bad and I was helping to bring her down almost from very top of the mountain where we went to the bottom part of the mountain – it was hard, but without our help she might die. But that trip I enjoyed a lot. In the night we came back and with other interns we went to the Zocalo to watch concert there, that is for free. We stayed there till 12am, just to manage to catch the last metro.

 

Another weekend I went second time to Valle de Bravo with my friend Jennifer. We went by her car and visited very impressing places there and going back I was driving car for 1.5 hours. It was cool to remember how to drive ;)

 

Next week came event that we were waiting for long time –AIESEC Mexico 45 anniversary. It was made veeeery good, great success of my team mate Ligia and organizing committee. There came very important people, very famous people and the event was done in very fancy way.

 

The next day after 45 Anniversary my team mate Juan Manuel was doing his bye bye party. It was as all parties in Mexico – with a lot of people, loud music and a lot of alcohol J We also brought cake from the 45 anniversary event and people was destroying it by putting their faces inside. In the morning flat looked complete disaster.

 

On Monday I was celebrating my birthday. I was doing it the way we celebrate it in Latvia. I invited only special friends, making not possible for random people to come there, I cooked (with some help from Juan Manuel), we were drinking Champaign, playing games and guests brought me presents. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

In my last weekend in Mexico I went to San Miguel de Allende to meet my friend Erika there and also get to know this famous city. The city is very nice, but after listening what people was telling about it, I was expecting something more. But I enjoyed a lot to spend time with Erika, I saw her last time many months ago. In the Sunday we with her went to botanic garden. It was completely about cactuses, so pretty interesting for me :)

 

On the Friday (1 day before my flight to Brazil) I went to house of my Mexican family and stayed there all the evening and Saturday morning. We had good party there and I met Mariana (one of my first non AIESEC friends), who 2 weeks before returned from her internship in Germany. In that night we with many friends of the family was having a party till 7 am. It was really cool. Half of the night we were playing different cool table games and at 5 pm of Saturday I took my flight to Brazil.