Viva mexico
Trip Start
Aug 15, 2008
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Trip End
Jan 08, 2009
TJ, Mexico
Monday, September 1, 2008
Begins here, in TJ on the boarder of the USA, helping out kids at an orphanage "colina de luz" hill of light.
the kids were amazing and the places its self was to, maybe 50 kids were there ranging from 5yrs to 19yrs, some with good english some with bad egnlish and some with no english at all. I rolled on in having learnt no spainish studyed no spainish, so it was an interesting first two weeks of mexico. The langage took its time to soak in, but after a few days i got the hang of the very basic words and could speck a tiny bit of it to the kids.
My days at the orphange involved working. I was like a carpenter for the two weeks, working on doors painting and sanding, and doing the same with chairs for the kids rooms, this was all in the hot as sun jajaj like nothing else i had experience jaja, tempertures up to 36degrees and down to like 25 so it was always hot for me there. but i like that, getting a tan while working!!! Muy bien!!
many events took place while in colina de luz, one was a wedding, which was like the biggest event that i remeber from my time, very different from ones back home, but i tell you the food after was amazing i love it!!!
The wedding itself was just different, lil things that happended that i pick up on. But i guess after all every wedding means the same thing! Another day, most of the kids and i got up early from your beds pumped and ready to go for a hill climb, and i do mean early, the alarm went of at 430am, ready to go at 5 to beat the mexican sun. it was good times and a great way to see the city of TJ jajaj.
By the end of my time at colina de luz, i was much attached to alot of the kids and didnt want to leave, but hey i had to and my plane was leave at "1130am" so i had to be out at the airport resonable early...i said my good byes and things packed my bags to leave. Arriving at the airport was funny, ther were alot of cameras and news reporter, i later found out that a famous mexican was coming into land tht day. OK so it was almost time tht i needed to be at my plane,1030am. i rolled up to the ticket lady, with mi amigo who could speck great spainish. "ah sorry but you are later to your plane and the doors have allready shut" all in spainish so i had no idea, i just wanted to get on my plane, no no he cant be its leavin at 1130" " no look here 1045am leave" agghhhhh!!! I HAD READ MY TICKET WRONG!!! flying to monterrey with a friend waiting at the airport for me aswelll!!, and i had no way of contacting him.All i could do was pray!! i managed to get on the next plane, leaving an hour late! so hopfully my friend was going to be there!!! pray, prasy pray!!!!! i told my self!!
