speed bump(s)!

Alright, well so per the title of this blog i am going to talk ( and rant a bit ) about speed bumps. First--they are EVERYWHERE in Cuernavaca! and i don´t mean in residential areas or near schools...they are literaly on every street in the city. sometimes it seems like a smart idea...like before those intersections that have no signal nor stop sign nor mirror to see around the buildings on each corner (and these are not wide streets) so the speed bumps make people slow down so they don´t bash into each other...however, when you are in a bus to Tepotzlan (more on this later) going UP a hill and there are speed bumps, which the driver often ignores, and i can´t blame him cause they are annoying (hint: never sit in the back of a bus here, you´ll be bruised) these on the hill weren´t too large so it wasn´t earth-shaking to go over them. However, in the city there are some that are MOUNTAINOUS and furthermore, what it encourages is cars slamming on their brakes, going over the bump, and then accelerating pell-mell to the next one. And Mexican traffic is anything but orderly, but somehow things work alright. So...
Tepotzlan:
it is about 45 min from Cuernavaca by bus and is in the mountains. It is a great little town in a beautiful setting with the mtns all around it...awesome views. The thing I want to do most is climb up somewhere--there´s got to be trails, but i didn´t bring the right shoes so that will have to wait til later.
I also went to the massive market where the bus station for Tepotzlan is. The place is so big you could really get lost in it. For sale there is everything from fruit and vegetables to clothes to kitchen utensils to dvds and cds. it is fascinating.
The girl I´m staying with is great...her name is Isadora and she runs the university art galleries. She is so helpful and generous and she lives really close to the center but in a gated place that once you get in her apt you can´t hardly hear anything of the city noise...just the kids at the school nearby in the morning. it is a great place.
she has a cat too...and its loco. truly. it makes me laugh all the time
today i´m going to walk uptown and see some different parts of the city and then have dinner with another friend. pretty relaxed, which is great!