d.f. y teotihuacan

So the weekend was fun! We left Cuerna early and got to the Zòcalo in Mexico city at about 10 or 1030. Funny thing, everyone in Mexico just calls mexico city 'Mexico' so if you are going to Mex City, you just say you are going to mexico...or if you lived there, same thing. even the road signs just say 'mexico' kinda funny no? you'd think that they would get confused but nope. So anyway, we got to the zocalo, which is the main plaza in every town, and mexico city's is really big. It was pretty cool to see the site of so many protests and the HUGE mexican flag flying above it. We split up into 3 groups and our group had a most excellent guide, Carlos. He wore a bandana half the time and was really informative and fun. He was with us the whole weekend. We saw the Diego Rivera murals in the national palace and took a short tour of it. It was really nice to have a guide for the murals because they have a lot of meaning put into a small place. I'm really starting to appreciate his work.
Then we went to an archaological site really near the palace and its kinda weird to see these ruins right in the middle of the city. The whole city is built on top of them though, and on top of a lake so its sinking as well...BUT that helps sometimes because they also are on top of a fault but the water absorbs a lot of the small quakes that they have so...yea, who knew?
We then had time to peruse the cathedral and have lunch. Me and Tayna, Katey and Amber got away from the rest of the group a bit to minimize the confusion and just not have to deal with so many people trying to eat and found a really nice little cantina. It had the old oval booths and looked a bit like an old bar in chicago or an irish pub. The lady there made us some good rice and pork and we were satisfied.
There were some people dressed up in indigenous clothing doing a big demonstration right in one of the streets leading up to the zocalo. It was amazing but blocked traffic so our bus was late but we got on and went to our hotel in the zona rosa. At 4 we went to the anthropological museum...which is incredible! it is huge, for one thing...we only saw like 3 rooms of it and we were there for 3 hours. I would love to go back someday and really peruse the whole thing. 90% of the artifacts in there are real and ALL of them are from mexico. Truly a rich place. Saturday night we ordered pizza and that was yummy.
Sunday we went to Teotihuacan. I really can't tell you how amazing the place is. The pyramids are just rock but you can feel that they were extremely important places for the people that lived there. I can just imagine what it would have felt like to discover something like that. We climbed both of them, and took pictures which will be put on facebook, no worries. =) The craziest thing about the pyramids is how much I felt like I was back in Angor Wat, in Cambodia. The steps are just as steep and the feel of the place is the same...just the importance and heaviness and ingeniousness of the design and construction. Who says we are the culmination of civilization? not i.
We had a really funny experience when we went to eat. our guide told us there were about 20 restaurants where we were going and we could choose. what he didn't tell us was that they were numbered...and that's all there were. There were people out with signs of their number restaurant trying to get us to eat there...it was surreal, none of them had names, just numbers. us girls ate in number 3 and our food was actually very delicious.
We then got on the bus and came home, altogether a great weekend. Today we had class and i played ball with the guys...come to think of it i don't think i've written about that. Sergio, Hernando, Hymei, and Joachim are guys that play basketball every day at Tec. I started playing with them and we have had fun. Tonight i'm going to eat sushi with the AIM guys and Ailinne and her friend. Yum!