Trip to Huatulco

I had a wonderful weekend trip with the other ILP teachers to Huatulco. It was all planned very last minute but probably one of my favorite trips. We got to relax on the beach, eat great food, snorkel and really bond as a group. My time here is ending soon but I love it here soo much and the vacations are awesome!!

Goals

All the time I try to make goals but I especially try to make goals while living abroad. Living in Ukraine and Mexico have been the biggest learning and growing experiences. Something that has helped me is making goals and accomplishing them.

Since my time is quickly ending here I want to make more goals. Here are some of my new goals that I hope to accomplish:

1. To try new things. Everyday try something new and go out of my comfort zone. Whether talking with more people in spanish or trying a new food.

2. Live everyday to the fullest. Change up my daily routine. Do something fun everyday, spend time with friends do fun things.

3. Continue to grow spiritually. Read scriptures everyday, continue to have group fhe, try to be even better everyday.

4. Take lots of pictures. Take at least one picture everyday to represent that day.

5. Smile and be happy. Think of great things in everyday and smile and enjoy every moment. Laugh at things that are difficult or annoying.

These are my goals. I want to really try and make them happen. I strongly believe that making goals and accomplishing them makes you and even better person and makes your life experiences that much better!

Things on my mind

1. I need to blog more often. I'm having all these amazing experiences and just forget to write about them. Hopefully I will get into a better habit now that i'm a little bit less busy.

2. I got into two very good colleges but i'm going to have a hard time deciding which one to go to.

3. Speaking Spanish is sometimes more fun than speaking English.

4. I've traveled to lots of wonderful places, learned lots, experienced many things. It's amazing how much you can learn by living in another country and immersing yourself in the culture. Now the difficult thing is deciding what to do next with my life.

5. Living in Mexico is amazing! I love constantly speaking Spanish. I love the warm weather, the freshly made corn tortillas, the kids we teach, the teachers I teach with, etc.

6. The kids here know soo much it's amazing! They sometimes use bigger words than I do.

7. I need to take more pictures here.

8. I will be home in 2 months. My parents visit in 16 days!!

9. Time has flown by soo fast.

Here are some pictures:

The Elementary kids 

My tan lines from my toms

The temple in Oaxaca

Another picture of the temple

A picture of our dance classes

Things that are unique to Mexico!

Here are some fun things about Mexico:

*Fresh squeezed juices everywhere

* I stand out anywhere I go

* My spanish is improving

* Tortillas are a huge staple here

* It's almost always warm and sunny

* My new name is Maria(Mallory is hard to say)

* I can pay for things with coins!

* Soap operas are watched by all

*driving is crazy here

*Running late for things is common here

* People whistle at girls

*I have a wonderful host family

* food has lots of spice

Life in Mexico!

I've been very bad at blogging lately so here's some pictures of what i've been up to:

Daniella, Juan Pablo and Alejandro(my awesome host siblings!)

My jello cake they made me on my birthday!

I got my nails done(although I ruined them after 10 minutes lol)

Here are some pictures from a trip I took to Puebla a few weeks ago:

Me in front of a church 

A double decker bus we rode on!

A view of the city below

More of the city

The teachers and I posing with people that were dressed up for a fundraiser for one of the schools.

Pictures from a cute colorful restaurant we went to:)

In Mexico!!

So i'm here in Mexico!! I arrived 5ish days ago. I love hearing spanish everywhere and the constant warm weather. Yesterday was the first day of teaching and it was great. I only wish I could pronounce the kid's names better. The food is great! People constantly honk or whistle at us American girls. It's something to get used to. I hope to take more pictures so that I have some to post on this.

Going to Mexico!!

Hey!! I'll be heading to Mexico in 22 days! I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to be a head teacher and to try and make the teacher's experience even better than the experience I had in Ukraine!

I hope to update my blog lots while in Mexico:) Do you have any upcoming travel plans?