Last week we spent four days in Oaxaca. We had a lot of fun there! We stayed in the house of the translator my dad was working with. Most of the days we had school. Yes we still had full school. :) But my mom and I still had some time to walk around.
One day we went downtown to do some shopping and sight-seeing. We went to 3 churches, 2 museums, and 1 market. Our first stop was an anthropology museum in a former convent. It was a huge museum! I don't even think we saw everything in it. Then we went to a very beautiful church. Almost all the decorations were gold or a gold color; it was very bright! (Even though you can't see it in the picture, imagine the entire wall is bright gold.)
After a while we got hungry, so we went to Cinnabon. Yes, we were very cultural. ;) The market we went to was
very large! There were t-shirts, belts, food, and
a lot of other things for sale. One aisle of the market was filled with leather sandals and shoes. There were a lot!! We didn't buy any shoes, but we did buy grasshoppers (which is a popular food in Oaxaca), mole (sauce), a yarn belt, and some wooden bookmarks.
The second museum we went to was called The Palace Museum because it was in a former palace. When we went in, they gave us a very generous portion of hand sanitizer. We pretty much bathed our hands and arms with it, and soon after we were very sticky. And we still had some left to wipe on our jeans. It had the biggest tortilla in the world! But you couldn't eat it. This museum was very interactive. The displays were about music, clothing, food, inventions, animals, languages, games around the world, and many others that we didn't get a chance to see. I liked that you could learn a lot from the activities even though you didn't know Spanish perfectly.
The next day it rained, although apparently it hardly ever rains in January. But we still went to some ruins on the top of a hill called Monte Alban. This place was
huge! We were so high up that the clouds were like on the ground. That was cool! In the drizzle, we saw a lot of tombs, stone carvings of swimmers and dancers, and the ball court. We learned that the ball court wasn't so much about sports as it was about religion. I can't really express how large this place was and how tired I was from walking all around it and up the steep steps.
love the picture of Rachel...great post, Rach!
ReplyDeleteYes, great post. I like the part about you being so willing to try such DIFFERENT foods and wanting to learn about everything you are seeing. I do like the idea of throwing a little cinnabun into the mix tho. How are you doing with writing down what you know, what you learn etc.? A large book won't hold all you are learning. Proud of you and, yes, even a little jealous.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about giving you a hard time Rachel, because I've been missing your writing. This post is very informative - as usual. It's neat to read about stuff as seen through the eyes of a kid. I hope you aren't too sick of ruins and beautiful churches by the time I get there. I'm anxious to see some stuff. Go ahead and eat the grasshoppers, though, if you want!
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Hi Rachel - so that's the mystery - a giant tortilla? (The picture posted on FB?) Did they cover it in gold or something? It looks pretty cool! Although it looks like it could use a little salsa. :)
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