We left our place in Chicxulub on Friday and have spent the last few days traveling to Cancun where we fly out tomorrow. Merida: El Gran Museo del Mundo Maya: Mady: El Gran Museo del Mundo Maya is a big museum in Merida that has information about the Maya and the meteorite that killed the […]
Jade: These are our dresses for our festival. The Fesival Primavera (which is Festival of Spring). Mady: After the festival there is a break for the school for Easter. They have two weeks off and we only get a long weekend. (NO FAIR). Easter is called Semana Santa. Mady: This is the King and Queen
Jade: These are signs about Dzibilchaltun – which was a Maya ruin. The Maya lived here thousands and thousands of years ago. We went to visit the ruins where they used to have their houses, their village and their culture. We walked around and it was beautiful. Jade: It was very hot, but we went
Mady: These are my friends John and Janelle, they came for a week. This is us eating our supper. They are from Nova Scotia like we are. Cenotes Mady: This is an underground cenote (spring) formed when a metorite hit the ground. The meteorites killed all the dinosaurs when it hit the ground like a
Mady: This is the story of my birthday. I felt so happy and I was really excited but I was worried about doing the ‘mordita’ (biting the cake with no hands) in my classroom. Jade: There was a party in Mady’s classroom with cake, juice and pizza and my teacher said it was ok for
Jade: Yesterday we had a Carnival, it was awesome, it was dancing and singing and floats and people throwing candy and I got a little doll that’s name was Roseta, she is in a blue/green and pinkish white dress with long hair and a blue butterfly in the middle. Mady: Carnival is when people dress
We started school this week, for the two months that we are in Mexico. It is a small Montesorri school in the nearby town of Progreso. Mady – The first day I was so nervous, but once I got there it was perfectly fine, because I got to know everybody and I knew what was
Mady: We are on the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico is amazing and hot. There are pelicans all over, and some flew over our house. We have rented a house that has a pool, in a town called Chicxulub (pronounced Cheek Shoe Lube). The person who owns this place has children, so there are play toys
Jade: We went on an overnight bus to get here and the bus had a bano (bathroom), curtains and chairs that go down like a bed. We were on the bus for 10 hours. We are in Tikal, Guatemala. There are great, great pyramids here and they are very old. They were made 2,000 years
Traveling in Guatemala to Chimaltenango, Bolo de Oro, Labor de Falla, Cerro Alto, Lago Atitlan, Panajachel, and San Lucas Toliman. Jade: We went to Chimaltenango it was a big place. We saw a lot of chicken buses and mostly tuktuks. We went in a chicken bus to get there. Miriam’s House Jade: We went to