The Mibby Post

Date: January 20th 2006

We are really enjoying this place! wow! Oaxaco is the classic spanish
colonial city with beautiful stone buildings, southwestern colors, an
active central square with musicians, outdoor cafes, enormous trees with
vast green canopies, smiling mexicans living their lives, art, vendors, a
real sense of the old mixed with a vibrant modern lifestyle for many.

I´ll give you a sense of the daily routine we fell into this past week.
The girls wake up around 7:30 or 8:00 but stay in bed for a half an hour
or so reading. I get up around the same time and walk 8 blocks into the
Zocalo
(city square) to sit in an outdoor cafe and sip coffee and watch the
morning start up. I return in time for Louise to walk 10 blocks or so to
her school. By then the girls have usually had cereal and start work on
their math around 9:00. After math they usually get into a calico game or
draw, read more or engage in other projects. sometime during the day I
propose an
outing either into town on some mission or to one of the many sites to
visit out of town. Because Lily was first sick (soar throat and fatigue)
and then Anna, we´ve only done one out of town trip, but we usually get
into town at least once. Then we typically meet louise in the Zocalo for dinner or sometimes
we´ve cooked dinner at home. Walking around the town is infinitely
fascinating with so many interesting streets, shops, buildings, people,
colors, etc.

Some common questions we are getting, along with our answers, below...

How does Louise like her course?
Louise likes the course alot so far. It is very rigorous and tiring, but
she likes the three other students and the content and the teachers. She
is already practicing teaching and will do it several times next week with
real live students! So far, so good!


How do you and the girls like puttering about on little errands and
adventures?
They like it sometimes, and not others, depending on how tired they feel.
They love eating Flan in one of the outdoor restaurants in the Zocalo!
They also had a great time exploring Monte Alban, the most important
Archealogical site in Oaxaca. A truly amazing mountain top ruin of a city
-with much intact 2,500 years later!

Do you have a kitchen in your bungalow?
We are living in the lap of luxtury for $350.oo US/month. It is a new
bungalow within a building of 4 bungalows. It is quite attractive
concrete with southwestern colors, a safe courtyard, stove (with oven),
Fridge, bath, hot water shower, two bedrooms and as of yesterday, new
furniture. It is on the second story with views of the neighborhood and
distant mountains.

si, and everything else!

Matt, Loiuse, Anna, Lily, Marley