The Mibby Post

Date: January 20th 2006

Hey everyone,
Here are some first impressions of Oaxaca from Lily and Marley for their
school and friends: Kia, could you please pass this on to the Fourth
Grade?
Thanks,
Louise and Matt

January 19, 2006
A message from Lily and Marley Myers to their friends in Calais
Elementary 4th Grade...


Hola, 4th Grade,

We are staying in an apartment on Fiallo (Double LL sounds like Y). On
our street are a lot of shoe stores and next to our apartment is a can
crushing place. There is a Palm tree in our court yard. We walk to the
main square almost every day. At six O'clock this morning, fireworks
went of for a few hours.

One main drink we like is Boing Juice. The kinds we tried are Fresa,
Mango, Uva and Guayaba. We didn't really like Guayaba. We went to see
the biggest tree in Latin America. Here it is called, El Tule. It was
huge and it had a face of a lion on it. The tree is 2,000 years old.
Next to it was a tree that was 1,000 years old. Next to the tree there
was also a lot of mango trees, but the mangos were not ripe. Also next
to the tree were some bushes that they pruned to look like different
animals.

Another place we went to is Monte Alban. It is an old ruin (500 BC) on
a hill. The annoying thing about it is the tunnels were blocked with
gates.
One of the buildings is a ball court. It had two tunnels leading out
of
it. When we were there it was really hot. Another building in it was a
place where you would look at the stars.

The first two days we stayed at a hotel where there were two girls that
spoke English because their father is English. In the court yard there
is a tangerine tree. We ate a lot. They are really good. Another tree
there has lemons. The thing about these lemons is that they are sweet.
We ate some of them. We taught the kids how to paly cards. The first
game we taught them was Go Fish.

We get alot of our food at the market. There are stands of different
things. For example, there is a lot of fresh fruit, meat, vegetables,
hats, flowers, cheese, and party stuff.

Tell us about the bus that flipped over. What's the weather like there?
(Here it is sunny and 80's everyday.) We miss everybody and want to
hear back from everybody.

Good Bye!! Adios!! Que Les Vayan bien!! (Ask Senora Speigel)

>From Lily and Marley