We just completed our week-long Spanish course and volunteering at an orphanage in Morelia. We were only able to spend a few days at the orphanage, but we loved every minute of it and were able to make a small, but significant difference. In addition to organizing the toy room, a 20x20 mess of stuffed animals, radio-controlled cars and action figures, we were able to tutor two of the children (David, 10 and Toño, 8) who had just arrived at the orphanage and had never been to school before. While our Spanish course did a great job explaining the intricacies of the past and future tenses of the language, it failed to brush us up on our ABC´s. As a result, David and Toño now know their ABC´s in a mixture of Spanish, English and French. We were sad to leave Morelia after spending almost 2 weeks there, but were ready to start traveling.
We just arrived in Zihuatanejo after spending 2 nights in Uruapan, a quaint town with a national park (think Yosemite and Disneyland, only with more taco stands). We also hiked 557 steps to the base of a waterfall, where we enjoyed the view while eating salted, limed and peppered watermelon and jicama. Much better than it sounds. We are now sitting in the only air-conditioned room in all of Zihuatanejo, a beautiful but humid beach town where you can drink the air along with $1 beers. We plan on spending the week relaxing by the water and making our way up the coast to Acapulco before heading back inland, through Taxco to Mexico City. We have to go pick up our clothes from the lavandaria now (a much needed task we finally had a chance to do!).
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