This blog will be a chronicle of my adventures in México City. I'm going there to visit a really close friend of mine, Rubén, and his family. As in my previous Smell of Beijing blog from 2009, I'll be telling firsthand about my experiences and learning in la ciudad, including my desperate bid to learn a passable amount of spanish in 2 weeks.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Día 7
Today I woke up pretty sick. I took a lot of meds and painkillers and tea, and felt good enough to leave the house before 6:30. So we left. We went to UNAM and Rubén enrolled in school. We also went to the neighborhood of Coyoacán, way downtown where Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky once lived. It was a nice place. There were a lot of fancy houses and restaurants, and a huge population of Criollos (Mexicans directly/mostly descended from conquistadores, or white spanish.) By the middle of the day, I felt much better.
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I am sure rest would help with the sickness. Is Coyoacan near the Rose District? I remember the plaza in the center of town and the Rose District and not much else. Are burritos in Mexico anything like the ones we have here?
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the post. I almost feel like I am there.
Aaron