Monday, September 9, 2002

LENNY KRAVITZ and drinking milk from the cow

Hello FamilyI have to tell you that I have had a great week. We went to a Lenny Kravitz concert on Saturday night in Mexico City. It was in the Aztec Stadium, the second biggest stadium in the world. It fits 120,000 people and there was about 80,000 at the concert. It was incredible. The people at the concert did something that I have never seen before. They would flash their lighters with the beat instead of waving them in the air. It was cool because the stadium is so big that the flash was a big wave because of the speed of sound.Pink opened, but Lenny was awesome and played for over 2 hours. It was the first time he has come to Mexico so this was big. They announced it every day on MTV mexico for the last 3 weeks. Chris and I went with two girls from Finland and a girl from Canada.Also last week, I started officially this project in the village. We slept over in the house of the teacher. They just barely got a high school here about years ago. The problem is that almost all of the people have family in the US and they feel that it is easier to immigrate to the US and work in horrible jobs to save money and build huge houses in their home villages then to continue their education and stay in Mexico. It is kind of strange how there are these huge houses with no body living in them. However, because of the village depends on farming and their has been a drought here and their crop is ruined, the people depend on the money coming in from their family members in the US. We talked to the students and tried to help them understand the importance of education and to make goals. We also will be teaching English classes every Wed for them. They have 2 teachers for 150 students. We also started our project putting together a book about the medicinal plants for the women of the village. We had a meeting with about 20 of them to get the names of the plants in the community. They are going to bring them next week and we are going to take pictures of them.The people of the village fed us so much. They killed two chickens for us and we drank fresh milk taken from the cow. They boiled it though. On our way home, we were driving through a rain storm on these steep dirt roads and they were dynamiting because they are building a new highway. Anyways we missed our bus home and had to sleep in another town and wake up at 5 in the morning to get home.My parasites are gone, but now I have a terrible cold. You can never win. I love you guys and the YSA are going fine. This weekend because it is the Mexican independence day we are going for 5 days on a virgen beach and sleeping in hamacks for 2 dollars a night.Have a good day

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