Homestay!

The house is super nice, and it's right on the baranca (ravine). From the street level, you actually walk onto the roof of the house, which has an awesome view of the waterfall. Then downstairs is the kitchen, dining room, living room, and two bedrooms. The house doesn't have any air-conditioning, but the weather in Cuernavaca is so nice that we just open the atrium doors when it gets a little warm. It's so nice, and you can hear the Salto (waterfall) from almost everywhere in the house. My room is on the bottom floor with another bedroom, bathroom, and living area. Off the living area is a really nice garden with a hammock where I do my homework :) Upstairs outside is where the dog, Julius, lives. He is pretty much the biggest dog I have ever seen.

View of the Salto from the roof of my house

My host mom really likes Zumba, so I went with her to the class on Monday night, but when we got there, they told us that the instructor had quit, and that the time had changed from 7 to 6. My mom was really mad because she had already paid for the month, so she organized a few of the other women that were there, and they wrote a letter to the club saying that they demanded a class at 7 or they would leave the club. It was really cool to see my host mom being such a community organizer, haha. Then she went back on Tuesday, and they had a new teacher, who she said was really cool, so I went with her last night. It was pretty hilarious. The first song was the macarena. And I though Zumba was supposed to be all Latin music, but one of the songs was a spanish cover of Twist and Shout...

written by  Kimberly on March 12, 2009 from Cuernavaca, Mexico
from the travel blog: Cuernavaca, Mexico
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