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Now, for our Spanish

March 28th, 2007 by Christian and Alysia.

We´re spending much of our time learning Spanish now.  Our host family is great.  We have a host father and mother.  Queretaro, Mexico is a beautiful colonial city which we are gradually learning more and more about.   Today, we learned some bus routes which makes it much much easier to get around.

Last day at work before heading out…

March 16th, 2007 by Christian and Alysia.

Today was my last day at work and a very good day at that. Alysia and I were treated to a farewell lunch at our local Old Chicago’s and we enjoyed every minute of it. Looking around the table and seeing these friends reminded me of how much we’ve rubbed off on each [...]

Language Learning

March 2nd, 2007 by Christian and Alysia.

The days are ticking down quite rapidly now.  We have just a couple weeks remaining until we kick off our Peace Corps adventure with the staging event in Washington DC and then it’s immediately off to our in-country language and culture training.  Everything we’ve heard and read about Queretaro, Mexico sounds intriguing.  We’re excited about seeing [...]

Can anyone post some easy instructions for adding a picture?

February 15th, 2007 by Christian and Alysia.

Thanks much if you can!

I wanted to added a picture of Queretaro. Let’s see if it worked

February 15th, 2007 by Christian and Alysia.

Well, I’ll keep trying.