Banamichi

As Promised... Photos

Here is a photo of me singing our National anthem in front of the whole high school (all of 400 kids). the teacher in charge forgot to bring a recording, and i (jokingly) volunteered to sing it. well i was so nervous i forgot the words at one point! and as you can see my ojos are cerrado.

A La Clase De Ingles. the Mexican students interviewed the americans in English class. They had the most trouble spelling our answers on the worksheets, and i was having trouble pronouncing the mexican alphabet to help! oh and then we sang "no hay tortillas..." (think "o solo mio")

The courtyard of the hotel Banamichi, a beautiful place someone has spent lots of money restoring. it's the dearest place in town to stay, cheapest rooms are $60 a night. Each room is decorated with local art, old tin corona signs, and natural rocks and bricks. the honeymoon suite ($80 a night) had a bathtub you could swim in, with jets.

Agua Calientes, a natural hot spring where we had a barbeque. we rode up there in an ancient school bus on an ancient dirt road that wound and wound around the mountain! This little guy (a wasp?) smiled for the camera just as a snapped the photo.

a view of the channels filtering the water from the spring into the pools. each one was cooler than the last, and we hiked up to where the water came up- it was hot enough to cook an egg (but no sulphor smell)

La Lunata, party under the moon. the kid in the far right (purple hair) did not believe i was a teacher and kept asking me to dance i did not know enough spanish to explain to him the trouble we have in this country with teachers dating their students! all i could muster was "soy su maestra!"

at the science museum in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. Yes i am on a bed of nails! there was a plastic cover with holes and the nails came up with a motor and lifed me up. it felt... weird.

The last night at the school- there was a dance party. there are no extracurricular activites sponsored by the school, so the teacher there takes it upon herself to have music programs (she teaches guitar), a chior, and a stilts club. These boys were AWESOME! PS- the mariachi was my suitor from la lunata.