Hi all! Its been a while since we updated our blog so we thought we should let you all know what we have been up to... We have been in Tlaquepaque for nearly a month now. Time is flying by! We are living in a house with 2 other teachers (Sean & Kelly) which is about 10 minutes walk from our school. Our house is bright orange (see pics!) We are teaching English to kids & adults, from 6 years old upwards... its hard work but we´re having lots of fun...

Hi all! We are exhausted! We´ve spent the last two weeks studying very hard to become qualified teachers and its been a killer.... most days were 10am to 9pm and then we had homework and reading to do at home... the hard work was worth it though, we both passed with flying colours (both got over 80% in the exam!) and managed to get jobs straight away... So last night we got on a nightbus to Guadalajara, arrived at 7am and got a taxi to Tlaquepaque where we wi...

¡Hola!, So, our course starts tomorrow and from what we hear it is a pretty intense two weeks so we thought we'd do a quick update before we get into the first step of (mis)teaching a generation of Mexicans. On Monday we went to Xochimilco. This is the furthest south of the centre we've been and has a beautiful network of canals. We took a boat out and after we had been given our two options decided to go for just an hour instead of 6 hours(!) The canals we...

Hi! Well we've been in Mexico for a week now so we thought it was time we updated you all.. We arrived in Ciudad de Mexico on Monday afternoon and after filling out a 'do you have swine flu' questionnaire (which consisted of just 5 tick boxes!) we took a somewhat scary taxi journey to our new home for the next month.... We are staying with the Canadian cousins of our course tutor, very nice apartment and couple...and they have 2 huge labradors! Anyway, unfortun...