Hola! It's Friday and I am finally getting around to publishing a blog entry. Sunday July 6th we went to Tonina, Mayan ruins Southwest of San Cristobal. The ruins were impressive, I did get alot of photos...due to technical difficulties I cannot post them right now, but I will. You never really learn to appreciate physics until you climb about 8 stories of stairs at a 45 degree angle and stand atop this gigantic structure realizing exactly the kind of impact gravity would have on your descent.
There were not many carvings or glyphs due to weathering and looting, but I did manage to get shots of the few I saw. The tour guide was very informative, ie. boring, so I managed to slip away for some nice scenic landscape shots. We finally arrived back in San Cristobal around 6pm, and I must say after a hot sweaty romp in the jungle over some Mayan ruins....beer tastes very good.
The rest of the week passed with essentially school, sleep, more school, and a very nasty fever from Tuesday night through Thursday. Maria was very kind and made sure I took plenty of meds and rested. This weekend we are being left to our own devices for entertainment by the program director, so my teacher seized the opportunity to assign us to go watch a play. It's entitled "Palenque rojo" or Red Palenque, which infers some sort of blood based production regarding the ruins, people, culture of some mix of the above. Off to shove some more delightful dialectical delicacies into my cerebrum. Adios Companeros!
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