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Sunday Jun 21, 2009

And so it begins...

Well, I have now arrived in Mexico...still pretty bewildered and overwhelmed at the moment, but enjoying it nonetheless! The week of preparation came and went without hiccups, and on Friday morning I set off to the airport to catch my 8 hour flight to New York where I stayed the night, and praised the 5 hour jetlag which allowed me to get up at local time 4.30am with no trouble at all to head off for my next flight to PV.

First of my troubles only arrived once I was at Puerto Vallarta airport, where the man who was meant to pick me up was late, and with no contact number written down I was left feeling completely abandoned! Thanfully he turned up shortly after, although then revealed that he did not know where I was meant to be staying, and so took me straigh to the orphanage, which seemed fine until I saw there were no other English speaking volunteers there at the time... so I was left to my own devices to play with the kids wh are absolutely gorgeous by the way! After about 20 minutes some girls did show up though (even though they normally didnt do Saturday afternoons) and sorted me out, so at least it all ended well.

So today is my day off to relax and get to know the place...hopefully soon i will figure out how to do apostrophes on this keyboard, until then please excuse me! Anyway, the internet cafe is really close to the flat so hopefully I will be in touch again soon. Fi.

Posted by Fiona ( 11:02 AM )
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