MAC

On Saturday, me and Oscar went to see the MAC, which is downtown, where the mail office used to be. We payed $10 pesos because we entered as students.
When we got in, there was a room with like small frames and each one of them had some art, there was just like 6 frames, and in the corner of that room was a dissected dog, which I actually thought was alive.
On the next room, there are bigger frames but with pictures, of ladies doing ballet; and there are 2 flat screens with different pictures also with ladies doing ballet. And at the end of the room there is a big picture of a lot of people in the beach.
There is another room which has like tables with dog leashes, but the tables are really small, I didn’t get the point of having that room with that.
Then, you go to the second floor and you find a room with something related to sound and 2 paintings about it. There is a projector which shows the movement of sound.
At the end of the museum there is a room with little frames all symmetric, with numbers and letters, all with different colors.
I, liked the museum, is really clean and is interesting, but I think it needs more things, you could see it in like 20 minutes, and when we saw it, nobody explain anything to us, so we didn’t see the point in lots of exhibits, but if they add more stuff I think it would be really interesting.

Transportation in Mexico

There are a lot of ways to move around in Mexico. There’s the bus which is the cheapest way to travel, the train system that still offers transportation is the Chihuahua Pacific Railway, the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico at the Central Railway Station, the airplanes and ports in different cities.

How many ports there are in Mexico?
There are 97 ports in Mexico. The most important ones are: Ensenada, Guaymas, Topolobampo, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Salina Cruz, Puerto Chiapas, Coatzacoalcos, Dos Bocas, Progreso, Veracruz, Tuxpan, Tampico and Altamira, having Tampico, Veracruz, Guaymas, Mazatlan and Manzanillo as the 5 largest ports.

The cruise ports are in Acapulco, Cozumel, Ensenada, Ixtapa, Los Cabos, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta.

Veracruz is an important port for general cargo, as Tampico’s port, which handles petroleum and its products.

How many airports are in Mexico?
There are a lot of airports in Mexico, 38 are domestic and 44 are international, like Mexico City Benito Juarez International Airport, the Puerto Vallarta Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport, one of the busiest airports is Cancun International Airport, and Monterrey’s, Guadalajara’s and Merida’s airport.

Exams' week

I think that exams’ week is a really stressful week, because we have to study, we have to make projects and some teachers agree to receive some late homework. So, obviously since you wake up, you are all stress out because the exam and because you went to sleep late doing homework, and is hard to get up at 7 in the morning, haha I’m just kidding!

Even that you are supposed to know what you have to study, there are some nice teachers that point out what we need to study or they accept to give us a review so is easier for us.

One good thing about exams though, is that we get out earlier from the classes or they agree to let us study, so the classes are not heavy.

After doing the exams, when we ask them to give us the grades, some teachers reveal that we didn’t do well in the exam, so we have to hang around just waiting for them to give them to us.

Is really relaxing once you are done with all the exams, homework and projects that you were ask to, besides all the teachers insist on doing their project the best, but is really hard to make all the projects with the same effort. The first project is the one you spend more time on, but in the last ones, you just want to get it done.

I don’t see the point on doing exams, obviously is for us to show the teachers if we learn, but we study one day before or even 10 minutes before, so there´s no point on doing them, maybe the surprise exams work, but I obviously prefer this ones, with the other ones, the majority wouldn’t pass from 1^st semester, so enjoy your stressful week, it could be worst!

Places to visit in San Luis Potosi...

There are a lot of places you could visit at San Luis Potosi, whether you are from here or from somewhere else.


Its funny how you know more about other places' culture and its really difficult to talk about yours... OK is not funny!


To learn a little about San Luis Im going to give you a brief explanation about each place you wouldnt like to miss visiting. Some of them are its churches and cathedral, museums, plazas, parks, among others.


To begin, Im going to talk to you about the museums. There are different types of museum, obviously, because each of them exhibit different things. In San Luis there is this museum which shows a collection of different mexican masks, each of them with its history or showing a little bit about the traditions. This museum its called "Museo de la Mascara".





Other important places are the plazas, like Plaza de Armas, where we could find the Palacio Municipal and the Cathedral, which has beautiful vitrals, and apostols images.


This plaza is the most visited place in the city.


Another plaza is the Plaza del Carmen, its known as the most beautiful plaza. We could find the Teatro de la Paz and Museo Nacional de la Mascara.

About the parks, there is the Tangamanga park, where people go to do some activities like play tennis, ride a double bike, go see the ducks, jog, go to the Teatro Carlos Amador, and there take place american football or soccer games.

This are just some places and activities you could do in San Luis Potosi. The Huasteca count with activities related to ecoturism, but Ill talk to you about it later...

About SLP....

San Luis Potosi is one of the 32 states from Mexico and it is divided into 58 municipies divided in 4 geographic regions: Huasteca, Altiplano, Media and Centre.
It is a state with a lot of culture, heritage and history.
The typical food here are the enchiladas potosinas, really good accompanied with beans and guacamole.
There are a lot of places to visit, I will talk to you about the ones I like the most...

Recomendations

In San Luis there are a lot of things to do, you could really enjoy a visit to some museums like Museo de la Mascara, for some cultural learning.

This museum its located downtown in front of Teatro de la Paz, in an old building from the XIX century. It is a really pretty museum. Its considered one of the best ones of the country.

It has over 1200 masks in its collection and in the 2nd floor you could see how was the house from that century organized, and you could learn how they lived, what did they like and what were their activities.

Another museum is Federico Silva, its a sculptures museum, it has a lot of rooms, 6 are permanent rooms and 2 temporal rooms which are always changing the scultures.

They are great museums, you would learn a lot just taking a peak. Dont miss the oportunity to see them.

Recipies

Here is another mexican recipe. It is like a sweet bread, really delicious. People from all ages enjoy it always.


Garibaldis

• 2 cups of butter


• 1 1/4 cup of sugar


• 5 eggs


• 4 cups of flour


• 1 ts of baking powder


• 2/3 cup of whipped cream


• 1 cup of apricot jam


• 2 cups of white rooks

1. You will make the butter softer with the sugar until its pale and light. You wil add the eggs, one by one.


2. You will sift flour with the baking powder and wrap it with the butter mix. You dont have to work it a lot, just until it is all together.


3. You will spread the mixture on the molds and bake for 15 min. or until they are baked at 180ºC.


4. Then, you will leave them to cool down and varnish with a brush with the apricot jam and spread the rooks on top.