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Festival de las Flores in Antigua

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Every time I try to write about Antigua, the word beautiful pops up way too often. In aiming for simplicity, beautiful is truly a word to describe the town, and the past weekend, it was made even more beautiful with a flower festival. We walked out early on Saturday morning, but most establishments were still in the process of setting up their decorations. It was still quite nice to get a glimpse of what it would be like. Aside from private businesses decorating their facades, the municipal government also decorated some public spaces like their fountains.  We went a bit out of town for brunch, and when we walked back into town after, the streets were packed! We managed to see some beautiful displays, but didn't have the space to take photos. The next day, we headed out again in the early morning. A lot of places had taken down their decorations for the night, but we saw some that were still out, and had a more relaxing stroll taking pictures. Forever charmin
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End of the School Year

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Just like that, another school year has come and gone. The kids have been on vacation since mid-October, while us teachers and staff have just a few more days left of work. We spent the extra month in trainings and workshops, and preparing for the next school year.  with some of my girls It's been a great first year for me at this new school. The start of the school year was a rough adjustment period, but I gradually got used to the work and the environment. The highlight of the year though was definitely my students. I got to work with such a great and sweet group of kids, and I will miss them when they move up to fourth grade next year, as I'll be staying to teach third. For our last big project of the year, we worked on a PBL (Project Based Learning) that consisted of the students coming up with and implementing solutions to a problem we posed, which was how to get the students to speak more English amongst themselves during English class. My kids came up with a
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Día de Muertos in Mexico City

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One of the most famous things associated with Mexico is Día de Muertos , and this year, I got to join in on the festivities. My mom had been planning a trip almost a year ago, and for this 2019, November 1st fell on a Friday which I knew I would have the day off from work, so I decided to go too. I brought Chris along, and we bought our tickets way back in February on a sale, so the trip was sitting on the back of our minds for a long time. The days were finally approaching and we got excited because 1) we love Mexican food (this would be our 3rd trip to Mexico together), and 2) Chris loves dressing up in costume. On Thursday we took an afternoon flight (I had an unexpected day off from a moved holiday, while Chris went straight from work to the airport), and landed in Mexico City at around 5pm. After clearing immigration, and sitting in rush hour traffic for almost an hour, we got to our Airbnb, freshened up, then went to meet my mom and friends for dinner. We were staying at
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