Today we met our intercambios or language exchange partners. They are Mexican students studying english at the university. We'll be getting together with them every school day after classes to spend an hour practicing our spanish and helping them with their english. They seem very nice and showed us around the zocalo or main plaza this afternoon. The buildings that surround the zocalo appear to be very old and of the colonial style, built with massive hand-hewn stones that seem to have a green tinge to them. There is a cathedral and opposite it on the other side of the zocalo is the municipal building with a long and deep arcade fronted with massively large arches. The zocalo seems to be the most shaded area of the city. It's much cooler there and there were many people sitting around chatting on benches, vending, shopping, sitting at cafes and restaurants that front the square. There were not many tourists however. In general we haven't seem many tourists as far as we can tell, which is surprising. Maybe they're all at the beach... ~ Shane
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