Hi Friends,
Fran is just winding up the school year and beginning to think about how she will spend her summer. She recently went on a trip with her classmates to Puebla, where they visited a coffee plantation, an orchid farm, a native plant arboretum, and an indigenous agricultural project. They also visited a Totonac ruin that looked quite amazing.
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| Fran at Totonac ruins |
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| Fran with a couple of classmates at an arboretum in Puebla |
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| Fran and her class at the Totonac ruin in Puebla |
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| Fran at a beautiful waterfall and swimming pool in the wilds of Puebla |
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| Fran with a young soldier in the back of a camioneta in Puebla |
Immediately after her trip to Puebla, she was invited by some new friends on a pleasure excursion to El Istmo, where she saw a beach and an ocean for the first time in her life, at Salina Cruz. After a long, dry period of concentrating on her studies and being somewhat disillusioned with the male species, and to some extent the female species...she ran into this wonderful group of friends.
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| Fran & Friends at Salina Cruz |
After the beach, they went to a fiesta in the town of Juchitan.
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| Fran dressed for the fiesta, second from right |
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| Fran and some of her new friends. Checo is on the left. |
Then they went to her friend Checo's graduation from Fran's school. You can read between the lines here... Checo is a year ahead of her. Below is a photo of Checo with Fran at his graduation. He knows how to dance, and Fran has been taking classes, so she was ready! (THANK YOU SHEELA!)
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| Fran and Checo at their school. He just graduated. |
Here is a photo Fran included to show you one of her classrooms:
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| Fran must have taken this photo...because I don't see here here. |
Here are more photos. She has about 1,000, but we thought we'd spare you!
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| Fran at the ecological dormitory for students in Puebla |
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| Fran in bamboo, Puebla |
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| Hotel Cuetzalan, where the students stayed in Puebla |
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| Stonework at Totonac ruin |
Ok, that's all for now. We hope you enjoyed the photos!
This summer, Fran will be concentrating on English and if her school offers a class she needs for her degree, she will enroll. If not, she will take a much needed break, though she will continue to work for the dentist. And I suspects she'll be spending some pleasant hours with her new friend, Checo.
And to all of you who have donated to Fran's education, we send our gratitude and love!
