Fran's Expanding Life! -- Lots of Photos!

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.

Fran at Totonac ruins

Fran with a couple of classmates at an arboretum in Puebla

Fran and her class at the Totonac ruin in Puebla

Fran at a beautiful waterfall and swimming pool in the wilds of Puebla

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.

Fran & Friends at Salina Cruz

After the beach, they went to a fiesta in the town of Juchitan.

Fran dressed for the fiesta, second from right

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!)

Fran and Checo at their school. He just graduated.

Here is a photo Fran included to show you one of her classrooms:

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!

Fran at the ecological dormitory for students in Puebla

Fran in bamboo, Puebla

Hotel Cuetzalan, where the students stayed in Puebla

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!