This is hole in the wall. HaHa...but , it really is.  During one of the Mexican Revolutions, an Austrian royal, Maxmillian, had been sent by Spain to be the Ruler of Mexico and the Mexicans decided enough was enough.  He was being held  as a prisoner in the convent that is behind this wall so the  anti colonists attacked the convent to get him out.  They did and the eventually killed him and 3 or 4 of his compatriots.  His remains have been returned to Austria....happily.   H  His wife was Spanish royalty or something like that...you know those royals marry each other.

If you expand this photo you'll see that it's a pinata shop....lots of pinatas.

This is a description of the fountain below.   This is one of the fountains in the city fed by water that was sent up to the convent by the acqueduct I've marveled over in earlier posts.  On the photo of the fountain, you can see on the ledge on the front where people dragged their buckets out with fresh water.  Its fenced in now but just to protect it. 

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I walk by this fellow's shop  where I have seen him doing a lot of leather repair on saddles etc. but he was doing this in the street, saddle soaping.   I asked him where I could get a chamois and we had a nice chat.  He said my Spanish was good....I think he was sort of shocked.

This is a picture of the place where we have most of our lectures...classes.  The man standing at back is one of our doctors, Mariano, who was also my doctor when I was in Nicaragua. 

This is Paty....short for Patricia...she dressed for our festival day a few weeks ago...and is a lovely person and such a hard worker.

This is Lili, one of our language and culture facilitators.  She is a riot..married to a Brit and full of energy.

These are some of the staff..Paty in the middle, Ana is Mexican and has served all over the world with various relief NGOs.  She says it was so hard to do emotionally and is taking a break with PC. The guy is Kevin and is the training manager..former PC Volunteer in Guatamala, lives here now with his wife and child. He brings his daughter to a preschool near the PC office on an electric bike each morning.

Just a shot of 4 of us waiting at the Immigration office waiting for our Temporary Resident Card.....not Tourist Visa....a bit different.  It was a long bureaucratic process as is opening a bank account.  Very very careful that our signatures match our signatures on our Passports.

This is a display at the Aeronautical Univ. where we've been doing some teaching the past few days...they do it all there...training mechanics, pilots, flight attendants, etc.  and have teams from a lot of countries coming and going.  I'm not sure what all of them do but I know France has a big presence.