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Well, I've not posted in a good while, so I'm going to hit the highlights.

My friends came to Guanajuato!  Alice Harvey and Lindsey Gates, on their Wofford spring break (Ok Lindsey has already graduated, so she would kill me for saying that) came to visit Guanajuato.  Joining them in their arrival to Guanajuato was Vanessa Lauber, this year's presidential scholar.  We all enjoyed a few days together before the Lindsey and Alice went to the beach and Vanessa went to work once again on her project.  It was really nice to see some familiar faces for the first time in a few months.

During my spring break, I did a service project in Mesa Cuata with a handful of other students.  We taught young kids how to make recycled paper from scrap paper, picked up trash around their school, played a little soccer, wrote letters to their sister school in the United States, and on the last day took the kids to Guanajuato for a little treat.  Attached is a picture with my little friend Marisol when we went to a mine on that last day.  I think the camera surprised her.

Last week, the CIEE students and myself took a group trip to Zacatecas.  The city was really gorgeous and had some great ruins in the surrounding area.  CIEE took us to tour the facilities of large beverage producer named Modelo Group Inc.  I was quite impressed with Modelo Group Inc.  Their facility featured a zoo, several greenhouses growing young saplings to be planted in the surrounding area, and boasted an incredible amount of recycled waste, water which was in turn used to nourish the young trees they planted.  During the same weekend, I was informed I was the recipient of a grant that will send me to Germany next year.  I am terrifeid and excited all at once about this prospect, but I know that another Wofford student and one of my best friends, Claudia Winkler, will be in the Rheinland as well.  It is comforting knowing that even though my time as a Wofford student is ending, I am about to take another journey with a fellow grad and dear friend.  I am confident it will be a very special year, just as these last four have been.

A month from yesterday, I will be hoping on a plane bound for upstate South Carolina.  It's hard to believe that my time in Guanajuato, and as a Wofford student, is nearly to an end.  I have two days to catch up (and say goodbye) with my friends before graduating on Sunday, May 18th.  I wasn't there to try on a cap or gown to order for the ceremony, but my mom was kind enough to take care of that for me.  Hope it fits.

Vanessa Lauber will be returning from Oaxaca and her research at the end of next week.  We will have a couple of days to catch up before she herself hops on a Wofford bound plane.  I am sending my regards via Vanessa to everyone at convocation at the beginning of May.

I hope everyone is enjoying the remainder of their semester as I soak up the remainder of my time as a Wofford student in Guanajuato.

Saludos desde México,

John

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