Our day today started with some grocery shopping and a very fast breakfast before we went to a meeting with Esmeralda’s dad on the other end of the city. Together with him, we visited a school for autistic children, in which we will paint a gigantic wall these next days.
We met the boss of the school, checked out the space and sat down in a cafe making a plan for the wall (ideas and necessary money) and also for our time here in Mexico. Traveling with 7 people is more than complicated regarding organization. Everything you do or plan to do takes twice as long as normal and is twice as tiring, but in the end we settled on a very vague plan for the next 3 weeks without going into too much detail.
Our plan for the rest of the day was to visit the Anthropological museum of Mexico, which we reached by an one hour metro ride at 2 pm. We had some quick food in front of the museum and entered.
It’s one of the biggest museums of the world and was very interesting and very well designed and informative. We didn’t have enough time to even visit one of the 22 rooms in a proper way. We learned about Mayas and Aztekas, watching impressive paintings, sculptures, copies of temples, models, stones and textiles. One would have to spend two entire days here to really get into anything but we enjoyed our visit.
As we wanted to get out, an intense rain shower started outside and we had to wait a little before moving on towards Esmeralda’s dad’s house and workshop. The traffic was too heavy to take a taxi so we walked.
He’s an artist, and the flat was a pretty cool artist’s flat. But what I liked most about the visit was that there was actual food that I could eat. We had fresh tuna, tortillas, salad, avocado and rice and I was actually full afterwards!
The plan had been not to get home too late to prepare tomorrow’s painting and sleep enough but of course it failed, like plans use to fail in Mexico. There was no more drawing or preparations so we will have to do everything on the go tomorrow when we start painting at 8 am.
