Almost a week here

I´m here almost a week. It seems like the the time is moving slowly, but I guess I it´s Thursday already. Yesterday we went to Cholula, which is a church on top of a pyramid. It´s the biggest pyramid (by the size of the base) in the world. On the way, we visited two other churches in in small towns. The baroque Mexican architecture is something else alltogether. It´s ornate and then some, with elaborate plaster covered in gold and swirling around and around the columns. I'll look the word up for it and post it. It´s May, so the churches are full of flowers for Mary (Yay!) and smell terrific. There are all kinds of saints everywhere, because the Spanish thought they could get the indigenous people to abandon their polytheistic ways by introducing them to saints. And the saints have clothes on. Imagine St. Sebastian in a skirt!
As you can imagine, the statues are all really gory, especially Jesus. In one church we saw a guy gilding a picture frame, which was really interesting to watch. I´d never seen it done.
This morning our class went out for tamales for breakfast. I´d never had a real one, and it was delicious. Here the restaurants are one of a kind, like just tamales or just tortas (sandwiches). You can´t get anything you want to drink, either. We tried atole, which is a drink of corn and chocolate. Interesting.