Field Trip

Mexico City has the 3rd largest pyramid in the world. (#1 is in Egypt, and #2 is Chichen Itza - which we visited in September.) The first time I climbed the pyramids - sun and moon - not long after we arrived in Mexico over a year ago. It is an amazing place to visit, and very fun for tourists. Most of our guests have been, and if you're coming to visit us, we'll take you, too!


3D Model of the ancient city of Teotihuacan
The Pyramid of the Sun is the large one in the front right of the photo. The road between that pyramid and the Pyramid of the Moon (in the back left of the picture) is called the street of the dead. Tourists can climb the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and walk the Street of the Dead. Tourists can also climb other ruins along the road and investigate some of the underground ruins in certain areas.

Last Friday, the entire school went to the pyramids together.

We waited for 30 minutes for one group of latecomers, stuffed 55 kids, 10 teachers, and 3 parents onto two buses, drove 2 hours to a pyramid site that 98% of our kids had been to before, waited 20 minutes to enter the park, and then found out that student groups are not allowed to climb the pyramids because someone in our school (whom was never identified) supposedly filled out an "I promise that my students won't climb on the pyramids bc they might damage the artifacts or fall to their death" form with the Mexican government. We then spent the next 90 minutes walking around the pyramid site and encouraging the high schoolers to take off their school IDs, separate from their teachers, and try to climb up the pyramids without being caught and then dragging them away from souveneir shopping long enough to eat lunch. Eventually, we ate our sack lunches on concrete picnic tables, ambled through a museum with no concrete dates or details about the pyramids, and then spent 2 more hours on the bus, only to arrive at school 45 minutes late.

High School Students standing in front of the pyramid of the Sun (many of them did climb it later, but we couldn't go up together)


5th & 6th grade class on top of a platform next to the pyramid