I woke up early to get to the Museum of Anthropology, then waited in line for more than an hour. Upon entering, I immediately realized that the Museum of Anthropology was far too big for me to explore it in just one day; their collection includes pieces from pre-Colombian all across Mexico, covering thousands of years. I needed to leave for the airport by 3:30 and still wanted to see the Palace of Fine Arts, so I limited myself to the part of the museum dedicated to the Maya. I walked away from the museum with that overwhelming feeling you get when you realize that your estimate of how much you know about the world was a gross overestimate. Most of the history I’ve studied has focused on the past two centuries in North America, Europe, and Asia. There’s so much more to learn.
I left the Museum of Anthropology around 1, only to arrive at the Palace of Fine Arts and learn that it was closed; they just didn’t bother to update their website. Without enough time to drive back to the Museum of Anthropology (traffic was terrible and it was the opposite direction of the airport), I wandered around a bit, eventually coming across a Museum of Popular Arts which was open in a limited capacity. After this, I sat in the park for a while, and headed to the airport.
Mexico City airport is my least favorite airport. It’s clean and has lots of nice shops and stuff, but it’s incredibly confusing. Having had trouble navigating the airport on my initial journey to Chiapas, I arrived two hours before my flight today, even though I wasn’t checking a bag, just in case. Over the course of two hours, they gradual updated my departure gate, slowly shifting me from one waiting area to another, before finally assigning a gate five minutes before boarding started. I slept on the plan and arrived back in Chiapas without problems.
I took a bunch of photos today and yesterday; I’ll upload them later. I have classes to teach tomorrow and haven’t really planned that far ahead. I’m also really tired. It’s been a long weekend.
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