Volunteering and exploring

There were three Cozumel firsts today!
I went to Playa Azul, swam up to a hotel, and volunteered at an English as Second Language (ESL) school. 

Playa Azul is a well recommended beach club. A few people said it's closer than Money Bar, the beach club I went to all last year.  So I checked it out today.  It's nice.  But it's not significantly closer than Money Bar and it's not as friendly for a long swim.

But I'm glad I went because it's fairly close to El Cozumeleno, the hotel I'll be staying at with Lorraine in February, which I checked out while I was in the "hood".  The cool thing is that I swam up to the hotel, from Playa Azul!   I kinda felt like James Bond.  Coming out of "nowhere" to stake out a place incognito!  It looks nice and some friendly Canadian guests had mostly very good things to say.  Yay!

This evening, I volunteered for the first time at the ESL school that Linda works at.  Barbara had a very big class and asked me and Linda to help out.  It went well, especially considering that she didn't give us much guidance.  Afterwards, I participated in an advanced class.  It was fun, interesting, and rewarding.  It'll also be nice to get to know some locals on a whole different level.

My dresses weren't ready.  The shop floor had lots of pieces of material with sequins on them.  Carnaval....

Pictures
Top - Puddles the cat.  He was very antisocial last year. He's much nicer this year.  Doesn't he look sad cause I'm not in "my chair" doing homework?
Middle - my favourite bicycle shop.  They adjusted my fender so it wouldn't rub on my tire anymore.
Bottom - A monument in the market, I'm assuming to the virgin of Guadalupe. She's very popular here.