Mexico, querido, lindo.

The thing about travel is that I'd like to go everywhere. That includes Brazil living in the Amazon forest with the Tupi or Yanomamo tribes, then there's Bolivia and Peru with the Aymara or Quechua peoples then Costa Rica, Venezuela and Chile.. Okay I'd like to visit pretty much all of Central and South America but lets get to the point, the truth is I plan on traveling to Mexico for a semester abroad. That means five months but if I had to travel by myself for six months I think the location would stay the same. For one I'm deeply connected to my culture and the most time I've spent with my family over there is a week if I could I would still like to live in the area of San Luis Potosi or perhaps the Yucatan. I've been a Mexica dancer (also known as Aztec dancers) for about three months and even before that I've taken any and every opportunity to immerse myself in the indigenous culture of my people.
I'd love to live with a Nahua tribe and learn dances directly from the elders themselves, I'd love to become fluent in Nahuatl but outside of the community itself I'd manage to get along fine since I am a fluent Spanish speaker and although my Nahuatl vocabulary is limited I think there'd be someone bound to speak Spanish within the tribe and hopefully I'd be able to pick up things faster. Considering that I'd want to live in a Nahua community I'd probably have to venture to areas such as Oaxaca, Puebla or Tlaxcala among many others. So of all that narrowing down I'd probably pick Tlaxcala which in Nahuatl means place of tortillas or bread made of maize. Even if my primary station was Tlaxcala I'd travel around and visit as many ruins as I possibly could within six months. I wouldn't limit myself to just Nahua populations either I'd love to visit Maya areas and get to personally know the similarities between the many indigenous groups that populate Mexico.
As for what I'd take to entertain me while I was there well, what's a book when you can experience the landscapes and sites of your ancestors?
If I felt homesick I'd visit my family in San Luis and great uncles and aunts that I haven't had the chance to meet in Cuernavaca. The only thing I'd absolutely have to take with me would be my journal because after all I am a fiction writer and I doubt there'd ever me a drought of inspiration. Aside from that I'd have another seperate journal where I could write down what I've managed to learn in terms of Nahua considering that their are different dialects according to what region your in apart from that my camera would be essential and a video camera. I'd say I'd bring my cat too but I wouldn't want to stress him out with the constant traveling across the states. In short it'd be a very personal but extremely educational voyage to learn as much as I can about various groups and I think I'd do fine in explaining all the things that would seem confusing since I'm already close to the culture. There would be, of course, some time to get used to all the differences especially because I plan on living a very Native lifestyle while there but in the end it would be not only extremely valuable but very much worth it.