Camera suggestions!!

Hi!!
I was wondering if you could help me get a new camera. I got this cheap one and I want to get to the next level (still, not proffesional!!). I'd like to know about cameras with manual controls for the shooter and aperture, but without being have-to-sell-my-kidney expensive. Im still recovering from the frustration and anger, because I tried to get a used one at mx.deremate.com, which is something like ebay, but I was framed, I made a deposit of $330USD and the guy just disappeared.

Im a student, working part time (well, 1.5 hours a day!!), so I dont get that much money!! :( sad, sad and poor!!! :(

Thanx and happy coming holdays!!

Final exams!!

Its been more then a week since I posted anything, I was under a lot of stress. Have you had the kind of semester when you dont do pretty much anything until the last to weeks of it?? Man! Im exhausted!! But it finally finished! Just got to deliver some projects during the next 2 weeks, and that would be over... I hope!!

So, today I was invited to Tequisquiapan by one of my very best friends, Perla, who's originary from Chicago, but she's got a nice place there in Tequis just to relax...

She showed us aroud Tequisquiapan and I got some pictures, so without further adue, here they are!!

Tequisquiapan's train station, and one of Mexico's last to work. 

Bus-tram for a 360 view of Tequisquiapan. 

Yet, another view! 

Same church, different view. 

Teqisquiapan's Main Sq. 

Tequisquiapan's Main Church. 

Irapuato's Soccer players' Hall of fame 

What went wrong? All of them are OK except these two trees. 

Monument in Irapuato. 

One of the few times I go to mexico city and it wasnt sunny. 

Good morning!! Thats what I see everyday through my bedroom window.  

Hello kiddies!! 

Dreams in Technicholor. 

O'Brother, where art thou?? Ha ha... 

Palace of Fine Arts. Mexico City. 

The street of the dead from the top of the Sun's pyramid. 

Moon's pyramid. Teotihuacan. 

Dad, mom and my brother, halfway to the top of the Sun's pyramid.. 

Sun's pyramid. 

Moon's pyramid in Teotihuacan... and a guy here in the front. 

Yeah, right!! Go all the way up to Pachuca trough highway number ???!!! Damn!! 

Care for a trip?? 

Repetition exercise!!