Ohhhhhh Mexico

This is the week Dad (hopefully) comes to visit! I am so excited!!!
We only have 3 weeks more of classes, one week of presentations, and then a few days after before I come home! I am still super happy here, but also starting to get very excited about coming home, seeing everyone I have missed so much, and celebrating Christmas in VT!

Today I had no class at UNILA...it's some Mexican holiday. And we were supposed to have class with Andres at 12:30, but he never showed, so we all left at 1:30 and now I'm home waiting for la comida at 3. Tonight at 5, we have our first Mexican film class, and we're watching "Los Olvidados", which is apparently about some troubled youth living in a barrio of Mexico City. It should be pretty depressing, but hopefully still interesting. Tomorrow we have literature class, Goyo's class, and I go to UNILA for my class. This past weekend I did some interview with a bunch of my students to get started on the final project. We have to write a 20 page paper about our projects, so I'm getting more information about my students and how they feel about English. It was really interesting, and fun to chat with them about other stuff too. I think it was fun for them to speak with me in Spanish, because they saw my weaknesses, just like I see theirs with English everyday in class.

This weekend was a blast; Friday a bunch of us went out to a bar called Resa-K (resaca means hung-over in Spanish). We ran into Justin's sister and some other friends there. The music was good and we danced for a long time. Saturday night Leah's family was having a graduation party for her sister and they invited all of us to come. It was great; food, dancing, socializing. She has some really great siblings and cousins that we have all gotten to be good friends with. Her host dad is so cool; he is a very-powerful socialist politician, and when you talk to him, it's hard not to feel intimidated. But he's really interesting. Yesterday morning we got up early to go to Puebla, which is 2 hours northeast of Cuautla. We all went together via bus, and when we got there, divided up to explore the city for the afternoon. I walked around with Hilary, Isana, and Justin, like normal, and we visited some churches, a museum, and, of course, the market. Justin and I ate lunch together and had to try the mole poblano that Puebla is famous for. It was pretty good, but I still prefer the mole in Oaxaca. I really hope they have mole at La Mexicana in Richmond, because I will miss it a lot when I leave. We all slept on the bus ride home, especially because we were still tired from dancing at Leah's the night before. When I got home last night, my mom and I chatted a bit and then when to pick my sister up at work.

Next week, we have Thanksgiving to look forward to! It should be really fun...we're all going to cook something and then meet at Casa Sol to eat together. I can't wait!