Lo Normal

I realized the other day that I beyond the big events that I tell you about I´ve left out some of the day to day stuff. So to start, I don´t think I told you we wash our clothes in our patio. I just came home from school today, got out our buckets and filled them up in our two-sided sink. We´ve got a little patio strung with 4 clothes lines and we buy powder detergent and clothes softener and clean some of our own clothes. We dont clean allll of them by any means, just shirts and stuff that dont get real dirty. The other things we take every week in a bag down a couple blocks to a lavanderia where they wash and fold them nice and put them back in a bag smelling lovely and we can pick them up the next day. It usually costs about 6 bucks. So that´s why we try to wash some of our clothes.
What else...oh, I dont think I mentioned that I´ve been taking dance classes! Its something I do 2 or 3 times a week with my friend Rodney who really wanted to learn Salsa and other latin dances too. Turns out we do ALL kinds of dances, which is okay, and half the class is really stretching, abs, etc. So its actually a real workout. We have a lot of fun with it, we´d prefer if it were more dancing though, so we might look somewhere else. I walk to the studio, 30 minutes, and then I take a cab back.
Something real fun we´re all into is the Friday afternoon soccer games, all the other English speaking friends we´ve made are in on this well-organized unofficial league of four teams of ASP teachers and students and every week 3 teams play, one is off, and we play soccer on the fast field, an enclosed turf field with high nets and walls around it. Its so much fun. Its fun to play soccer again. I´m on the red team, and I just bought a great fake red España jersey at the market downtwon this weekend to wear when I play. My teacher teammates are Rob, Jamie, and Salvador. I dont know the students names yet but I do know that Orlando scored 3 of our 5 goals last weekend. The kids are good! of course.
Jenny and I found a panaderia that we like. Its a little bakery owned by a family and we ring a bell and they unlock the door and let us pick what we want and put it on a a tray and bring it to the counter. Its nice.
We go to the supermarket once every weekend. Mexico´s version of WalMart is Aurrera Bodega and its got all we need. We bring home our room temp milk in cartons and stock up on flan and tortillas and salsa. We buy our veggies there or at a market near where we live... just about everything we make has onions, garlic, and peppers in it. There is this fake juice that is a popular brand down here called BOING and we think its funny and we like it and it tastes like Tang.
I eat cereal or eggs or Jenny´s delicious breakfast burritos every morning; yogurt, a Special K bar, and a sandwich for lunch at 10.30 with the kids and then later Jenny and I come home starved everyday and eat anything we can or just make dinnner at 4:30.
Anyway, life is good in Pachuca, if I think of anything else I will let you know, if youve got any burning questions, pass em along.
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