Lucha Libre and Ziplines

Well I haven´t written in awhile and you are definitely due a story on Lucha Libre. I dont know how this crazy sport began but it is uniquely Mexican but resembles the States´ WWF. Storied characters come out to the wrestling ring in high laced up boots, tight pants, bare chests, and colorful masks. Its really hilarious. They toss each other around and throw each other down and do a lot of hand slapping but its all in fun and these guys are actually more athletic than I imagined because they do all those stunts and dont get hurt. It was pretty entertaining. I took videos and lots of pictures and found it funny how many people in the crowd were wearing a Lucha Libre mask as well. We went to see EL MISTICO who was the reason for the special fight night and he came out in the last fight in his white pants and mask and the crowd went wild. Good times. Made me laugh. And Stu got a great picture with a novice luchador. We bought El Mistico posters too. I was pretty shocked by the lack of security at the event though, in between fights little kids stormed the ring and it would always take a while to clear them out for the next fight.
Interesting.
Schools been going well, we´re doing letter Ss this week and that is just fantastic because we get to talk about Superman and Spiderman and snakes. I had my first open house ever on Monday and all my kids parents came to see our class. It went well. We have good parents. Also, got 2 new kids in 2 weeks and we have the smallest Kinder room! Ami is a sweetheart and always tells me I´m pretty - Eres muy bonita, Miss - and Diego was a trip yesterday, his first day, he screamed and cried for the first hour and a half. By the end though he was fine and happy and talking it up with his new friends. And theres a rumor today that we might get another student transferred from the other Kinder class. So that would be 18 kids! Yikes.
This weekend was good, we went to Pachucas season opening game and they beat Los Tecos 1-O. Good start. We really missed our Tuzos, its good to be back. Sunday Nate, a new teacher here from Idaho, Hilary, our favorite veteran from Toronto, Stu and I went to the National Park near Pachuca called El Chico. We had a great day, it was so nice to be among trees and go hiking. Its up in the mountains and their are these crazy rock cliffs that appear out of nowhere around the town. We hiked down the road behind the church to find the river, or Miracle River, so called, according to a local who we passed along the road, because couples used to go down to the river and make miracles, haha. It was a long walk down, lots of caves and some waterfalls and around a bend were some little shanty restaurants so we sat down and ate the local specialty, river trout. It was really tasty. As we were sitting there eating we realized that there was a zipline set up and people were zipping over our heads. Hilary was interested in doing it and I said Id do it with her. She´d never done a zipline before. So without much hesitation after we paid our bill the 2 girls in our group found the zipline guides and trekked up the side of the mountain to the launch point. I think the trek up and down and not the zipline itself were actually the most dangerous parts. Hilary and I were huffing and puffing by the time we got to the top and laughed out loud when we said to each other, dont we have to sign a waiver or something for this?? Nope, harness up and go. Hilary took a bit to get off but she loved it, I loved it too. The view was amazing but unfortunately I left my camera with Stu down below. Hes afraid of heights so he wasnt even close to climbing anything. It was a lot of fun though, I´m glad we did it.
I started up dance again this week, it was good to see everyone again, they were afraid Rod and I werent coming back! I´m probably going to Mexico this weekend to do some more sight seeing and buy Bob Dylan concert tickets.
Have a great day in the USA.