Long Time No Blog....

but I´m still here!

So it has been a while my friends and life has picked up its pace. I feel like we, extranjero teachers, are all starting to feel the reality that we have just 2 months left and are feeling a big mix of releif- that we soon get a break, anxiety-that our days are numbered in Mexico, and sadness - that a big goodbye is looming ahead. So we keep living it up in Mexico and eating tacos and traveling. So lets see I left you with a big detailed blog of half my trip with my parents but Ill just brief you on the rest of my spring break. Puerto Vallarta was great, it was wonderful just to get to hang out with my rents and hard to say good bye at the Mexico City airport when the left. Not too long after they left I traveled back to the airport to fly out to good ol USA and visit Jamye in California. I love Jame and Nate and the fantastic four days I got to spend with them. Jame and I visited San Diego Zoo, Newport Beach, and we watched the sunset at Laguna one night. So I had a relaxing weekend before coming back to school and starting up again. And the last month seems to have flown by. And Im having a real hard time remembering what Ive been up to! Hmm, oh well the other weekend Stu, Nate, Roxanne, and I bought tickets to a Norteña music concert. Los Tigres del Norte, one of the most famous groups of that genre, were coming to Pachuca and we knew a long time ago that we had to go. Well norteña music is like bandera and ranchera music in that it is true Mexican music and if you pass any Mexican in his truck in southern California or Texas it is exactly what youd hear. It is Mexican country music. It always has a repetitive bass beat. It always involves an accordian. And it is extremely unique. We find it funny. So we went to buy these tickets at the fairgrounds at 7 pm out of the back window of a bus and were told that the Tigres didnt even come out till midnight. So we left and came back a little after 12 and entered the wave of cowboy hats and boots but the Tigres still didnt come on till 1230! Apparently they played until the early hours of the morning but we didnt stay that long. Everyone was dancing and we danced a little and gave a little Mexican cry now and then and tried to stay awake. It was fun.
So then my 23rd birthday crept up on me last week. My coworkers made it real special and bought me a cake that I shared with my kids and they sang me Happy Birthday and presented me with a beautiful birthday banner with all their handprints and names. And then I got lots of cakey kisses. My 2 adult classes teamed up too and after school threw a party for me and brought cake and food and it was so nice. Then after school I came home to a beautiful flower arrangement from my parents and Nen and Stu bought me gifts too. Stu took me out to eat at our favorite Argentinian restaurant and I ate a steak with A1 sauce (I love that they call it Ah-Uno). It was a great birthday. And last night we kept celebrating by going out to Sushi Bol and eating sushi and going bowling. Im happy to say I broke 100.
So I havent made any big trips since spring break but this weekend 10 of us took a fun trip to a mountain lodge near the state park outside Pachuca and spent the night there cooking hot dogs and marshmellows and listening to people play guitar. In the morning Stu, Chrystian, and I hiked some behind the lodge to this lookout point that was really high up and real cool.
Oh and big news, Stu has a kitten. He found Quique cold and crying in the streets and had to take her in. Shes only like 7 weeks old and shes a beautiful white gray Siamese kitty. Shes a real people lover and a talker and she follows Stu around and curls up on his lap. Shes so cute. Funny thing is he gave her a boys name before he found out for sure she was a girl. Quique is a nickname for Enrique, haha.
So this week is a short one, just 3 days and we get a long Cinco de Mayo weekend. This time Im finally making it to Veracruz and a beach or two and well be back Monday night. Cant wait.
Hope you all are doing great and enjoying some spring weather...Ill send some sunshine....