So another week in Mexico is flying by!
Sara and I spent the day on Saturday in Tequila, Mexico. We were so hungry after the bus ride that we found aplace where we could eat hamburgers and french fries! [a nice little taste of home. :)] Afterwards we toured one of the tequila distilleries and that was cool thing. We ended up not having much time to just hang out, because we had to catch the bus back to Guadalajara to be home for "cena" at 8:00.
On Sunday we tried to get to ruins that are about an hour and a half away. After the longest, hottest bus tour of the city of Guadalajara, we realized it was a lost cause. We ended up back at the artisan market shopping! Not a bad day, in the end!
My birthday was last week,also, which made it very special. My teacher knew it was my birthday and so we had a party at school with brownies and special "birthday" things. When we got home, Sara had told our host mom it was my birthday. She had a cake for me with candles and a flower and everything! It was really lovely and made me really happy!
School is going pretty well. Next week we have a half day on Wednesday and we are celebrating children's day. This is a big event in Mexican schools so we are going to play and eat pizza til 12:00. Then, we send the kids home and we have a 5 day vacation for Cinco de Mayo.
School here has definitely been more of a challenege that I am used to, but it's been a great learning experience for me as a future classroom teacher. My students know a lot of English to be so young, but they are still learning vocabulary. I say things and then have to remind myself that I usually need to explain words in more detail. With the words "mow the lawn," for example, they don't know to be just to cut grass. It's interesting to see how I have to explain things in different ways and how much they are soaking up. I can't believe that two weeks from today I will be on my way back to North Carolina. These weeks have gone by very fast!