Mexico, Briefly

It´s hard to update this blog...between getting sick and not having great internet access I am kind of failing at keeping ya´ll in the loop. But I stayed home from the village today due to a very sick stomache, so I have a minute to update with a few brief highlights:

• Helping in an adorable kindergarten class
• Learning that kindergarten kids don´t speak Spanish. Tzotzil only. Communicating is hard.
• Scrubbing walls in the school to prep for painting. I´m going to be so ripped.
• Trying (and failing) to mix cement by hand. Maybe I´m not as ripped as I thought.
• Watching a man sweep his grass with a broom.
• Going to a catholic-pagan cathedral filled with thousands of candles (it was the hottest place I´ve ever been) and people performing sacrifices and rituals in hopes of curing illnesses
• Eating the most horrendously disgusting boiled plantains and sour cheese for lunch. (Maybe that´s what made me sick?)
• Getting yelled at by a man who said the last thing Mexico needs is more religious missionaries. He was a little mislead on what we were doing here...it´s not religious at all.
• Trying to get rid of the drunks who stumble through the schoolyard daily
• Nancy mixing up the words ¨cabra¨ and ¨cabron¨
• Eating hundreds of tortillas
• Watching our bus driver masterfully maneuver our massive bus through the tiny Mexican streets
• Showering in a nasty community shower with stalls that are much too short for me.
• Getting awesome chaco tan lines on my feet
• Finding a frog outside of the shower and scaring a little girl and her madre half to death.
• Enjoying days without insane rainstorms so we can get lots of construction done
• Getting hugs and kisses from tiny Mexican children
• Watching a soccer team of 2 year olds practice. I cried it was so cute.