partial Sunday morning update

Good morning! There is nothing too big planed for today. In about half an hour I will head to church and then after church I will be attending a birthday party. The son of the family we live with, the Platas, had his birthday yesterday and so today we are having a fiesta de Gami. There was some serious food prep going on yesterday, so I think it is going to be really enjoyable. (2 different types of mole!)

After that I think Meredith and I are in total agreement on some plans just to take it easy and maybe watch a movie or read. This has been a really full week, really good, but exhausting.

On Wednesday we had English Club and then afterwards we went over to Peter’s apartment and had a Games and Taco night. There were games of Taboo, Apples to Apples, and Nerts going on. It is amazingly impressive to me that all 20 people or so from English Club were able to play Taboo and Apples to Apples in English. Jenga was also an option, but (surprise) no one decided to play. The game night provided a couple hours just to hang out and talk. It was very relaxing and I think provided the opportunity for people to really connect.

Game night also served a duel purpose of celebrating one of the student’s 21 birthday. After a few hours of games we went over to El Jardin (during a torrential downpour) and had tacos alambre and tacos al pastor, then we sang to Jacob (while he wore a ridiculous felt party hat which seems to be part of the CUR/ English Club birthday tradition) and had cake which one of the students, Eva, had made to celebrate his birthday. (delicious- iced with nutella!) Dinner was a really good time, good enough to distract the students from the Spain-Greece soccer match which was playing at the same time, and that is quite a feat!

For now I must go, but I’ll be back to tell you about Thursday (The Zocolo), Friday (crepes), and Saturday (Teotihuacan).