Thanksgiving....Dia de los gracias
This is the second time today I have tried on this....the first posting disasppeared much to my frustartion, entonces this will be a shorter entry....
We had our next to last day of spanish school today...the school is being decorated both for the US students (garlands and plastic fruit and beads) and for the spanish students (nacimento--manger scene)...the later is much more interesting..
Since I last wrote we went to Queretero on the bus on the weekend....that is a town , very historical (Maximillan) was executed there before a firing squad...and the town has a beautiful aquaduct very old that is still in use. Maybe one of the most memorable parts of our day was the return bus home....it was a second class bus, very crowded, many stops and hot. We entered the bus and asked the driver if we could sit on the front seat...I proceeded to speak some and pantomime some of how I got motion sick and could vomit --acting this part out for more dramatic effect. No deal.....he said the front seat was for ninos....come to find out his ninos. His wife, mother-in-law, and 3 ninos climbed onto the bus. Ninos were probably 9-7-5 yrs. The women took the seats and the children: the 9 yr. son lay down on the dashboard, the 7 yr. old son sat on a stool by his dad and helped him shift gears, the 5 yr. girl played on the entry steps to the bus. We held our breath that the driver would not have to slam on his breaks, much less have an accident. This does not seem atypical of la vida here....less notice given to safety , especially in cars. On the other hand, I didn´t vomit, but Kristen almost did....nice to get our feet on solid ground...
Our Thanksgiving will be with a couple in our school from Oregon....may quesodillas, or fajitas followed by a wild game of Spanish scrabble...those rr, ll, ñ are something else to work with...
Tomorrow night we are taking the Lopez-Flores family out...this is the family I lived with when I studied Spanish here years ago.....a lovely family...and even more I can understand their Spanish.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.....maybe the next posting will be from Cuba after our arrival there on Monday....
Hasta luego,
karen