Mexico Month II

IF WE WERE HAVING COFFEE ...

One liner: Are you a parking ticket? Because you have fine written all over you ;-)

Nadia and Edgar, the English department secretaries

If we were chatting over coffee, I'd be telling you how much I've missed you and how grateful I am to have you in my life. I'd tell you that at this very moment, I'm eating banana pancakes with nutella, peanut butter, AND maple syrup because I couldn't choose just one. I'd tell you that I was a total blogger slacker this week and hence, my weekly post is four days later than usual. I'll try to make up for it by being sentimental ... 

A scorpion in the teacher's lounge!!! 

If we were having coffee, we'd probably have some small talk. This week was busy and productive. Working six days a week is exhausting, but rewarding. I'm not ashamed to say that I'm learning English by teaching it. I've admittedly taught a few lessons incorrectly and have had to go back and re-teach them. I'm almost certain that it will be that corrected lesson on auxiliary verbs that will now be solidified in my brain forever.  

Volkswagons (the old school ones) are EVERYWHERE here!
I don't know about you, but I totally prefer the multi-toned
look.

If we were having coffee, I'd tell you that I've stopped counting the weeks and now only know that it's October, month two of my journey in Mexico. I'm taking one day at a time and am learning more Spanish every day, though I'm not really comfortable speaking it yet. I would tell you that I'm happy, that my life is very full, and that I feel a completeness in how I'm living. I hope that everyone gets to feel something like this at least once in their life because it's pretty dang awesome!   

If we were having coffee, we would also be eating these: http://joythebaker.com/2012/10/chocolate-cream-filled-vanilla-sugar-doughnuts/#more-9814. I would be making them right now, but I think Mexicans might have an aversion to yeast. The pastries, pizza dough, and bread seem to all be made without yeast or baking soda which makes for a very dense (or very thin) bread experience. Not bad, just different. Anyway, I can't find yeast anywhere so I'll just have to wait until I'm home at Christmas so satisfy my homemade donut craving. The banana pancakes will do for now! 

The newest addition to the Petrucci/Cuchetti/Burns
household!! Our little conejo that Carlie bought
for $45 pesos last week. Love him!

If we were having coffee, I'd tell you that aside from the cool scorpion in the picture above, I also saw an iguana swimming across the river behind our apartment complex! Exciting stuff. I'd tell you that my tolerance for spicy food is slowly increasing and that Valentina hot sauce is the only way to go. If we were having coffee, I'd listen as you told me corny jokes, and all about your week. 

"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and place because you'll never be this way ever again." - Unknown