My Not-So-Typical Days in Cuernavaca

School Schedule

6:30am We gracefully awaken. It's not hot yet, so we are happy :)

7:07am Mama Irene comes upstairs and says that breakfast is ready

7:10am We enjoy a spanish breakfast. We have had pancakes, omeletes with potatoes, french toast, and cereal (FRUIT LOOPS!!!!!!) and other days quesadillas with fruit and JUGO DE NARANJA. You guys think our orange juice is good? The stuff we drink is freshly squeezed every morning and absolutely wonderful!

7:45am We start walking to the school. It's a good 15 minute walk. On the way, we are surrounded by a wave of kindergartners running to their schools. For my current/future special ed teachers....there is a little boy who has down syndrome and is SUPER CUTE that we always pass by. This morning he said Hola, Como estas? to me and it was precious.

8:00am...ish School starts.
We have grammer class from 8 until 10 with our professor, Cesar. He is HILLARIOUS. We have 3 people in our class.....which is great...except you can't hide....which is not so fun, but you get to pinpoint your problems.... the many grammer problems that everybody has, but generally ignores.... We did pronouns for 2 hours and then por/para (two different words meaning for) for another hour and we got 78 sentences to practice it. It's intense, but it is SO worth it. I discovered how much I didn't know, but also how much I DO know and how much I have learned in just 5 days.

After grammer we have a break and then conversation class. It's an hour of just speaking the language and listening to Cesar's funny stories. Our class is 70% comedy sketch, and 30% .... other? ha but we have the best conversations!

Then after a short break we have either a workshop or a lecture to go to.

2:20pm - We walk 15 minutes back home and have COMIDA!!!!!!!
Comida is our equivalent of dinner. It is the main meal of the day and SOOOO yummy. Our Mama spends all morning cooking. We have had REAL enchiladas, chiles rellenos, tostadas, spaghetti (spanish style of course), different kinds of chicken, fresh veggies, rice, rice, and more rice, and salsa that's basically straight up jalepenos. We spend about an hour or two eating and talking with the family. It's always good conversation, and then after a short siesta (and its HOT by now...no A/C. We are very spoiled in America), we head back to the school.

At 4:30 we have either a dance class and afterwards a conversation hour with the students studying english, or a spanish movie.

Then we either go out to the Plaza for fun, over to someone's house to swim and study, or home to our families. They don't really have supper here. Cenar is a light supper or snack around 8. Tonight I had a banana and a tortilla!

On Saturdays we have excursions and this weekend we are going to Tepoztlan I do believe (climbing a mountain and seeing some pyramids)

We have something incredible planned every Saturday and optional ones every sunday.


And then if there is time... we sleep.

I am having so much fun here! I'll put up more pictures as soon as I can!