Lovin' me some Elotes

playing in the front yard before going downtown for dinner.

chihuahua's getting some action from that hurricane over on the west coast.

storms are coming!

the cathedral downtown.

el centro.

dinner at Elotes Alex. probably my favorite restaurant here. all they serve is corn. in cups. with cream, butter, chile, lime, and finely grated cheese. amazing.

whitters and i enjoying are Elotes on the cob. she was chowin' down!


Well...tomorrow's Friday. And I would normally have no class. But tomorrow we're having a field trip to downtown to do a trolley tour in the morning. So I'll have to get up even earlier than usual, but it'll be well worth it to spend the morning downtown with Greg, the other 3 students, and our 2 teachers. It'll be really fun. Then at 11 I'm supposed to meet little Sara and a group of kids from her pre-school at a museum downtown. She single-handedly got permission from the principal of her school to let me go with them on the field trip, with this warning of course (in Spanish) "But you must remember, you have to talk very slow or else she won't understand you." She's 5 by the way. Tomorrow night I'm going with one of my teachers and her friends to a futbol game. My very first in Mexico. She's 25 and single. Greg tells me I should become friends with her and her other friends from her youth group (young adults). I think this is a good idea. Judit speaks no English. And I'm bankin' on the assumption that none of her friends do either. I've gotten to the point where I can communicate pretty easily with Judit, so I think I'll be alright.

Saturday will be a day full of shopping, with the open air market here in town in the morning (I'm really looking forward to buying some authentic Mexican stuff---by the way, I purchased my first series of Mexican paraphernalia today--a flag and a bracelet--for about 35 pesos.), and hitting up one of the big malls here with Jenny Beth and Yazmin in the afternoon. Yazmin has the cutest clothes. She's promised to take me to find some of my own.

On Sunday Jenny Beth, Tommy, Ben, Whitlee, Greg, Paloma and I are road tripping out to La Junta for the day. I'm really excited to get out into "real" Mexico. It's about 2 1/2 hours west of here up in the mountains...definitely a lot more rugged than posh Chihuahua. It should be really fun.

Busy weekend ahead! Keep a look out for more pictures! Thanks for your prayers, I'm getting more comfortable here!