I don’t really know what day I left on so I am just going to start with the last thing I remember and that was Friday. Melissa decided that she was going to make some carne asada so we invited Tatan and Caleb over to join in on our feast. Before I talk about our awesome fiesta I have to share the awesome story that made this fiesta happen. So we had to get the meat for the carne asada so we went to the grocery store to get all our supplies. The hard part is that the meat is in kilos and of course America has it in pounds so we had to figure that out. Me and Elizabeth just let Melissa figure it out considering she is the brains for the both of us. We went up to the meat counter and told him we needed three kilos of carne asada. He just kind of stared at us then told us to follow him because he didn’t understand. We told him what we needed in Spanish so we weren’t really sure why he needed help translating. He took us to this ten year old boy in the store and we all just died laughing. We told him what we needed in English and the boy said the exact same thing we said to him earlier. We went back to the meat counter and he started pulling out the meat. the thing was he didn’t stop pulling out the meat he just kept putting more and more in the bad. He kept looking at us as if he was waiting for us to tell him to stop or something but we just said yeah three kilos. By the time he was finished pulling out all the meat we had a huge bag full. Melissa was still confident and said that it shrinks so it should still be right. We got the rest of our stuff and headed out. We got home and I still was in shock at how much meat we got. Me and Elizabeth went to work while Melissa prepared our fabulous dinner (or so we thought). A little later Melissa came over to the orphanage and her face was super red. She was making the salsa and in the process she got some pepper on her face and it was burning it super bad. I went back to the house with her to A. look for the blender I thought we had and B. try and find what was burning her face. We got back to the house and I tried everything and nothing was spicy and for me that’s a big deal haha so we still don’t know what caused her face to burn so bad. So after work Elizabeth and I came home to a whole bunch of meat … to me I was thinking well I guess it didn’t shrink as much as we thought it would. Then Melissa decided to share with us that she got our conversion wrong from kilos to pounds, instead of getting one pound of meat like we thought we needed we got six pounds lol just so you know that is a lot of meat. We set up a table and chairs outside and we were ready for our fiesta. Tatan and Caleb showed up late of course haha its Mexico but they weren’t too bad and they brought Tatan’s cousin who I had never met before. He didn’t know English so of course he didn’t understand half of what we were saying during dinner because we were speaking spanglish. It looked like he was having a good time though. After dinner Tatan invited us to go to the big championship soccer game. His brothers team was in the final game so he wanted to go to that. we had nothing else to do and getting out of the house is always a plus so we grabbed our stuff and left. We got to the game and it was absolutely packed haha. I was always use to having few fans at my games but this was the championship so everyone wanted to be there for it. it was an absolute blast and I am so glad I got to experience the culture even more. After the game everyone was celebrating everywhere, let me tell you el Porvenir was a very hopin place that night. We were walking back to our house with Tatan and his cousin (who we called Primo because we couldn’t pronounce his name and primo means cousin and Spanish so we thought it was a pretty good fit) and Melissa was telling a really funny story so I thought primo would like to hear it to so I decided to translate the story to him … let me tell you it did not go over very well. I got halfway through the story and Primo looked so confused so I stopped and asked him if he understood and he said kind of then looked at me and said “wait why do I have a problem?” and then I realized that I mixed up the ending of my verbs and instead of saying she has a problem I told him he had a problem so then that totally screwed up the whole story. We all died laughing and now it’s the joke that I scared off primo because when we almost got back to the house he saw one of his friends and left us lol. There was a party right next to our house haha we were so tempted to go it sounded really fun but it would have been a tad bit awkward for the three of us so we just hung out with Tatan outside and went star tripping which is a very interesting game. All in all it was a pretty awesome night and it was great to get out of our little orphanage bubble.
Nothing to big has gone on at the orphanage. We have lost seven kids since I got here and have only gained one so that’s kind of a bummer. I feel like we have no kids now and it would have been so great to see new ones come in. the most interesting thing I can think of is I had to dig two year old Mario out of the toilet the other day lol. There is a bathroom outside and usually the door is closed but one of the older kids left it open. We didn’t notice that Mario was not in the yard so I went over to look by side of the house by the bathroom and there was Mario in the toilet lol. The best part was his head was soaking wet which meant he stuck his head in the toilet before jumping in! Other than that nothing really big to report.
Tuesday was the most amazing day of this entire trip. There were two things to that I really wanted to do while I was in Mexico this summer the first was climb a mountain and the second was ride a horse. Well last week Tatan took us to climb a mountain so I could check that off the list but I still had not gotten to ride a horse yet. Melissa has a horse and she loves them so she wanted to ride a horse too. We were talking about it to Tatan and he said that he could maybe find some horses for us. We didn’t really think it was going to happen so Tuesday on our day off we weren’t really expecting him to come over. Around 3 o clock we heard this really loud neigh come from outside. Me and Melissa just looked at each other and Melissa said wow our neighbors horse has gotten really loud. Then next thing we know there is a horse right outside our window. We both jumped up in absolute awe and started screaming. We opened the door and outside was Tatan, his amigo and two horses … we were so excited! We didn’t know his amigo and he didn’t introduce us to him either so it was kind of awkward but we didn’t really care. They told us to pick a horse so I picked Tatan’s since I knew him but then they asked who was better at riding and that was obviously Melissa so we had to switch horses since his amigo’s horse was better trained. We got on the horses and they guys jumped on back and we were off. We passed the orphanage and all the kids went crazy and Tia Raquel got her video camera out and started taping us it was awesome. we rode to the other side of town where the soccer fields are and went through a gate and we were off on our adventure. it was seriously the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We got on this sandy area and Tatan asked me if I was ok to run with the horse. I was a little freaked out but I was up for trying anything but amigo wasn’t really up for it so we switched and Tatan rode with me for that part. They way it works for double riding is one person rides on the saddle then the second person rides behind the saddle on the butt so I didn’t know how it would work when it came time for running because when I was riding with amigo he was literally sitting on his hands the whole time, I don’t know how he didn’t fall off. So I ran with the horse and it was the coolest thing ever and I didn’t even fall off and neither did Tatan so that was a plus too haha. we made it to the top of the hill/mountain and it was gorgeous. The guys jumped off and started climbing the rocks. I got a little nervous because they left me on a horse and were telling me to ride down a hill by myself haha but I did it and nothing went wrong. On our ride back While Tatan and Melissa were busy speaking in English I was stuck with amigo who only spoke Spanish. Considering my last experience with one of Tatan’s friends I wasn’t really in the social Spanish mood but I felt like I needed to say something haha. I asked all the questions I could with my little Spanish knowledge and I got to know him a little bit but it was still awkward haha. I think amigo just felt left out because he didn’t really understand what was being said most of the time. He also told me earlier that he had been working all day so maybe he was just tired … who knows.
So yeah I have had the most amazing experience here and I don’t really want to leave but school is coming around the corner and I guess I should get ready for that. tomorrow is my last day so I cant even believe it I feel like I just got here!
