¡Hola a todos y buenas tardes! OMG! Today it rained....this is amazing to me since the weather has been absolutely perfect since I arrived. Today it is actually COLD...to where I need a jacket and a scarf! Oh well every good thing comes to an end now doesn't it? My mom told me that for some reason February is usually colder than January???? She said they call it "febrero loco" because the weather is crazy during February for some reason with really strong wind and cold temperatures. However I'm sure it won't last for long...hopefully it will be sunny and beautiful again tomorrow!
I haven't really done much lately just been concentrating on my homework and preparing for my first exams that are next week! However my mom and I went to walmart yesterday and I bought some things to make a cheese pie like the cherry cheese pies that granny keck makes. However I couldn't find canned cherries so I made a blueberry compote to put on top. The pie is a disaster! It tastes delicious of course, but for some reason it didn't set up like it normally does...its just kind of a runny goopy mess. But as long as it tastes good...whatever we can eat it with spoons right! Anyway yesterday my parents showed me the parrots that like to hang around outside the house across the street in the trees. There were like 7 of them...bright green with red beaks and feet. They just like to sit in the treet and eat the seeds. It's kinda comical because people will be walking by on the sidewalk under the trees and the seeds will fall on them after the parrots eat part of them...the people just look up in amazement like "what was that?" but they can't see them because the tree is the same color as the birds....hehehe...while we just stand on the balcony and chuckle at them. Also my parents showed me a woman who walks by everyday to go back and forth to the market...she is going to be 102 years old this year and walks perfectly without a cane or a walker back and forth with her huge bags of fruits and veggies....wow I hope if I make it to 102 years old I'm still a young spry chick like she is.
So to make up for the pie-mishap I went to this local bakery called "el globo", which to the people who live here is really expensive. I bought a huge croisant, a chocolate eclair, a pastry that was baked in the shape of a horseshoe and is covered in caramel and chopped nuts, and a chocolate covered donut for their oldest grandson, Leonardo, for only 45 pesos which is like barely over $3.00 (not very expensive to us). Needless to say he flipped over the donut...and held it and charished it like it was his baby. Oh the simplicities of being 5 years old! But that's ok because if someone gave me some good chocolate I would probably be just as excited! Also yesterday my mom warmed up a drink called "atole"...it's just cooked fruit (in this case guava) and milk blended together and you can either drink it cold or hot...I drank it hot...it was good but I'm not a big fan of the really hard seeds that are in the guava. Mom says I just need to drink them because the doctors recommend drinking them...something like it's good for your digestion?? I don't know...but the drink was ok.
Anyway I just thought I would post that it IS rainy and cold outside today...just so that you all won't be quite as jealous of me for being in such a wonderful place that I am. I will post again when something exciting happens! ¡Hasta luego!
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