Monday, November 5, 2012

Tamalitos and cookies

I have not really had access to a computer lately, so I apologize for not updating!

I made chocolate chip cookies for my family last weekend, and for some reason they were as flat as a pancake. Like almost see-through. My mom thought I ¨tortilliad¨them. Perhaps it was because I didn´t have measuring cups and eyeballed everything..oops.

I gave my first english lesson! Those poor children... Half the time they ask me what a word is in english but I don´t know what the word in spanish is so I just make something up...

My family does not celebrate Dias de los Muertos, so Annie came over and we went to the cemetary by ourselves.  

Friday was my sister´s graduation and we had no less than half the population of China in our house. We all woke up early and made TONS of food. 
 We made tamalitos, pure maize wrapped in leaves and cooked.

The party after the graduation was really fun, everybody made sure to include me so I didnt feel left out. There is a boy at church that speaks English, and I offered to help him with his english if he helped me with my spanish..he didnt seem too enthused. rude. I´m still working on him though.

There is also this lady at church that is about 402 years old, and is about three feet tall. Even shorter than my grandma! She has half a tooth left and only one eye but she is very cool. She dances during the service when she wants to, she prays outloud when she wants to, she sings whatever song she wants to, regardless of whether the rest of us are singing the same song. She also rocks out when the worship band plays and claps to a beat that only she can here. Everytime I see her she toddles over to say hi to me, I really like her. 

On that note, I must go prepare for another English class today. Hope you all have a good week!

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