Fiesta Time!
It’s fiesta time here in Guadalajara! La Fiesta de Octubre (hope I spelled that right!) kicked off at the start of the month, and last night was the Festival of the Virgin. On Sunday night I went out to a big fairground at Periferico Norte with my landlord, Jorge, and one of my flatmates, Lety. It was fantastic! I drank caña (sugarcane juice), ate burritos (with meat, unfortunately, but you can’t have everything), somehow managed with my puny Spanish to talk Jorge and Lety into joining me on this ‘Crazy Mouse’ ride, which left poor Lety looking decidedly pale, and watched a fantastic dance show with men in white suits and women with those incredible full skirts that the swirl about all over the place.Then, last night I got home from work and my new flatmate, Katrine, from Germany, asked me if I wanted to come out to the Fiesta de la Virgen with her and some of her friends. I was like, “it’s 9:30 at night, I’m tired, I haven’t had dinner yet… sure!” Had a fantastic time with some great people. Dinner was no problem: I had corn served with sour cream, cheese, chili and lemon, tacos with everything (again with the meat: it hasn’t been a great week for vegetarianism), this sweet tortilla thing with honey on top, and some pieces of sugarcane. Mmmmmmm! It was all delicious, and so far I haven’t had any stomach upsets.
Apparently they paraded a statue of the Virgin from the Cathedral up to one of the suburbs this morning, although I didn’t participate due to the fact that it was a 5am start.
And another piece of good news: I have 4.5 hours a week teaching at Hersheys, beginning Friday. Two ladies, and all they want is conversation practice, so I’ll be getting paid to sit around talking and drinking cappuccino. And free chocolate was mentioned!
posted by Paulette @ 11:59 AM
2 Comments:
As Bill and Ted said: "Party on, dudes!" LOL!!!
Have you turned into a vegetarian? I guess its safer than what meat you can find in those areas :)
Isn't sugarcane excellent! I got quite partial to it in India and Vietnam.
Do you reckon the banking system over there is better than the terrible service we have in the UK?
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