Another Blog Entry!

I decided to splurge and do two blog entries in pretty much the same day. Or at least in the last thirty hours.

Thank you for your comments and birthday wishes!!!!

It was an awesome day. But first I will tell you about last night. At 12:00 on the dot, my parents and brothers came into my room, where I was writing in my blog, and did a traditional Mexican song for me! It was called mananitas (my keyboard doesn't have the enyay key to spell this word correctly), or something like that and it means "little mornings". They brought a piece of cake with candles on it and a balloon. And also an iPod dock because they had some sweet Mexican music (birthday song?) playing from it. It was really nice of them and it was definetly a surprise! I woke up and my host family put up paper cut-out letters spelling HAPPY 18TH DIANNA near my breakfast plate, and there were more balloons! And then just in the last couple of minutes I noticed a picture frame that my host mom gave to me and she printed a picture of my family (in Canada!) to put in it. Also one of my brothers tied the pictures they took of me last night with my birthday cake, onto flowers, and put them into a vase in the bathroom I share with my sisters.

Today we had a dinner at our house and it seemed like a lot of people were here! There was Ernesto (dad), Cecilia (mom), Pollo (hermano), Enrique (hermano), Michael (Canadian host brother), my host grandmother, my great aunt, a nextdoor neighbour who is also an aunt, Eduardo and Tito (from school). We had pork ribs and chicken wings, of course tortillas with some accessories to put inside, cucumber water, chips with salsa, asparagus, zucchini... and more food ahah. For lunch I had a cake made by my host dad's sister in law, who has a catering buisness. It translates to "combination chocolate cake". Delicious for short.

After we ate, me, my brothers and our friends went out to the yard and played ping-pong, futebol, reloj, and then later guitar hero while watching the soccer game on tv. It was a good time! They stayed for most of the afternoon and evening and then my parents (Canada) called me to wish me a happy bithday! So that was really nice.

Then! I was on the computer with Enrique and Michael when Cecilia told us there was a lightning storm outside. So we shimmied onto the roof which I had no idea we could go on! It's flat, pretty big and you can see a lot of the colony (neighbourhood) when you're up there. Michael went to bed but Enrique and I stayed up there trying to catch the lightening for a long time. We took probably two hundred pictures at least and maybe a dozen of them are half good. But it was great though; it wasn't raining or anything, there was just lightning in the distance. He was using a tripod and I was thinking of creative ways to keep my camera steady. In the end a glow stick worked the best jajaja. It was awesome being with someone who shares an interest in taking crazy pictures.

When we decided to come back inside the house we used the glow stick to lead the way and we started laughing becasue it reminded us of (Finding Nemo?) when it was like all dark under the water, and then some wacko fish comes into the picture and he has some kind of light dangling in front of his face. So that was a good birthday.