8/22/2010

Corn in a Cup

As always I don't know where to start, so.... well two nights ago I went to the movies with my sister Ceci, her boyfriend Pepe, Michael and Enrique. We saw Mi Villano Favorito, which is Despicable Me in english. Then we went to Pepes for a bit and met his sister and her boyfriend. They live in a private colony, which looks more like the neighbourhoods in Canada becasue there are no tall gates in front of the houses. There is just one gate that you need to pass through when you enter the colony where they ask you for the house number you are going to, and also they need to take some form of ID from you, which they return when you leave the colony.
After we were there for a bit, we went door to door asking would anyone let us go on their roof so we could see all of Leon at night. Ahah, well not really "door to door" but down the line of tall towers we asked. No one said yes.
Then we walked a bit around a lake and then went to a coffee shop. We sat outside and I had a Cookies'n Cream Frappe Latte which was really good. After that we went home, I think.

This picture was taken from the roof of my house. Same place where Enrique and I took the pictures of lightning, just on other side of house.


Last night I went to watch a belly dancing (recital?). One of the girls at school told me about how she is a dancer, and although I didn't understand most of her Spanish, we ended up making more or less a plan of meeting there. Well, she would be there dancing and me and a couple of the others would come to watch (or so I thought). So! I got there maybe three or four minutes late and the recital was just starting. The lights we already out so I couldn't tell if any of the girls from my class were in the audience somewhere. I ended up sitting in the back beside a guy who was taking pictures throughout the whole thing. It was a really interesting recital. Half way through it I remembered my phone was getting low on battery so I hurried out into the foyer and used my broken Spanish to ask for a pen. I didn't realize that if my phone died, I would not only have no way of contacting my ride home, but also I don't know my home phone number off the top of my head..... it's like fourteen digits long. So I wrote the number on my arm and sneaked back in to watch the rest. I think I didn't get my information right though, becasue none of the other girls showed up! ahahah. It wasn't really a big deal.
After the recital thinger I really wanted to walk around by myself. The theatre I was at was right in downtown Leon and it was really cool. There is like some crazy street market, but it mostly sells just clothes and the sweetest thing is that there is a cathedral with a plaza where you can sit by a huge fountain and it's awesome. Of course there are tacitos for sale on the street corners and also elote, which is like fresh corn with lime and cheese etc in a styrofoam cup. But the sad part is that since I was alone and it was probably 20:30 (the sun has set) I wasn't sure where it was safe for me to go and also I didn't really want to get lost. So I couldn't really do a lot of exploring. I would have loved to have stayed there all night though.

Tomorrow there wil be a goodbye party for my three hermanos that are leaving. Tonight Cecilia went shopping for some supplies, and one of the ingredients for the meal is cow tongue, which looks absolutely disgusting. Its like a blueish-gray colour and it looks cold and furry. Also it's a lot bigger that I would have thought. We will put it in the tacos tomorrow...
Before we went "food" shopping, we went to La Plaza de Zapatos(or something), which is a huge outlet mall full of shoes. I managed to find a pair.

3 comments:

  1. Zapatos in Spanish and Sapatos in Portuguese! So great :) I love your blog!!!!

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  2. This all sounds amazing!! One of the biggest shockers for me was the fact you have a cellphone! And I have to know... did you eat the cow tongue? Love reading your blog and miss you!! :)

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  3. the cell phone was definately a shock for me too! i never thought that would happen. and you actually bought shoes? are you going to sell them on kijiji?! :) haha

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