Pescado Entero

March 15, 2008
2:41 PM
In our room

The big news for this week is that we will still be in La Esperanza next week. For those of you who have been following this blog closely know, we were supposed to leave for our site on Sunday for a week. However, because of the all the rain, flooding, and subsequent mudslides the Peace Corps thought it best that we remain where we are. So here we stay for another week to enjoy Semana Santa with our family here.

We are still tentatively going to be traveling the following two weeks but don’t be surprised if those plans change as well. We’ll let you know as soon as we do.

This past week we had language interviews again, I moved up a level and Mike didn’t…he also didn’t take the interview because his Spanish is already so good, but I’d rather focus on how great I am

I also gave an environmental education lesson at a school in town with a group of two other aspirantes. I’d say it went OK all things considered but certainly had room for improvement seeing as how we thought we were going to be teaching a class of ten year olds and they turned out to be four year olds. Needless to say they were a little young for what we had planned. But on a positive note we gave an entire lesson in Spanish and that’s still something.

We also received mail this week, from Mike’s grandma, which was very exciting. And our family absolutely adored the cards and little toy that she sent along for them (check out the photos of Christmas morning-like joy on Santiago’s face. Direct quote: La abuelita de Miguel me quiere mucho porque me ha mandado un jugete tan lindo. To which Dona Fabiola replied: Ahora tienes tres abuelas). A little Spanish homework for all you loyal subscribers.

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and word on the street is that a burro with a statue of some sort attached to it is going to lead a procession through town ending by entering the church. During this procession all of the towns people carry palms and rosemary. However, we’ve been told that there might not be as much rosemary as usual because here people burn rosemary to keep rains away…and what with the floods and all people are burning a lot of rosemary.

So all in all it was a great week (pescado entero is delicious!) and we are looking forward to more great weeks to come. Oh, and it just started to hail like crazy here!

Happy Semana Santa to all, eat lots of chocolate bunnies for us!


(grandma, thank you for explaining how to look at the slideshow in spanish (see the comments section from last week´s post). We´re very proud of your technical skills.)



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