One Week To Go!

Hello all! So this is Maria! I thought it would be good to add a few pics of where I´m living. Finished the week with a visit to a bookstore with my tutor, as I´m about thirty pages away from finishing ¨Three Cups of Tea.¨ I bought two books, ¨Angels and Demons,¨and ¨Audacity of Hope (Obam´s book).¨ I´m pretty excited for them. And they´re in compact form, so it will be easy to travel with. I brought with me ¨The Curious Case of Benjamin Bunton,¨but I was fooled by the publisher. The story itself is only 20 pages or so. It is just the highlighted story in the book of 15 or so stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I was holding out to see the movie with Brad Pitt because I thought it was going to be a great book. Turns out, it´s no ¨Great Gatsby.¨ The idea of it is really neat, and I can see how turning it into a movie was perfect. Fitzgerald lacks any sort of detail to the setting and character developments. He jumps from the time Benjamin had 8 years to when he was 20 in a matter of sentences. Needless to say...I was disappointed. But on the upside, I´m going to go see the movie now!

A lot of the same routine went on all week. 9-11 tutor sessions with Cecha. 11:15-12:30ish reading at Starbucks. 2ish the kids come over and we eat lunch. Viviana gets home around 5 and we talk and play games until Wendy comes and get the kids. Glass of wine at night...maybe a beer. End with a movie or something on the tv and then off to bed.

Didn´t do anything last night (Friday). Stayed in and watched TV with Viviana. This morning I got up and went to the Gym. For 50 pesos, you can get a days pass. Not bad. The people there are really friendly. It´s the same gym I´ve gone to everytime I´ve been to Guatalajara...they call it BIKE House. They have spinning classes every day for 20 pesos. Can you believe that. That like less than $1.50. Barato (cheap)! Ne ways, it feels super good to start working out again. They use so much grease in their cooking, it was making me feel a little gross.

We had lunch just a little while ago and it was fish...a whole fish. Skin, head, eyes...all of it. To myt surprise, it was really good. We are sitting around talking right now and are about to go get Maria´s new dog...a dalmation. I´m super pumped. Everyone who is reading this probably knows how much I like dogs. I´ll try and get a picture up later!