Thursday, October 25, 2012

On Sunday we ran a 5km road race and had a lot of fun.  We also met a couple from North Caroline and saw how fast other people could run. Toward the end of the race, my feet started to become dull from hitting the ground so often.

On Monday my head kinda itched but I thought it was just because I hadn't taken a shower in a week. I'm also really looking forward to my awesome grandparents visiting.

On Tuesday, my mom was looking through my hair in the morning because I said it still itched a lot and she found some sort of bugs in my hair. When my dad looked it up, we discovered that they were lice. When I got back from school and finished soccer mom started combing my hair again and found a lot of them. Afterward I took a shower just in case.


                                                     Here's the volcano before it exploded.










Here is my volcano exploding 2 different ways.

This is me and my friend who is visiting his old school.

On Wednesday everybody in the school had to present what they had been studying for geography. First we did a practice one while Segundaria cooked for the parents that would come. We were also accompanied by little preschoolers that carried our flags. I was going to do my presentation but a lot of my friends and other people were anxious to see the volcano that I had been working on for the past week. We had a great time eating yummy food like sushi! I was also pretty proud when my volcano exploded.
 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

On Wednesday, I moved up a grade at school. It was kind of a blur to me, because one second I was in my class, and the next second I was talking to the teacher to see if I could move up. I wanted to move up because most of the stuff that I was studying in my class I was already familiar with and I was wishing I could go up a grade to have more of a challenge. Also, in fifth grade they were my kind of peeps because they basically had ACDC on their phones so it was all cool with me. It's kind of funny to think of how easy I got into fifth grade because in Salt Lake you would have to talk to a counselor, a teacher, the principal and do paperwork upon paperworks.

On Thursday, Maya's mom came to talk to us about sexuality which was kind of awkward since our class is made up of all boys and one girl (but luckily the girl wasn't there that day). She talked about how the relationship you have with your mom and dad and how you love them is different than when you love someone like a girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or husband. She also talked about how when babies come out, the first thing they usually see is their mom, which is why they have a very strong relationship with their mom, at least usually. I didn't get to listen to too much of it because my tummy was really hurting. I went down to the office and they gave me a pill to make me feel better. It felt better for a while, but then hurt again so I asked them to call my dad to see if he could come pick me up. My tummy hurt so bad one time that I started to cry. When my dad arrived he talked to me about how bad my belly felt and thought about going to a doctor. I basically stayed home, watched some videos and played some video games because I didn't want to do anything else. But then at one particular moment while I was at home my tummy felt worse than ever and so I went to the bathroom to see if I was going to vomit. When I vomited I felt really bad and shaky because it was trying to suck out the bad thing from my body and it took all my energy. Then a little while after I ate, I threw that up also. I felt really bad after both times, because not only did I throw up I was also really tired.

On Friday, I stayed home from school and basically did the same thing I did the day before, except for the throwing up part, luckily.

On Saturday I had a soccer game at nine and then stayed home for Mina's soccer game. Then after we cleaned up around the house, my sister's friend Lore came over and she and my sister worked on their project about pregnancy for Wednesday. While they were working, I worked on my volcanoes of Germany project that I have to present on Wednesday, too, because each month we all have to make a presentation in front of the principal and our classmates. I also have a sculpture of a volcano at the school and I am using a bottle and a cork and covering it with paper mache and letting it dry in the sun and I'll put baking soda and vinegar in the bottle so the cork pops off. And I'm also going to put a thin layer of paper mache so it explodes and looks like rocks. I'm also going to paint the cork black so it looks like a rock when it flies in the air. After we worked we went out to eat at a very good Italian restaurant and had some yummy pizza with Lore. Then we went to see some Russian skaters in a large crowd in front of the Cathedral.

Sorry it took me so long to post this. My mother is typing this so it is longer than my usual ones.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

These last two days have been really fun because on Monday I went rock climbing and Alejandro said I could make another route and I could name them if I wanted. The first one that I did last week I named Thunderbird because it has a zig-zag pattern and is white taped with blue zig-zags.The second one I named Titanic because it goes from one side of the rock climbing wall to the other side and has red tape against black tape. On Tuesday I found my inner peace with soccer doing some moves that I didn't know I could do. Then watched the debate and played a ww2 flying game that's really cool.
Today I had my soccer game today but before that we had an couple hour ceremony announcing the different teams ranging from: 5-45. It was really boring but when my soccer game started it was really fun even though we lost. I scored but there was a foul before that so it didn't count but we would have lost any way.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Just so you you guys know: I think my fourth favorite of acdc (and of all time) is Highway to Hell.

Saturday, October 13, 2012


After my sister's soccer team lost in a frustrating 3-1 defeat (though it was not mina's fault at all), we went home to get some stuff and change before we went to Tenejapa (a small town). We got some really good popsicles and looked inside their awesome church. We also had some really yummy tacos and tamales at restaurant. Then at night we watched a really good Heroes episode on Netflix.



Here's a shrine we saw on the way out.






           

Here's a part of the church and


here we are at the restaurant.



PS: SORRY WE DO NOT HAVE VERY MANY PICTURES BECAUSE IT'S FORBIDDEN TO TAKE PICTURES OF PEOPLE IN TRADITIONAL CLOTHES TOWN AND STATUES IN THE CHURCH.

I LOVE ac/dc. I don't think that I've ever known what people meant by old school rock until now. I mean those people were GENIUSES. They have so many hits! Back in Black, Thunderstruck... you name it!

My favorite songs of all time and ac/dc are definitely:

1: You Shook Me All Night Long
2: Thunderstruck
3: Back in Black
4: Shake a Leg
5: TNT

By the way here's a link to an awesome kid playing the drum part for Back in Black-

5-year old plays back in black on drums.
One thing I really enjoy here is making a base for army men with candles and army men. I made 2 bunkers out of a box of plastic by cutting them in half. (a bunker is where army men stay.) I also put some black oil cloth over them to protect it from the rain.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

When we got out of school we didn't have much time to go to soccer before going to my dad's presentation at a high school for nurses. Also between Mina feeling sick and having to ride a taxi to Sedem (on our own) we didn't go to soccer. 

We had some awkward moments before the class while we waited for the key to get into the room. While we were waiting, we had to stand around outside with some juniors while we talked English to one kid. My sister and me went to the library to play on the phone, eat some chips and sip some soda while my dad did the presentation. Then after my dad's presentation we went and watched my mom dance. Then at home we had a nice time relaxing.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The last two days have definitely been two of the best days of my life. On Tuesday, we made fig marmalade with fig's we picked the day before. Everybody helped by stirring, putting in sugar or calculating how much of each ingredient to put in and figuring out how much each person got. The next day, we each brought some home. The teacher gave me some extra 'cause she said I worked hard and because we are new, we should get a Mexican experience while we're here. After school, we took a taxi home because my dad was doing a presentation of being a nurse for some juniors in a high school. I had Spanish class and then I went straight to rock climbing. Alejandro remodeled everything and it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUN! I even overheard a compliment while I was climbing! I was climbing and I heard some new person say to his friend that I look like a climber.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Today we went to visit our friend who we now from our visits before. He had surgery on his nose so when we saw him is nose was really big and taped up. When we went home I wanted to go rock climbing but they were remodeling it so I couldn't climb. When we came home we wrote on our blogs and read.

Friday, October 5, 2012

After school on thursday we went to Comitan only two hours away instead of going all the way to Guatemala in one day to get our passports stamped. The reason we had to go to guatemala is because when we crossed the border they didn't stamp our visas even though we asked them. Right after we left town we encountered a road block. Because the Mayor took some money to buy some property, the police wanted their money back so they blocked the road. Though for some reason we didn't have to pay. After some patient waiting and some Pepsi they finally let us through. Our drive to Comitan was really pretty and we had a cool hotel. After we parked the car and dropped our bags off we went to the plaza and had a great time. There were decorations, good restaurants,good climbing trees and some really good food. After some dessert we went back to our hotel and watched a spy movie. In the morning we got up pretty early and ate breakfast at the hotel and then got on the road. When we got to Guatemala it was a little confusing but we finally got our passports stamped and were on our way. we got stopped by some army men two times but they let us go in both cases. on our way back we stopped at some old ruins and played tag on an ancient old ball court. The next day we had a soccer game ech of us and we won them both! after our soccer games we went to a string if a bunch of shops and got some more soccer socks and a mexican jersey for my dad. Then we had a normal night for the rest of the day.



This was a couple weeks ago just so you now.
Today we went to Chedraui (a store) and went on busses to Tuxtla, when we got there we ate sandwiches. After eating we went and checked out the animals. Me and my friend Wicho went to go walk around with my sister's class. While we walked and saw the animals we talked. Also when we saw an animal we would say who they would be of the people in mina's class (including me and my friend). I slept on the way back because I was really tired.


PS. Sorry we didn't bring a camera so there aren't any pictures.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Today not very many people came to soccer because it rained for a while before soccer, though we had a good time we got really muddy. Tomorrow our school is going to go on a field trip to the zoo in Tuxtla and I think we'll have a lot of fun.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Today I tweaked my back somehow and then it rained really hard but stopped right before soccer. Soccer was really fun but it made it harder because my back hurt a lot. Also I got really muddy because  the activity was were you put a ball in the middle and you run at each other trying to get the ball. And three of the three times we didn't chicken out so we both ran straight at each other and I fell down two of the three times. After soccer I took a long shower to get the mud off. But after the shower my back just hurt more.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Yesterday I had another play-date with my friend Cenec and we had a lot of fun playing with the animals,going on the swing,playing with nerf guns and a ton of other things. Then later that evening we saw Emma play in his band. [Cenec's brother]
The next day I went to school and a smaller class marched around and Iddy [ulrich's sister] could barely hold the flag up! since it wasn't raining I went to the rock climbing jim and had a lot of fun. Also there was a new girl trainer and a new kid came to rock climbing.