Merry Christmas Everybody!!!!!!! 

-Oscar

decorating with my grandmother for christmas was really fun. After we bought the tree we made strings of popcorn and put felt or ties in between. I also wrapped presents and made them. We didn't bring stockings so we are going to use socks. We came to soccer on Monday I was much better. First I scored          three out of four of the winning goals and stole the ball from some of the better kids.

It's been really weird because these last few days have chaotic. First the indigenous are mad at the government because they kidnapped some of their leaders so the indigenous are trying to kidnap other people to try to trade them for their leaders. At one point on accident a firework burnt down a building and was still smoldering days later! My friend's dad told us to not go to school on Friday because it was dangerous but when the people who did go to school that day the school closed at 12:00 so it didn't really matter. We still had a lot of fun at school playing with kids and using tires to play before school. We had so much fun that they want my dad to be the P.E. teacher!

 

 

We are having a great time with my godmothers. We went and shopped a TON, we played cards, went  to coffee shops, simply talked and most of all had fun. On Sunday we watched parades because they're celebrating the Virgin Mary.

Today was fun except at soccer because I felt clumsy cause I kept slipping and stuff like that. Though I was pretty happy that I got ten out of ten on my math test and on my history project. Also I was happy because my god mothers were coming in two days!

Today I went to the climbing gym and had one of the best times of my life. First, I completed some fun but hard routes so that made me happy. Second, I met four new people who were really nice. The first one who's name was Vigotski (or something like that) was from Romania and was taking three months off in Mexico and attended a university in Florida. The second I don't know his name but was really nice and was from Italy. The third was really strong and was a martial artist and told me a story about when this racist guy attacked him in Italy because he had long hair and he cracked the guy's jaw and knocked him unconscious. Finally the last guy was this guy who sold Alex (Alejandro) a donut and then Alex bought me one too but anyway the guy's name was Patrick.

When we picked up my grandparents at the airport I was really happy because I hadn't seen them in a long time. On the drive back to our house we basically ate chocolate. When we arrived, we showed them their rooms and talked.

                                  Thursday  
In the morning me and my sister walked around with papa Tom and JoJo to show them the center. At two after my mom had finished her meeting, we got on the road to Tapachula. We didn't do much on the way there but a couple miles before Tapachula, we ran into a road block. Later we figured out that some city employees were on strike and blocked the road. We didn't know what to do because the line was moving forward a tiny bit but it would stop constantly and we didn't want to be caught in the middle of all the cars. We met these two people, one named Ftrank and the other I can't remember. They told us that a town a couple miles back had a hotel called La Piedra (The Rock). We talked about what people wanted to do and our options. We finally decided that we would go and try to find the hotel. We looked really hard but still couldn't find the hotel. By then I was asleep because I was very very tired. My dad was walking around and asking people for a decent hotel when he saw a big semi. He approached it and told the man about the blockade. Then asked if there was decent hotel close. The man then told my dad that actually the blockade was done. My dad thanked him and then we went on our way. In Tapachula We went to the hotel that was recommended in the guide book. When we located the hotel we went there right away. Turns out that the hotel was full so we tried a couple hotels then checked into one. We fell asleep almost right away. We watched TV while Papa Tom and my dad got some dinner.

 In the morning after eating breakfast we drove to the Ruta del Cafe. We that it wold be only one hour and fifteen minutes away but then the pavement was so bad it took two hours. First we tried some coffee and then we went to check out our cabin. Our cabin was awesome. It had a BATH, (we don't have one at home) a shower, two beds, a living room and a nice porch. The three days that we stayed there we got a tour of the coffee route, had coffee bean wars, went on the zip line, drank german beer including me because I decided it was my destiny :) (just a little though). We had a fun time and relaxed a lot.



This was a long time ago.