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.

On Thursday after soccer we went to a pizzeria to get some pizza before we went home to cook for Thanksgiving tomorrow. While we were waiting for our pizza to be made, we looked around at the store across the street and found some measuring spoons (which we needed badly). When we got home we ate our pizza and started working on the apple pies. One thing: we didn't have a rolling pin. My mom has always loved wine and there was one bottle that my mom hadn't finished, but it was basically the rolling pin shape so... it had to do. It was really fun making the crust, tearing bread for the stuffing, rolling the crust notably with the wine bottle half full. Around (ten I think) we talked with our cousins and talked about what kind of bands we liked, what we want to do for a job when we're an adult and once when I said I wanted to be a pilot they thought I said pirate so we all ended cracking up. We went to sleep really late (I don't know what time (probably because I was to tired)).
My dad had to carry me to my room because I fell asleep in my mom and dad's bed.

                                                                    FRIDAY

We didn't go to school on Friday because we had so much work to do for Thanksgiving. My mom and dad worked on one of the turkeys (there were two but one was too small for 10 people so we had to get two. Me and my sister watched Pirates of the Caribbean on Netflix because we had finished all our jobs. After school had ended one of our friends came over to help for the last bit. When all the guests had arrived we finally started to dig in on the mouth-watering food and apple cider (burned my tongue too many times drinking apple cider because it was so good I couldn't wait for it to cool down). After the turkey and the other food we lit off a lot of fireworks. Then we came in for apple pie which we wolfed  down in seconds (not literally but really fast). It was sad to have everyone go, but I soon forgot about it because I fell asleep really quickly.