Una Grande Aventura

Hoy, yo tenir una grande aventura.

Today, I had a large adventure. Holy smokes. I don't even know where to begin. No. Wait. That's a lie...

This week (this past Friday to this coming Saturday) I get the opportunity to live with a Mexican Family. I'm living with Pastor Jose and his family. I have 3 sisters, Citlali, Quetzali and Karina. My first night we had pizza for dinner and I learned a couple new games (nieces and nephews, watch out!) Saturday we had a busy day including but not limited to: a basketball game that we missed, a soccer game, shopping, a nap, youth group, a birthday party and staying up late. Sunday was crazy because it was my sister Quetzali's birthday party (she just turned 14) and since my father is the pastor, we got to church early. Oh, and everyone else on staff met and moved in with their Mexican families. Hope everyone is having a blast and learning a lot of Spanish!

Which brings us to today: I didn't have work today, but my sisters all had school and both of my parents had work (they're teachers.) So I got the privilege of waking up whenever I wanted and hanging out with a lady from the church (Paty.) She made me breakfast and we had a great conversation. She's in Seminary to become a Pastor of Music. Then another lady from the church came and I got to spend the day with her. Which began the insanity- in a good way.

Maggi sells school uniforms. Three times a week she goes to a Prepa in Tecate and sells the uniforms. So today involved going to Tecate. But first we took Paty to her house off of Casablancas. Then we went to Maggi's house and hung out there for a little bit while she made her son (Israel-17) breakfast and I watched Spongebob Squarepants and Penguins in Spanish. Then we dropped Israel off at his Abuela's and stopped at D'Volada- and they got my order wrong and I wound up with coffee instead of tea. Lame, but it was needed in the end.

After that, we went to the house of a family from the church where Maggi gets the uniforms. The daughter (Dulce-18) is super neat and I met her on Saturday night at Youth Group, so it was nice to get to talk to her again. We kicked it there for a little bit and then Hermano Julio (Dulce's dad) came and we headed out to Tecate.

A Tecate: We stopped for Birria. Bam dude. Birria. In a cup. The best. Yeah. After we ate the birria, Maggi and I headed to the school with the husband of one of the ladies from the birria stand-I think... And we went to the school and sold uniforms for a couple hours. After, the principal from the school took us to the McDonalds, where I bought a kids meal solo for the Transformers toy.

We then met up with Julio and headed to the Mexican equivilent of GreyHound because the car broke down (hence the multiple different cars...) and we took the Greyhound back to Tijuana. When we first got on the bus te driver was playing "Waka Waka". Bam yeah!

We arrived in Tijuana tired, weary and ready to be home, but that wasn't the end of the adventure. The bus dropped us off about a half mile from where it was supposed to, so we got to lug all the uniforms down the hill to where Julio's wife awaited us with a car. We then went back to their house and I got to observe. Which was crazy. But they have their own honey farm.

And now I am finally home and have eaten dinner and am watching tv with my sisters. Phineas and Ferb and Sonny with a Chance. Yay! Have a great week!

Oh! And I get to go to San Diego con mi familia Americana in 5 dias!!!!

Dios se Bendiga!