One family's account of living in Mexico for a year.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Hey girl HEY! this is stephanie, and i am here reporting from cuernavaca. The flights coming into mexico went quite smoothly...actually a little tooooo smoothly... i arrived to mexico city with only my purse and camera! i had to check a wheel chair and two carry-on, which i was surprised that i was able to do since there was an embargo. so i got to cuernavaca empty handed.Once in cuernavaca we went straight to a posada and ate, danced and sang (poorly). We were all pretty tired and i was ready for bed. we got back to the house around 11pm and slept in the next day. we all went to a cute cafe called Molienda were we had breakfast and picked up some sweets for christmas. Nicholas and Larissa have really improved on their spanish and are speaking quite fluently. I am not going to lie, but mexico feels different. Maybe its because its not summer, but either way i am very happy to be here! Gee Gee is defintely a breath of fresh air! she is so playful and easy going. Xoch is still the same old bitty, but she was excited to see me. If you yell "Go Get Her!" Xoch will run after Gee Gee all around the yard until she gets tired, which is about two laps around. Later on in the evening, nicholas larissa and i went downtown to do some last minute christmas shopping for mom and dad. we walked around and they showed me around to some places i have never been. I got to see where larissa practices the bass and where nicholas practices break dancing-but i have yet to see him bust a move. Later on in the night the three of us went up the street to the church and then went around the see the posadas. There were a couple of pinatas being wacked at down the street and we stayed around to grab some fruit. Mom stayed home with dad because she had a major case of the runs. poor girl. At one point in the night she actually ran to the bathroom claiming "I POOPED MY PANTS!" we were nervous for the long drive the next morning to El Ajusco. We woke up the next day and got ready to go for a christmas eve get-together at Tio Jorge's house. On our way we went back to the airport and picked up my luggage and then headed up the mountain. We got there tired and hungry and so we ate some at Jaime's house and then took a nap while the kids hung out. Later on, around 9 we all gathered in Tio Jorge's house and started to talk and get our drink on ( and by 'our' i mean our cousins ). We finally got to eating around 1130pm. the dinner consisted of turkey, greenbeans, romeitos with mole, cranberry sauce, and lots of fish dishes and some desserts afterwards. Then we proceeded to open gifts from the family and we finally went to bed around 2am. The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and were on our way back to cuernavaca to have christmas dinner at our house with tia, jose, jose, sergio and his girlfriend. We had the same kind of food and more desserts. We ate, told lots of jokes (thanks to Sergio and his many voices) mainly of poop and farts. we were hoping that the evening would last later into the evening but they have alll left and its only 730pm and it feels like midnight... i feel like i'm getting old because all i want to do is sleep. I think its just my vacation time setting in. Oh, and i almost forgot, for christmas we decorated the font tree with mini pinatas, it looks really cute. we have a lot of eating to do, and im sure we'll fill up the time while i'm here. i have not seen any of my friends , but maybe for new years i will go to DF. and i'm excited because there is going to be a wedding on the 28th across the street. i have a feeling we are going to get CRUUUUUUNKED

Sunday, November 4, 2007

MY STORY!!

How are all of u guys i miss u like crazy. so i am really really sorry that i have not been keeping in touch but i have been so busy so this is what i am doing. so i am in two bands or orch. one band stinks but i have a lot of friends in it and then the other
one is really good but i am having fun in both them. Also i am on a volleyball team and they are really good so they kind of scare me little bit. lol lol. so this is a pic of kentucky so i thought u would like to see it i thought it was cool. This is a pic of me and nick in Texas at the aquirum it was really cool the whole thing was inside but i was really cool!ok i know i know i am so sexy in this picture i think i should look like that everyday. So i have to say out of all of the pictures this i my favorite!!!!

AS U CAN SEE ME AND NICK WERE REALLY BORED REALLY REALLY BORED!! mom got us gugles for swimming and me and nick wanted to wear them. This year we have gotten a lot of flowers in the yard here are just a few!!

ok i dont know if mom told u about they dude that i coming to live with us he is so funny and he is are best friend his name is jorge and he is 14. he is moving in with tommor monday!! so that will be so much fun u guys would love him. So everything here is very exiting but with jorge coming it will be better i think but i miss u all so much~~~~!

love

larissa

Thursday, November 1, 2007

I dont think this blog is workin?

Well it seens like no body wants to blog but ill keep it goin. OK lets see ummmmm ummmmm ohhhhh ohh i know i cook suhi today mmmmmmmmmmm. i did it for ingles even though i dont know what that has to english. any ways we made it with Philly cream cheese cucumbers and this thing that looks like crab legs alredy pulled out its kind of like string cheese it tastes nothin like it but it is flimsy and peels ez. OK now what ummm umm well i had chicken wings today made by mom aka taco mom. What else ooooooooohhhhhhh jorge is going to live with us on monday thats exciting i guess. Today is day of the dead we made a nice altar for u gringos including me (decoraded table) We put candles flowers sugar skulls wine jello ohhh that reminds me i want jello bye....

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Wazzzz up

Hey the great mexico experiment is ok. Dad is has an addicion to sweets pan dulce as im lossing my taste for sweets. Except for some candies. Gee Gee aka poddle puppy we think is difentily pregnat. Xocil???? what ever is having a fun experiment off lease mexican style off lease no rules. Larissa seems like she never left Pitt. She still is on the computer as much talks on the phone as much its like the same old same old. Mom is happy she loves it hear but still has a cleaning iration like our house has been trashed like its a bit messy but no comparision to our house in pitt. Over all its good and good ill keep u updated talk 2 u later