The next two days.

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Mexico city already seems to feel like a bit of a second home now. We feel like we've been here forever...although we quickly remember this is not the case every time we try to speak to someone and realise our Spanish is...er...not so good. We have made quite a few friends none the less, including Mexican students from Universidad La Salle, friends of the family we live with and of course the people in our course (all Aussies and all girls). Yesterday was our first day at Universidad La Salle. We are now proud owners of student cards (that we need to scan in order to enter the campus) and already know a lot more about Mexican history and basic health care in Mexico (the topics of our first two lectures). We have also very much been enjoying our little walks to uni each day. A little dangerous perhaps (mostly thanks to cars and taxis...they say they drive in the right? They drive everywhere!), but we've managed fine so far.
We have been trying our hardest to try as much Mexican food as possible. It's only been a few days but we've had some really interesting (and yummy) stuff already. This has included lots of tacos, green sauce and red sauce, guacamole, quesadillas and other stuff I can't remember the name of. And we have liked everything so far (even the chamomile tea...how on earth do they make chamomile tea taste good?). Some of the students at La Salle gave us a quick taco assembling and eating lesson over lunch yesterday. They make it look so easy, but Jo and I both had dramas. It tasted fantastic, but I am not very good at eating things with my fingers.
I must admit that I'm a little sad to see that Subway and Starbucks are both on the uni campus. There are also Domino's shops all over the place..maybe I could pick up a few shifts while we're here...
And just for the record, Ali (our House Mama) says that burritos are not Mexican (she thinks they are an American invention) and that tortillas are the real deal. We have had tortillas at just about every meal so far and they are so good. Ali buys them freshly made from a man who lives around the corner (not far from the man who we buy our fresh chicken off). Most the rest of the food comes from the markets, but as Jo and I will be at uni all week (our schedule even fills up our weekend) we will probably not be able to accompany Ali on this venture. Ali is also trying to teach us Spanish. We are trying very hard to learn, but it is big. We pick up enough words at the dinner table to sometimes understand the general topic of conversation, but we always need someone to translate the whole story (usually Luis, Ali and Gil's son. They like to make him practice his English.) Hopefully we will get much better!

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Comments

[mick]

glad you guys are enjoying the food - you now know the difference between mexican and texican... hope your spanish improves with every meal! mick