Linda's in Oaxaca, Mexico!: Exhausted from FUN!

Today was FUN! :) As you probably have read from the title already hahaha...Clinic was alright today...not too exciting as yesterday. A lot of times, I would just sit there...and wait for patients...and then perform physical exam on them. I saw another prego woman today. She is supposed to be due on 10/04/2010, so her belly was HUGE. I couldn't feel the baby's head as a result. Also, it could be due to the fact that she was kind of big. =X I've realized a lot of women here look MUCH older than their age. The pregnant woman is only 29 or so, but she looks like she's like...35 or 38 even. There was another woman who was 45 but she looked 60 to 65 ish. I think it's probably from the fact that they have a lot of household pressure and the fact that they probably don't use much sunblock.

Came home around 12:30pm and was SO tired. Wanted to take a nap, but my homestay mom asked me to accompany her to buy the material she needed for her new floor. So, off I went. Boy, was I surprised! I have NEVER seen SO many different types of floor designs and bathroom designs. Man, even though Mexico is so developing, they have some PRETTY sophisticated showers ie. shower spouts lined up in two rows on the wall. Talk about luxury. Quite honestly, I didn't know Mexico was capable of having things this modern just because I've only been around home and the center which is much older. I was glad I went because it was nice to see different parts of town as well as just talking to my host mom.

When we came home, we had la comida, then took a 10 minute nap and off I went to my 3 hour Spanish class. Oy. It. was. long. BUT, fun! Ha! At the end of class, we played Loteria, which is Mexican bingo except...very not-PG. LOL. There was a naked mermaid, a drunk, death, and other funky ones. Jennifer brought up Negrita (which is black person ... dunno why they had that on there), and it was probably due to my delusion from exhaustion, but what Sarah was like.."Este es de Hades.." I immediately shouted out "Negrita!" Funny thing is, I didn't even HAVE it on my card. Everyone stared at me for a while...I guess they all thought I meant that Negritas belong in Hades, which I understand, is OFFENSIVE, but I thought that she meant the COUNTRY Haiti. LOL. ANYWAYS, THAT caused a ruckus, as well as some others. We always have a good time in Spanish. LOVE my grupo.

Afterwards, everyone decided to get pan dulce or Mexican sweet bread. TOTALLY the same as Asian bread! YES!

note excitement! This was before Sarah spent 17pesos (around $1usd) on 8 breads.

Then, we all wandered to El Zocalol where we got delicious Fried Bananas topped with condensed milky goodness. Heaven.

YUMYUMYUM!!!

The Fried Banana clan!

Hung out and just did random things ..

Jane playing chess with a random person.

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