Muy Bien! (Very Good!)
So people, its been a crazy few weeks, filled with assignments and lots of work and some time to have alittle parties and a trip out of town... More cooking fill our limited menu as we add spam(luncheon meat) and mushroom with garlic chili sauce(found it in the supermarket!) Thank god, we thought we were going to run out of spices if our supplies we brought from Singapore ran out. We bought dried Jalapenos(chili) and fried it with our beef for a spicy meal. And it was spicy indeed! The whole house was choking with our spiciness...
Our crazy roommate Carla invited her crazy mexican friends over and we had a little alcohol while i did Spanish homework. Afterwards they came out of her room and we had a great time chatting with them and learning Spanish vulgarities.. In Spanish, a word that is seemingly ok and not vulgar in common usage, can be a really vulgar word in another context. Latin American Spanish is all about context and its just plain hard to find that one word has SO MANY MEANINGS...
The crazy part of the night was that they ordered beer and it was delivered to our house! There's this dude who does alcohol home delivery and you have to find him on MSN to order. How awesome is that! You gotta love this country!
For those who may wonder how our place looks like, its a red house as seem in the picture. At the top left picture, you can see a nail salon just right below our house. We have a red convertible in our garage but that's the landlord's car... We went to our favorite supermarket, Soriana, and I took pictures of extremely cheap alcohol for you guys in Singapore to drool over.. Just look at the prices on the pictures and just divide by 7.44 to get the cost in Singapore dollars.. :)
BTW we live on House 3100, Cortinio, Colonial Valle Primavera. Just complicated. I dun even know my postal code.. haha
After a really boring week, we got our packs ready for an amazing school trip to Real de Catorce! It means Royal 14, named for 14 spanish soldiers that died fighting around this area. Its 3000metres above sea level and one has to go through an awesomely long tunnel, 20mins drive to get into the town. The place is so beautiful and untouched with everyone in their cowboy hats and teenagers riding horses instead of motorbikes or cars. Around this place, it is rumored that we can find Peyote, a magic 'mushroom'/ cactus that upon consumption, makes you hallucinate and for a very lonnng time... haha.. So I went on a quest to find that crazy mushroom...!
Getting out of the tunnel, we went straight to our beautiful colonial style hotels.. The streets were steep with cobblestones and horses and their shit littered those streets. You can see the people here lead very simple lives, tending to their horses and attracting small amounts of tourists to maintain their simple lives.
Reaching there we had some amazing lunch.. and explored the area.. Everyone was wearing and i was so tempted to get one.. The fried stuff on the top right is fried cocoa.. its weird eating fried chocolate...
Next up we got on our horses(those pooping things) and had a long and treacherous ride up the mountain to the ghost town! Yvonne's horse was the crazy one that bites other horses to get ahead and mine seems to be drunk and loves to walk by the edge of the cliff, scaring me like crazy.. But it was a great 2hrs, going up and down the mountain... with our thighs aching really badly after that. Everyone was walking like a horse after that...
Ok that's all folks.. So sorry about not updating.. Busy with traveling and exams! its crazy.. On CNY i have two papers! Crap.. Will update more about catorce, veracruz and other adventures..
With that.. adios!
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