I rode my first camion (big public transportation bus) today with Lina. We went shopping at Sam’s Club and then came back to Huehuetoca to help out with a women’s Bible study workshop led by Kay.
Today I got up at about 10am. This is quite late compared to the time I usually get up here in Mexico. After eating breakfast and getting ready, Lina, Luigi, and I left to catch a microbus. We took this to the intersection crossing the highway and then we hopped on board a camion. This camion was rickety and not a very comfortable ride. The camion was also much slower getting to Izcalli (the place where Sam’s Club is and where Casey lives) than driving by car. The good thing is it only costs 15 pesos (~1.4 dollars) to ride the bus for about a 35 minute trip.
Once we arrived to Izcalli, we walked about 2 blocks and finally arrived at Casey’s house. After a little while Casey drove us all over to Sam’s Club and we stocked up on groceries for the next 2 weeks or so. I bought a bunch of oatmeal, bread, yogurt, and juice that will hopefully last me the rest of my time here. Following our trip to the store we loaded up Casey’s car and headed back up to Huehuetoca.
The next commitment in our schedule was that of helping out with a women’s Bible workshop that Kay was leading here in Huehuetoca. While Kay was teaching the women, we four interns and Casey took the women’s kids outside to play with them. We had fun playing corn hole with them and I played with some of them while they put together their model Transformer cars. Eventually we ended the class and I went back to hang out with my host family. Not much else happened besides eating an interesting dinner with Luigi and Lina.
The first soup that Lina served me was a little spicy and made out of little pasta noodles called fideo. After this I was served two cooked beef patties with one covered in a green tomato salsa. Both of these were pretty good, but I didn’t really care for the green tomato salsa. Time for bed now. Good night!
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