Aguas Frescas
Yesterday after my museum visits, Briana and I went with other students from the school to Truco 7 for dinner. I had agua fresca de sandia (watermelon water) and nachos. It was delicious. And then the long walk home.
Aguas frescas are really common here. They are basically some type of fresh fruit juice mixed with water. You can get them in pineapple, watermelon, mango, papaya, cantaloupe, etc., etc. and they're really refreshing. Vendors sell them on the streets. Yesterday for lunch we had one made of some herb which I can´t remember the name of and which is supposedly similar to cilantro. It was sweetened with sugar and smelled (and looked) like fresh cut grass and was really good.
Funniest thing I saw in Mexico yesterday:
Lola, the lady who comes during the week to clean our house, is extremely nice, but we've all agreed that she's lacking in the mental capacity area. Yesterday when I got home from school, Lola was the only one who was home. She had the stereo cranked up with this sappy Mexican music and she was singing her heart out as she mopped the floor (most of the time ahead of the actual lyrics on the tape). All of the sudden she must have realized how behind she was in her chores, or that the boss was coming home, or that she still had to make us lunch, or something, because she went into hyperdrive with the mop. I could hear her from my room muttering furiously under her breath, and banging against the wall with the mop, and knocking things over. I even heard her run (a grown woman running with no visible emergency)around the corner in her hurry to mop the whole house in less than 1 minute and 45 seconds. Briana aptly described her as a Mexican Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons. Even when she was finished mopping and she was serving us lunch, she still hadn't come out of hyperdrive. She was running from the kitchen to the table with our chicken (and potato) tacos, which were awesome, by the way.
Funniest thing I saw\heard in Mexico today (although I must admit, it´s funny in a sophomoric way):
One of my classmates gave an example sentence in class which translates into English as 'I will pick you up in the morning if you wake up early.' However, she used the verb 'coger' which in Spain Spanish means 'pick up' or 'catch,' BUT in Mexico Spanish it means a four letter word beginning with the letter 'f'. So in Mexican Spanish, she said, 'I will 'coger' you in the morning if you wake up early.' Our teacher's reaction was great.
Aguas frescas are really common here. They are basically some type of fresh fruit juice mixed with water. You can get them in pineapple, watermelon, mango, papaya, cantaloupe, etc., etc. and they're really refreshing. Vendors sell them on the streets. Yesterday for lunch we had one made of some herb which I can´t remember the name of and which is supposedly similar to cilantro. It was sweetened with sugar and smelled (and looked) like fresh cut grass and was really good.
Funniest thing I saw in Mexico yesterday:
Lola, the lady who comes during the week to clean our house, is extremely nice, but we've all agreed that she's lacking in the mental capacity area. Yesterday when I got home from school, Lola was the only one who was home. She had the stereo cranked up with this sappy Mexican music and she was singing her heart out as she mopped the floor (most of the time ahead of the actual lyrics on the tape). All of the sudden she must have realized how behind she was in her chores, or that the boss was coming home, or that she still had to make us lunch, or something, because she went into hyperdrive with the mop. I could hear her from my room muttering furiously under her breath, and banging against the wall with the mop, and knocking things over. I even heard her run (a grown woman running with no visible emergency)around the corner in her hurry to mop the whole house in less than 1 minute and 45 seconds. Briana aptly described her as a Mexican Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons. Even when she was finished mopping and she was serving us lunch, she still hadn't come out of hyperdrive. She was running from the kitchen to the table with our chicken (and potato) tacos, which were awesome, by the way.
Funniest thing I saw\heard in Mexico today (although I must admit, it´s funny in a sophomoric way):
One of my classmates gave an example sentence in class which translates into English as 'I will pick you up in the morning if you wake up early.' However, she used the verb 'coger' which in Spain Spanish means 'pick up' or 'catch,' BUT in Mexico Spanish it means a four letter word beginning with the letter 'f'. So in Mexican Spanish, she said, 'I will 'coger' you in the morning if you wake up early.' Our teacher's reaction was great.