A quiet day with Spanish and food

Yesterday , it rained very hard again almost all day, so I focused on my Spanish most of the day, and met the ladies for "Art Walk" and dinner later on. The amount of rain that came down was very impressive, and a bit depressing. But, we made the best of it.

I had my first exchange with Sophia, a gynecologist from PV, who is learning English at the University of Guadalajara (UofG) where I'm taking my Spanish classes. The UofG twins students together who want to practice. Sophia is very nice, about 35 years old and calm. She's married to a Canadian from Vancouver. Practicing with her went well. We talked about who we are and why we are studying each other's language.

After that, I had my conversation class. The students are teh same as last time, George, Louise, and Beverly will join next week. But the teacher is different. Now, we have Cynthia, a very animated and pleasant teacher from Guadalajara. The class was good. One of teh things we talked about was Canada, including the number of provinces and territories, why there are provinces and territories, and the history of colonialism in Canada and north americal as a whole (remember, Mexico is part of north america). Cynthia said we should watch Apocalypto, the movie with Mel Gibson because it describes some of Mexico's history from the mayan point of view.

When class was done, I was starving and it was raining pretty hard. So I crossed teh street to a big indoor/outdoor market and found a table near the railing (overlooking the river and lots of nice trees) in a restaurant upstairs. I had one of my best meals here so far, a wonderful burrito!!! And chatted with my ever so cute waiter, Eric. He was pleasant, wanted to learn some English, and had a killer smile! I'm thinking I'd like to go back again for the burrito and Eric's charming company.

Then I got wet, grrrr. I had to meet Joan and Darcy at a local art gallery. It was only about 10 blocks from teh market, but it was impossible to keep my feet dry. The water in the streets was several inches deep in many areas. Fortunately, I had a good rain jacket, so my body stayed dry.

We walked around the art galleries and went into a few tourist thing stores, then went to dinner at a fairly nice place. We chatted like school girls, again, then came home. It was a nice calm day.

Pictures: You can buy Corona in a 1.2(?) litre bottle here, just like quarts in Quebec!. The day of the dead, Nov 1&2 is an important holiday so there are lots of squeleton art things everywhere. You can also buy cute little little sculptures made from pop cans on the beach.