OoO México, It sounds so simple I just got to go, The sun's so hot I forgot to go home

Ever seen the movie “Nacho Libre”? Well, neither have I, but I have now officially experienced the Lucha Libre in person!! Definitely an experience. The Lucha Libre is kind of like WWE wrestling where men in ridiculous outfits and masks get up in a ring and pretend to beat each other up until there is one team standing. But, the fight does not just stay within the ring if a man falls out of the ring the audience has better be ready for a 200+ man to come projectiling out of ring and into the audience at the man down. Meanwhile the audience is yelling everything and anything they can think of, mainly bad words in Spanish, at the wrestlers. The audience members can throw up any bad hand gesture they want as well and lots of times the wrestler will do it right back to the crazy audience member. The best part was at the end in the “showcase” when the two final guys ventured their fight into the audience and this angry grandmother decided to get involved. She took her big heavy purse and started beating one of the wrestlers. It was great!

Us with the famouso abuelo.

On lunes, we went to this awesome mass, if we go again next week I am for sure bringing a camera because it looks like the Mexican culture you think of in movies. There is so many people there we were standing literally outside of the church. They have huge speakers outside just for that reason, so it is a common thing for Monday night masses to be over packed. After mass there are a ton of vendors outside with all kinds of food, jewelry, and small hand crafted items to be purchased. We had this really good yogurt, fruta, and granola parfait. Court and I like to get fruit whenever possible because we are not a huge fan of the rare fruits we occasionally get fed at home like papaya and this colorful fruit that looks like a brain inside. No me gusta!

This week we got to explore el centro de Guadalajara a little more! We went to this market called San Juan, its kind of like the Canal Street in New York, where they have some illegal cheap items from los Estados Unidos, por ejempo: I got a couple movies like Shrek the Final Chapter of DVD for 10 pesos so less than a dollar!! I also got a couple gifts for the siblings. Ha apparently that is always expected when I travel away from them! We also went to this street where they only sell jewelry, store after store of nice jewelry. Maris told us it is common for people from the U.S. to come down and purchase jewelry here then bring it back to the U.S. and crank up the prices. In el centro we tried some typical dulces (sweets), I was not a big fan, Maris officially thinks I am the pickiest eater ever and she has learned the word interesante in my book does not mean I like it. But, I did like the papas con salsa, lime (of course) and salt.

Cuchapeta’s (Maris and her primos restaurante) moved locations to this bigger, cooler place, so we all spent the day there yesterday. It was a lot of fun and we knew a lot of people there! I enjoyed a Corona with my senora as well so that was funny. And, of course the world cup was on the TV all day at the restaurante. It is hilarious how important and how big of a deal this whole World Cup thing is here. Our management teacher, Jose, is an ITESO teacher, but we were supposed to have class during the game on Tuesday. Of course this was not an option so class was let out early to watch the game with everyone else. Mexico plays Argentina tomorrow though, which is not gonna be promising, but don’t worry that has not put any spirits down nor has any national pride even come close to diming down. Everyone still wears his or her México jerseys and face paint. You see the Mexican flag hung everywhere and painted cars roaring down the street honking and cheering before and after every game.

Va México!

Well, it looks like it might be time to start getting ready to leave for Lake Chapala, Mexico’s biggest lake. We were supposed to leave at 3 but of course like everything here we will be leaving un poco mas tarde. JAJA Our senora’s sister has a place up there so we are going up with 2 of her sisters and a bunch of primos!!

o and no garlic necessario I got some amazing "Gel homeopático calendula flores de bach" the stuff works magic on reducing the swelling!