March 24, 2008

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A Tree Grows in Mazatlán

  I am reading (it is amazing to me that I hadn’t read it before) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. It is a wonderful book, set in Brooklyn in the early 1900’s. I am loving it. The tree referred to in the title is one they called the Tree of Heaven. It grew in the worst possible soil and was the only tree that would even grow out of cement. I think México has a number of...

Semana Santa at the Beach

Semana Santa at the beach is a pretty amazing adventure. People watching is the order of the day. We arrived at our favorite palapa restaurant around 11 and the beach was more busy than usual. But by 2 pm, it was packed.   The beach vendors were out in force…here are mangos on a stick. …and ice cream… …and pastries… The lifeguards were keeping an eye on everything… …while Paul and Jessica shared a meal of grilled fish… Some people...

What a fine week

We had such a wonderful time with family visiting last week. I am still a bit tired but I was sorting through photos and I thought I’d share a few of them- at the top, Adam and Martha being funny…     Paul is happy.   Pig head.   Phil and Jen in Maz!   Owen and Erica with Señor Frog.   Erica boogie-boarding.   Everyone having fun.   The van heads back North to Washington! So that’s a quickie...

Learning Spanish in the real world

Paul and I are really working hard at learning Spanish. We are taking lessons from Hector – and the reason we chose him is that everyone we spoke to said that he was hard but that if you really wanted to learn Spanish, he was the teacher to choose. The thing we want to learn is to communicate verbally…to really be able to talk to people. In class we basically translate sentences in the various tenses for an hour and...