El Centro de San Luis Potosi

Today is the first full day that we are in Mexico! We started the day by going to church. The church started at 8:30 and we arrived late last night so my mom said we could sleep in and go to church 30 minutes late. I was nervous to go to church because I didn’t know if I would be able to understand anything. But we had luck on our side because when we got to church a lady came up to us and she said “Do you guys speak English?” They were a family from Idaho that was  living in San Luis Potosi. There was a boy that was 14 years old. It was good to have somebody else there that could speak really good English. In class the teacher didn’t speak any English. But when we watched a video or read a story we would read it in Spanish and then in English. I understood more of what was happening in Spanish though than I had expected to. After church, we called an Uber to come pick us up. We have to take 2 Ubers because our family is really big. The girls’ uber arrived right away but our Uber took forever. It took her 20 minutes to come pick us up when on the map it said that she was 5 minutes away. And then when we were driving to our house, she drove in circles. It turned out that she had only been driving for Uber for 3 days. The worst part is that my dad had the keys so the girls were locked out of the house.

at church

After church, we had some time to ourselves. We ate pasta and played a lot of cards. In San Luis Potosi, everybody wears pants or the girls wear dresses. So only the boys changed out of their church clothes. My dad called our host, Marco, at 2:30 to come pick us up. We went around the city. We saw plazas and churches. I thought that the churches looked like they could be from the movie Nacho Libre. 

Templo del Carmen

inside the Catedral in the Plaza de Armas

We said we were hot and thirsty so we got “aguas frescas” or like cold drinks. Everybody in my family got this drink called Horchata. It was alright. It’s a hard to describe the taste but my mom likes it a lot. In Mexico, they have something called “La comida." It literally means the meal or the food. It is the main meal of the day. It is eaten normally between 2-4. But because we had eaten lunch already at noon and we were out in the city, we didn’t eat until 5.  Marco’s son, Ernesto, was complaining a lot that he was hungry because he is used to eating at 2-4. On the menu at the place that we were eating there was “Escamoles”. These are ant larvae. Ernesto said that he was going to order them but then he didn’t. The food was really good. We returned to our house at about 7:30.

At la comida/dinner

Tomorrow since my dad has his conference, we are on our own. I don’t know exactly what we are doing but I think that my mom has a plan. I am really tired because last night we got in late. Oh, what is really nice here is that San Luis Potosi is in the same time zone as Wisconsin. So unlike China, we are not suffering from Jet Lag.

¡Adios!