Rockclimbing

What an exciting weekend! Saturday evening I went to another soccer game. Leon won! Even though I cannot stand to watch soccer on tv, in person it is very different. Especially when you factor in crazy soccer fans.

Sunday I went rockclimbing with one of my students, another teacher, and their friend. It was a lot of fun! We went rockclimbing on the outskirts of Guanajuato. Our location overlooked the charming town and you could see for miles. The only downside was that we didn't have the special rockclimbing shoes in my size, so I had to use my tennis shoes! This is a definite disadvantage, and makes climbing some rocks impossible, but I was able to scale two. Next time...

Later Sunday I watched the Superbowl with some students at a bar. Of course the commentary was in Spanish and the commercials were different, but we had a really good time. Afterwards we went to the hamburger stand that the uncle of one of my student's owns. My first Mexican hamburger! It was funny - I ordered the "hamburguesa americana" of course. (The only thing that made it American was bacon). It was very good! They add lots of chiles to spice it up, too.

Another Mexican specialty I tried is called Michelada. It is a mixed drink of beer, lime juice, salt, tomato juice, and salsa. Weird - I know - but they love it here! You can actually get different flavors on top of that. I tried one with clam juice because that's what everyone else ordered, and I thought it was disgusting. Maybe I'll give a different flavor a second try...

I can't believe the Olympics start on Friday! I had no idea and it seems neither do most Mexicans. Maybe that's because they have 1 athlete competing and the USA has 216?