Saturday, January 22, 2011—Today

The weekend was pretty low-key. I made arroz con leche on Saturday. The first batch was an epic failure! I decided to combine several recipes and all of them called for about 100-150 grams of sugar, which is more or less half a cup (I think!). But half a cup was WAY too much; it was so sweet…too sweet! I added some more milk to try to thin it out (because it was really thick too) and I thought it might help the sweetness a bit, but no, it didn’t. So then, I did the completely wrong thing of starting to add salt to even out the flavor. Unfortunately, it was too much, of course! I had Gunita and Will try it and they both said it wasn’t good. Gunita suggested just starting over…so I did. The second batch was a success…very tasty—I added only several pinches of sugar!

Yesterday (Sunday) I was rather lazy…I did some laundry and we went and watched the soccer game at the tetería. After the game sang some karaoke on the PlayStation they had there! It was fun! We traded off songs in Spanish and English. I was terrible at the Spanish ones though…but I tried!

Oh my gosh, today was SUPER cold! It might have been like one or two degrees; and that makes for freezing walking from place to place! We finished talking about MLK Jr. in 6C. In 2B, we learned the phrase “do you like…” “yes, I do” “no I don’t”. I asked each one a question and then they all asked me questions. In 3B and 3A, I sat there, like usual, because they were rowdy.

I had an English lesson at four o’clock with Juan Antonio. We reviewed his English and then some of his Science, in which he has an exam tomorrow. Afterwards we had café con leche and homemade bizcocho…it was yummy! Their mom, Emi, was like “here, take another piece for breakfast tomorrow!” me: “vaaale”. I have absolutely no plans to go anywhere in this freezing cold, so it’ll be another quiet night!

Xoxo,

Court