beet juice

Part of June 9, 2008 letter

so this is what happend this week
one day for lunch we had "salad" it consisted of cut up tomatoes cilantro and chicharon. thats it nothing else. and for a drink we had beet juice. it was discusting but i had to eat it. so the people here are really straight forward. they tell it how it is. if you are fat tyhey call you gordito o gordo. stuff like that. also something interesting is that aloty of people here listen to american music. they have no idea what the song says but they like it anyway. so something kind of weird and kind of confusing happend on sat. some lady proposed to me for her daughter who is 11 years old. i think she was joking but i cant really understand spanish sarcasm yet. it was weird.

yesterday we had two more baptisms. it was awesome. carlos and lupita. carlos is the uncle of ximena who we baptized last week. and lupita is her grandma. i baptized lupita and elder bentancourt baptized carlos. it was a really cool event.

it has rained everyday for the last 5 o 6 days. on wed i got sick so we went to the appartment early. and it started to rain really hard like 30 min later. the water was coming under our door and from the walls and the floor. it is crazy.