Foreigner in the midst

It's hard to blend into a small, completely different culture with my abysmal Spanish language skills. Yes, I've been doing Spanish-Word-A-Day and practicing from my old phrase book but it's like being in Australia where some of the words are familiar but I have no clue what's going on...a fish out of water in more ways than one.

What?!! How can Alisa find enough people during the day to play soccer with for a couple of hours? Doesn't anyone work? Yes, of course, but they have time to play too!! If running around for two hours in the hot sun is considered play.












So, if it Wednesday, it must be soccer but if it's Tuesday or Thursday, it's ping pong at the Municipal Center.










And, of course, we need to make time for guitar practice.









Today, we made and did a lot of quality-control testing/eating of daifuku (Japanese sweet bean rice ball with red bean filling. Yum!




















Alisa and Guillermo's garden is doing really well considering it is in the middle of the woods, a prime feeding ground for all the wandering beasts. But, they've done a good job camouflaging it.