Bugs and Independence Day

Hermano Alejandro ( the father-figure here) fumigated our rooms, and there are no longer living cockroaches! Actually, there are no longer living bugs. Bugs that I didn't even know were in our house were found dead on our floor. As one of the kids put it a ¨bug cemetary.¨ And because we couldn't mop so that the fumes would really do the job, our rooms got very dirty and.....dead buggy.

September 15 is the Mexican Independence day, so this weekend has been very patriotic. I went with some of the kids to an Independence party at the church and it was very interesting to be the only American at an all Mexican party! There was authentic food, songs and dances.

During the program, someone told a joke about how a chicken died on the U.S.- Mexican boarder, and a Gringo (what they call Americans) and a Mexican decided to have a competition to see who would claim the chicken. Whoever kicked the other person harder would take it. So the Gringo said ¨You go first.¨So the Mexican kicked the Gringo. Then he siad ¨Ok, its my turn to kick you now.¨ And the Mexican said ¨If this is over the chicken....then you can have it!¨

Of course, all the kids that I was sitting with gave me a hard time and oppologized for the joke.