La Huacana

Like I said in the previous post, I woke up and felt great. I guess something inside myself changed overnight and I was able to just take everything in and was ready to experience this country! The first thing I did when I woke up was look around at the house and see it in the daylight. It looked much different and there were palm trees and flowered plants everywhere! It was beautiful! The next thing I did was take a shower...this was an interesting experience. There is running water at the house but there is no hot water so Doña Sofia boiled water for me on the stove and poured it into a large plastic bucket. The shower only had a curtain and was "outside." I got into the shower and had to take water and pour it over me from a cup, needless to say this proved itself difficult when washing out my hair, not to mention that I was so paranoid the curtain would blow open that I had one hand on it at all times =0) ! After this interesting experience, we ate some breakfast. We had chocolaté with pan dulce (sweet bread). You dip the pan into the chocolaté , it was very delicious. I have had similar things at Ulises's house in the US before though so it wasn't too surprising. The bread did taste way better though! Everything is fresh!
After breakfast we just hung around the house because we were tired and we were unpacking and things. I was slightly disappointed because I was so anxious to look around the town. We ended up leaving the house eventually to go to the store on the corner (the one that is apart of his house) and got some snacks. We went over to a family friend's house and got Popsicles. I got a vanilla one; they are made with milk and are all homemade. It was delicious (of course at the time I wasn't even thinking that they had water in them as well and I wasn't supposed to drink the water!) I also got incognito doritos, which are a flavor only available in Mexico, they were the best flavor I have ever had! The chips and sodas taste way different there too, the chips are made with a different blend of corn and all of the factories that make them are in Mexico so the chips are fresh. The cokes are made with a more pure form of sugar and so they are less carbonated and taste way way better than the ones here. We didn't get to try anything else that was too different yet because we were all trying to ease into the change in food. They told me if I started eating too much that I would be sick. The first picture is of the lot that his house is on. The house that is actually pictured in the corner is where the woman and her daughter stay as well as where the convenience store is. The next picture is of the courtyard to the house.