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Hey everybody! I finally have the chance to write to you. We´ve been so busy lately, but today we have a day off so we can just relax. Today is the holiday called ¨Virgin of Guadalupe¨. I don´t know if you know the story, but apparently the virgin mary´s spirit came to a man in Mexico named Juan Diego in the 1500´s, and it´s a huge tradition and celebration here to remember her. There were parades today and tons of people from the town dressed up in these old traditional indigenous costumes. It was very interesting. They paraded this big painting of the virgin around town. Actually, today concluded that- they´ve been parading her around the streets every morning at 5am since December 1st. They´ve also been lighting off bombs each morning when they do that, so we´re kinda happy that´s all over now so we can get our regular nights sleep back, as interesting as it was. It was fun to see our students in the parade- they just wave at us and seem so excited that we came to watch them. We´ve both really developed some good relationships with some of those kids, even though it was hard at first. It´s really wierd also because some of our worst, most trouble maker students at first turned out to be some of our favorites. Well, we cannot believe that we´ll be home in only 10 days! It´s great too because next week is only a 3 day week for us at school so the time will just fly by. The kids are getting pretty wild at school because they know that Christmas break is coming so soon. Well, that´s about it. We´re just ready to wrap things up and get home =) Part of me is a little worried that I´m going to be so happy and have so much fun when we get to MN so I´m not going to want to leave to come back here. I know Adam will- he loves it here. But there are days when I´m ready for my ¨normal¨ life again. All I know is that this experience has really made me aware of what it´s like to feel like the odd ball in a group. I mean, I really think the biggest thing I´ve gotten out of this is that I know what it feels like to be so different from everyone else. I know it´s a good thing to learn because when we come back I want to help people that feel like that in the US- like Mexicans that move there and don´t know anything about our culture or language. I got really angry the other night when Adam and I went to our favorite taco stand for dinner. We ordered and were waiting for our food and while we were waiting on the sidewalk, we noticed that other mexicans were coming up and ordering and getting there food before us and leaving. It was like since we weren´t like them, we had to just stand there and wait. Normally, in the US I probably would´ve said something, like ¨This isn´t fair, why are you ignoring us?¨ but here I just had to stand there and take it. It wasn´t like it was that big of a deal, we eventually got our food and everything was fine, but it does make you feel small sometimes. Oh well, soon enough- I know that the next semester will go by really quick too. I´m also kinda worried that we´re both going to gain so much weight when we get home- we´ve been talking about how excited we are to be able to order deep dish pizza, get a real steak, and I´ve been dreaming about Baker´s Square French Silk Pie. It´s going to be great!!! Ok, we love you all and will see you very soon!!! Hopefully there won´t be any sudden snow storms when we´re trying to fly back! Love, sarah
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