San ¨Pedro de los Cantarros (indigenous community)

Wow, so many days have passed since I last posted. But the majority of those days have been filled with a weekend visit to an Mixteco Indigenous community. This was really cool because we got to participate in Tequio, a community work expectation, building a greenhouse! Also, we got to see a lot of the ways that they live, and do agriculture. Seriously, they live at one with nature. They are surrounded by the food that they eat. They grow corn, squash, beans, and a few other things, in the form called milpa, where they are grown in alternate rows. I think it's better for the ground, and they complement each other. (Dad, you might know more how that works?). Also, they have done a lot of reforestation, have made trenches to catch water and irrigate, make cement things to catch rain water so that they have enough water for the dry season (7 months), and of course green houses. Everthing is organic, or with homemade pesticides so it's healthy, and totally sustainable. Everything we ate there was homemade, and the food homegrown, and from right there by the house. Handmade corn tortillas with FRESHLY picked corn. Seriously, I swear it tasted better.
So we were there from Friday, till Sunday. Then I was mostly dead. The next day we had only Spanish. The grammar part of it is kinda killing me. I haven't learned much of all this subjunctive stuff, so it's really good to over it, and my professor is a great teacher, but it just kinda fries my mind. But that afternoon, we didn't have our thematic seminar class, so I got a bit of a break, and that evening, a group of us went to see a movie at the movie theater. Called Arráncame La Vida. A Mexican movie, originally in Spanish. I actually understood a lot of it. That was kinda exciting. And a very good movie. I'd suggest everyone to see it. But then I left my water bottle there. :(
And then today after Spanish class, a few of us went to get some icecream. Well it was actually this flavored icee stuff. And I tried Rose icecream. I thought it would be like heaven. In reality, it tasted like pink. That's the best way I can explain it. They had a lot of interesting, different flavors, including like Mescal (Oaxacan alcoholic drink made from cactus), and Tequila, etc.
Speaking of food, I've also gotten more used to eating tortillas and picante with nearly everything I eat. Ok, so I think that's about what I've done over the past few days. Oh yeah, and last week I also saw this really weird, kinda freaky free international movie (i think made in Denmark, but in English), called The Element of Crime. Any of you film majors, I'd suggest you'd check it out. I think you'd enjoy it.