Nataly’s entry - First couple days in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

 Today is July 5, 2012 and I want to tell you about some of the pictures I took. Today I made a flower and a butterfly made out of tissue paper. It was fun to make and easy.

  I made it in summer camp. Today was my first day of summer camp in San Miguel. We made a clown also out of tissue paper. I’m learning spanish there. An example is – “a la izquierda” means to the left.

Another interesting thing is that every night there is a man who comes to the corner outside our house. He sells corn, and a boy, probably his son, walks along with him. At first we thought he was looking for a dog or a child because he was calling something. But it turned out he was calling elote” (corn) in spanish. Today my mom went out and asked he was selling. She said “Que vende?” and we bought some corn and he put on mayonnaise and some sprinkled cheese with some sort of seasoning that’s the color red (hot sauce). My Dad and mom tried it and said it was good.

Here it rains every afternoon. And sometimes we get drenched. But we dry out in about 5 minutes. It rains in the middle of our house cause we have a garden in the middle of our house that connects everything. There’s a fountain that lights up.

July 9,
Yesterday we went to a festival at a place called El Charco de Ingenio. Its a arboretum.  The festival was about giving thanks to the garden.  There were big people there, about an inch (just kidding!). They were made out of cloth and huge paper machie masks. People were inside them. And one of the man's arms fell off and it was funny!  They were really rocking out. The music was trumpets, shakers, and drums. At first it was very loud. 

There was a different group of dancers.  The dancers were wearing feather costumes. On their legs they were wearing shakers.  In the middle were 2 big men who were playing drums.