I think we should come home covered in confetti more often.

My friend and fellow YAGM Anneli was kind enough to come to a 5 year old's birthday party with me this weekend. I thought this picture was fantastic and I wanted to share it with you this week. We got covered in confetti, which was annoying at first, but then it suddenly became unbearably funny (mostly because of how much ended up falling down my back and into my pants, I think) and we were scraping it off the table to throw more at each other. 

I haven't been taking a bunch of pictures, since I'm still trying to get know people, and I think whipping out my camera separates me from the action of life, but there are a few new things posted on my flickr, mostly of birthday parties.

I've promised myself I won't feel bad anymore for the times that I don't post, since living my experiences here in Mexico is a higher priority than telling the internet about it. But I'm still sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I've been sick pretty much constantly since the second half of language school, honestly, and the energy drain of a two-month-long low-grade infection is starting to wear on me. Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon, and I can find more time to talk about my experiences.
I wrote a lot in my most recent newsletter about the neighborhood of my main work placement, la estación. It's a fairly closed community, so I'm still trying to navigate the ins and outs of being present in that place. But things are finally starting to come together after this week--I'm getting more coordination with my volunteer English teachers, I recruited a children's art teacher (can you tell I was feeling the need for a little bit of delegation? Planning for and executing 8 different kinds of classes was a little too stressful), and I finally got some information about my responsibilities outside of the English classes, which feels good.
In other good-news news, my stomach seems to have finally settled into the routine of eating Mexican food every day (and I'm also learning which foods I just need to avoid) and so now I just need to kick the sinus infection that's been brewing for the last few weeks. Additionally, I found a fantastic (and thankfully affordable) Zumba class right near downtown and the teacher and her husband have been super friendly and helpful as we try to get to know our new home.
Okay. More news soon.