Weekends are more fun

This weekend we had a special treat with our family...fungus! There is a mushroom that grows on corn that is considered quite the delicacy in Mexico. One of Jose-Luis´friends gave him a big bag of them so we had 12 people for a big almuerzo! They cooked the mushroom with chiles, onions, and the little bit of corn that had not been taken over by the mushroom and it turned into an extremely appetizing black paste. They put that mixture into tortilla maza and fried it to make empanadas. Then we had a huge meal! It was a great cultural experience.

On Sunday, we got a ride with Anna´s friend Ananda to Monterrey for a Manu Chau concert. We got to see a lot of young people and met our friend Oscar who had led the ecology club to El Chuzo last weekend. The concert was in a gorgeous outdoor park called Huayasca(?). It was a small valley surrounded by beautiful mountains. Very sacred. We found vegetarian tortas which were pretty good. Manu Chau is associated with the Zapatista movement and has a very positive message. He obviously enjoys performing and has an incredible amount of energy. Kind of like a ska-ish Bob Marley.

Everything´s going well at El Chuzo. There´s another group of kids coming this weekend so we´re getting ready for that. There is also supposed to be a Japanese WWOOFer coming but his imperfect English is not understanding the imperfect English on the website so we´re keeping our fingers crossed for him to make it. Bria got her foot stepped on by two pigs today: once while feeding maiz to the pigs and again when she and Dave were carrying a piece of bamboo (get it! Dave´s a pig! ha ha!). The bamboo was part of their water filtration system but it wasn´t sucking up enough grease so they have to change it. Dave also learned how to speak in past tense so he no longer says things like... last weekend at fire i sing bob marley and nobody knows words. We forgot our camera tonight so hopefully we will bring it next time and it will work.