Mexico fact and quotes

There is a more serious post to come later, but here is the lighter side of our trip :)

• Mexican vanilla is far superior to any other vanilla (and way cheaper as well) :)

• Roosters really crow at sunrise. And not just then either. Really they crow all day.
• "I don't know what that is on my plate, but it just jumped." - Logan Koontz
• Everything is very brightly colored. Say goodbye to dully colored houses when you cross the border and welcome the hot pinks and sky blues (with a very brightly colored orange sprinkled here and there).
• "Hasta Manaña" - Efrain, one of the kids at our VBS on the last day. I explained to him that we would be returning to the US the next day, so there would be no VBS, but still as he walked into his house he still called out "hasta manaña" to us.

this is me with Efrain and his cousin Thelma

• It can rain in the desert. It can also go from 80 degrees to 40 degrees in a matter of hours because of the rain.
• There is no such thing as OSHA.

very safe

• "We almost didn't make it!" - me, at the bucket list summit (how ironic)
• As soon as you cross the border, you can tell you are not in Kansas anymore...or Texas in our case (especially since Kansas does not share a border with Mexico).
• Just because you speak with a Mexican accent doesn't mean you speak Spanish...
• There are no driving rules. On our last day there I was driving down an un-striped highway and yes, I just drove in the middle of the rode. Also going 120kph in an 80kph zone is perfectly acceptable.
• Duck, Duck, Goose, or Pato, Pato, Ganzo is very popular across the border.

• You can run out of water. Girls were taking showers and the water just stopped. Also if you get a hot shower you are very lucky.
• You can't flush toilet paper (same as China)
• "Aunque no marche..." - Everyone, but especially Katie
• There is only 1 gas station - the Oxxo - and they have great coffee and Manzana (said in my Mexican accent!)
• Everyone, and I mean everyone, can cook good rice, beans, tacos and tamales. It is probably a requirement of being Mexican.
• They have advertisements (just like the US) to live without drugs (vive sin drogas!).

Adios!

Or maybe "hasta luego" is more appropriate because I'm not leaving for good, but only for a week.

¿Why? (¿por que? I'm promise not to do this the whole post...)

Because...porque...

Estoy yendo a Mexico! (or I'm going to Mexico)

That's why I won't be here. But be prepared when I get back (Friday, March 19) for lots of pictures and stories.

70ish of us from CBC are going are going to partner with a local church across the border, and I'm really excited to see how Father is going to use me and our team during our time overseas.

During our time there we will be painting the church in the morning and in the afternoon we'll be holding a VBS, or EBV en espanñol =), for orphans in the city we´ll be in. It's gonna be a great trip, and interesting because I've been practicing mi español and it usually only comes to me in Chinese.

So, you have a week of waiting, followed by lots of posts (there are several things I've been needing to blog about but haven't had time/have been recovering from my school death week). I hope everyone enjoys their spring break and I´ll see y´all in a week!!!