Class and Market

La Biblioteca



Some photos to add about previous descriptions of two daily events this week: Max and Kaya's class in the library and the market. Mrket pix are dark. K is going to miss her curso this next week. Everyday has been something different. I usually stay the first five min. with her to see what's going to happen. Today, the teacher poured out a bunch of cute little handmade creatures from a box onto each group's table (made with painted cigarette cartons, kleenex boxes, toilet paper rolls, etc -made from a previous curso). She gave each group a piece of paper and they took turns writing a sentence of a story they were all creating about their animals. When I left, the story was: "El Conejo Y Sus amigos- Habia una vez una rana que no tenia un ojo (indeed, it didn't). Se fue en el bosque........ " For the second class that Max comes into, she helps him a lot. He seems to enjoy it as much as she. It is a very cute group of kids.
Picture of kids on the computer is the teacher (Milli) using photo booth on her mac and kids distorting their faces (all you can see is her hand coming through the laughing kids). Ani is the laughing teacher with Kaya- she's very good with a rather large group of kids (20 something)


El Mercado

And for the market- it's just as much about the orgy of smells as it is about the visuals. The chicken section is simply a row of the identical chickens and all their parts. The fish aisle is a little more diverse but haven't wanted to get fish simply because it's a haul to the sea from here and not sure about freshness. The other two stalls in the photos are chiles and chapulines (with the blue-smocked vendor. These look like small chiles but they're really the yummy, (apparently lead-filled) fried crickets. There are many textures, sizes and flavors to choose from: salted, crunchy, soft, spicy, large, sweet...... Haven't done this yet. Not really too keen to do so. Will bring some home for my more daring family members (Charlie's stocking, maybe.....)
The second market across the street (last photo) is only aisles and aisles of little counters and stools offering typical Oaxacan food- like a taqeria but more pizazz.
Buenos Noches.