Numero uno: I will miss mi familia the most. I will all of them and the fun we have together! I will miss all of our crazy, random adventures and I will miss the nights where we just sat and watched tv together. I will miss going to our store and watching the busy street and I will miss making pie crust and laughing at jokes that I hardly understand. I'll miss mi familia's patience with me as they repeat muy despacio words that they've said to me in attempt to help me understand. I'm definitely going to miss their nicknames for me too. I've learned to answer to 'Paigetable' and Roman's favorite... 'Paige One' or Two or Three ha ha but most of all I'll just spending time miss them!
Numero dos: Mis amigos. My fellow teachers are the greatest! We went from having no idea who the others were... to being best friends and literally spending everyday together. We'll for sure still see each other once we get back... but not all day everyday! and I will miss them!
and going along with mis amigos... is the Color Code! I will miss how basically all of our conversations lead to this code... and how learning about the code has helped us to all get along better. We understand each other because we understand the colors and we've had lots of fun joking about the colors too!
Numero tres: Mi niños. I love them all! they are so hilarious and so entertaining, and I can't believe that I will probably never see them again. Except the other day, I was walking and I heard a 'teacher, teacher!' so I turned around and guess who it was... Martin! My favorite Discovery student! It made me so happy and even happier that he was so excited to see me too! Hooray for little Mexican children being so darn adorable!!
Numero cuatro: So far I'm only missing people... but now it's places. I will definitely miss just wandering around Tehuacan! There are so many cool things to do and places to see in this town of mine and I will miss discovering them. The other day I was bored, and Maria wasn't home, so I decided to go out on my own. I wandered the city for about three and a half hours by myself and ended up seeing an awesome HUGE market, a really cool long park and some neat old houses! It was a great day!
Numero cinco: Not only will I miss Tehuacan, but I'll miss Mexico in general. I have loved traveling around Mexico to beautiful, and magic cities! In my time here in Mexico I feel like I've traveled all over the world and stared in many different movies! Zacatlan was like Disneyland, much better, but still very similar. The caves near Taxco were like a Star Wars movie, and I also sort of felt like I was journeying to the center of the earth. The lovely nunnery was like Austria where 'the hills are alive, with the sound of music.' Those sweet nuns also made me feel like I was living in Nacho Libre, with their basketball skills and serving us toast.
and one thing about Mexico that I will not forget is the gas trucks! they crack me up with that tune that is always being played, and the gas man yelling 'GAAAASS!' and everywhere I've gone... there he is! The gas man in Tehuacan, Puebla... everywhere and always that same tune!
Numero seis: Zumba classes. I will miss my morning zumba classes with Kelly and Megan! It was the best when we went to Memo for zumba cause he was hilarious and such a great teacher, but our new classes at the Muscle Factory have been pretty great too... I will miss those classes once I get home, and miss the hilarious jingly butt things they hand out for the belly dancing classes... I guess I should buy one before I leave so I can wear it and have a good laugh! and speaking of Memo... I saw him the other day as I was walking around town I just happen to glance up as a combi was driving past and he was sitting in the front seat and looked super happy to see me so I waved and he waved back!
Numero siete: I'll miss not knowing where I'm going, but ending up having a great time anyhow! I never really know where mi familia is going, but they ask if I want to come and I always say yes. A favorite place where we've ended up going a few times is this HUGE and awesome park! We go there with Roman and Regina and we play on the jungle gym, play volleyball, ride bikes, climb trees and just have a grand time!
Numero ocho: I'll miss the OXXO. the OXXO is basically America as a gas station. I won't forget the first time we discovered OXXO... I felt at home in a gas station! there were Kit Kats, chewy Jolly Ranchers, delicious Pay de Limon and all sorts of other Americanish foods and drinks... it was clean and nice and awesome! and then... an OXXO was built right by my house! It took about a week to be constructed and filled with deliciousness and now Maria and I visit all the time! Mexico probably wouldn't be the same without the continuous appearance of an OXXO.
Numero nueve: voy a la iglesia. I'll miss going to church in Tehuacan. My ward here is great and all the members are so amazing and welcoming! I've always known that the church is true, I've never had any doubts, but it has been really good for me to experience the church in a new place and in a whole new language. Because it is the same everywhere! It's brilliant to witness that no matter where I go, I can always find a church and learn the same truths as I would in my home ward in Bountiful, Utah.
Yesterday was stake temple day, so we ventured out on a bus for a few hours to the closest temple in Oaxaca (about 3 hours away, unless your bus breaks down... then it's 6). and now I feel like I finally know what it's like for people who don't live in Utah, who don't live five minutes away from a temple. I appreciated yesterdays temple trip much more than I had ever appreciated previous temple trips, because I saw how happy the people were to be going. and then when we finally arrived at the temple I remembered how much I missed seeing the Bountiful Temple every morning and it made the trip all the better because the Oaxaca Temple was beautiful and I was so excited to be there!
and finally... numero diez: I'll miss teaching mi familia new things. Such as peanut butter being a necessity. Peanut butter makes everything better; apples, sandwiches, crackers, anything really can be more delicious if you just add a little peanut butter. at first it was 'mi culpa' but I've rubbed off and Aimee now loves pb! another great one that Maria's learned to love is nutella and bananas. one of our favorite treats is a nutella and banana sandwich! yummy! 'Wow,' 'oh my goodness,' 'sure,' and 'yummy' are now common phrases around our house and they only sometimes mock me for things that I say ha ha
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