Cosas grandes de la semana: 23 de Febrero

Second week of classes is over. I'm starting to get a little more a custom to my new schedule. Nothing real big happened on Monday...besides classes I went to El Cuartito which is a little cafe which has internet and some good food and coffee. Usually there is live music by an acoustic group that plays Goo Goo Dolls and Coldplay and other fun groups like that, last week they were really good but I guess they didn't show up this time because there wasn't enough people :(
Tuesday I had my volunteer work for the second time at the orphange, since it was only my second time I didn't really know what to expect. But it was a blast! We played a game called "Pica Pica" outdoors on the court outside. We played this particular game in celebration of Marti Gras. All of the kids had either bags of confetti (pica pica) or casterones (hallowed out eggs filled with confetti). There really was no point to the game other than to take hand fulls of confetti and rub it in people's hair or to my personal favorite, taking the castorones and smashing them on people's heads! I had to bend over for some of the kids so that they could break them on mine haha but others who were tall enough or had a good vertical jump surprised me and broke them on my head anyway! Walking on the way home there was a huge celebration in the park. It was the one year anniversary of the SuperChivos in Central Park, which is the Xela soccer team. I finally bought a jersey! We stopped and watched for a bit and watched and then I went home to eat dinner.
Wednesday
After a long day of classes I thought that I was just going to go out salsa dancing like I usually do on Wednesday nights but right towards the end of my classes at Celas I found out there was a SuperChivos home game! I was really surprised because I thought that all of the games were on weekends and our group has already missed a bunch of them because of traveling. So a bunch of us went to the game right after class (which ended at 7:00pm). It was a smaller game because they were playing a team in the minor division instead of the major division, but it was still fun. I ate a Cheverre off the street (its a hot dog, kinda like dome dog with mayo ketchup, picante sauce-spicy sauce, and mustard oh and it usually has cabbage but I decided to skip out on the cabbage because it was sketchy lookin) :) I think my weak stomach has actually gotten a lot of stronger since being here! We ended up winning the game 1-0! It was funny there was about 12 of us gringos, all decked out in our SuperChivos jerseys. Afterwards a couple of us went to La Rumba just for a little bit to hang out.