Day 11: Clean Clothes and Echoes... And Yet Another Picture of Me in Front of a Bell Tower

8:30 pm

Happy July, everyone!

Today was kind of a day off-- this morning I woke up a little later than usual and washed all my clothes by hand and hung them up on the line! I know that probably doesn't sound very exciting, but it was at least out of the ordinary and actually kind of fun. Again, something straight out of Hemingway. Do you like my "apron?" hehe (It's just a towel clothespinned around my waist.)


I know you guys are probably getting tired of seeing pictures of me in front of bell towers, but I like them because they are just so unusual and so typical of this area of Mexico. This picture is from this afternoon, when we went to visit "Bellas Artes," an art school in San Miguel de Allende. The art school itself was closed because of the weekend, but it was still a beautiful building and so we walked around for a while. There was one entire room-- a huge stone room-- that was painted in geometric designs and patterns. The room was so big and empty besides the pictures that it echoed whenever we spoke or moved.

This afternoon was more down time. I found this book called Sabine's Notebook in our apartment, and I read it today. (Have you ever heard of Griffin and Sabine?) It was one of those grown-up pop-up books, with postcards and letters on the inside that had to actually be opened and taken out to be read... Do you know what I mean? I think there is a famous children's book that is like that. I really enjoyed the quirkiness of that book-- I think it may be one of my new favorites. Here is a really cute and really famous picture from it's prequel, Griffin and Sabine. Abbie, I think you especially will enjoy this picture.

After I read that book, I was inspired to begin work on my own scrapbook of my month in San Miguel de Allende. It´s coming along great!

I saw my four little friends again today; they stood at the gate to my apartment complex yelling, "YESAAAAAA!!!" at the tops of their little lungs, so I went outside to talk to them for a little while. There was a birthday party for one of the babies on the street today, so they came by to tell me that they couldn't play today. They are so adorable!

By the way, the movie Nicotina was really, really weird. I kind of liked it, just because I like weird movies, but it's definitely not for the faint of heart or stomach. We forgot to get a copy with subtitles, though, so we all were helping each other understand and we were all learning Spanish as we watched. Diego Luna was, of course, adorable, though he was a little bit creepy and scary in this particular movie... Tonight we are all getting together to have a "guacamole night" over at the apartment. It should be fun.

God bless you, everyone! Take a look at this picture...

With love from "Esprite Sin Hielo!" jejeje