Wax people

Days in Mexico:  212

This past week has been eventful and slightly strange.
After coming home in the early hours of Monday morning, I caught up on some much-needed sleep that I didn't get over the weekend.

Tuesday I arrived at school and it was my form teacher's birthday. No one mentioned anything to him at the beginning of the day but during the first class we decorated the class to surprise him in the second class which he taught.

La Salle 5D

That afternoon there was a message sent from the Governor of the state of Veracruz saying that there would be no school the next day for everyone in the state because there was a tropical cyclone off the coast. Wednesday was a slightly cloudy day but I didn't see any rain or any cyclone. It was Ryan's birthday (the exchange student from the US) so we decided to celebrate by going out for lunch. Nearly everyone went and we had a really great time!

Exchange students of Veracruz

Saturday afternoon Jazmín and Papá had Scouts so Mamá, Roberto and I went to the 'Museo de Cera' which is the museum of wax figures. There were Mexican and World icons like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as past presidents, artists and movie characters. I took heaps of photos, but here are some of my favourite.

Frida and Diego

Latin American singers

Paul McCartney and John Lennon

Erin Harrison and George Harrison

Beethoven and Mozart

Gandhi and Roberto

Wax figures of Jesus and Mary

Superman

Gollum from 'Lord of the Rings'

Snow White and the seven dwarfs 

A werewolf

In the same plaza there was a mirror maze and a rotating tunnel that makes you feel really dizzy! So we went and have

In the mirror maze

The tunnel

In the afternoon we went out to have an ice drink called 'raspados.' Firstly ice is shaven off a big block and shaken between two plastic cups to create a mound of ice in the centre of one of the cups. Then you pick what flavour syrup you want to add over the top of the ice. I picked strawberry which had halved strawberries in it. Lechera (condensed milk) is poured over the top and wafer biscuits added as well as a straw.

The cup of ice before it was shaken

The final delicious product

A while ago, Jazmín and Roberto saw the pets in my house on Skype and decided that they wanted one. So on Sunday after lots of pleading, we went to the pet shop and got a baby guinea pig. There were lots of animals at the store including rabbits, birds, dogs, fish, mice and some unusual animals like lizards, snakes and spiders. Originally Jazmín wanted to call the new guinea pig 'trees,' but mamá talked her out of it. So then she said 'Mil' as a name, and I said that it was short for Milly, so now we have a pet guinea pig called Milly. She is so small that she can fit in the palm of my hand!

Snakes at the pet store

Milly the guinea pig