Graduation Day from Chac-Mool Spanish School

Graduates of Chac-Mool Spanish School

After two weeks of studying Spanish we finally graduated. We are with Sofia, the teacher we worked with for most of our lessons.

We know more Spanish than we arrived. We have an understanding of how to use the present, past and future verb tenses.  We just need to practice, practice and practice what we've learned.

Tim and Amy were in our graduating class. They were in the more advanced classes!!

Our classroom, where we spent 5 hours/day.

Pambazo Cooking Class

One of our afternoon school activities was a visit to a local lady for a cooking lesson.  We were given a list of ingredients that needed to be purchased for making pambazos. In late afternoon we met at the cook's house with our ingredients for the cooking lesson.

La cocina - the kitchen

Chorizo y papas cocidas juntos

Pollo, tomates verde, chiles, cebolla

A roll was covered in a tomato paste made from tomatoes and other spices.

The pambazo was fried in oil.

The roll was split open and you chose the toppings you wanted to put inside. Delicioso!

Not a Good Day

We needed to do our laundry after the first week. We packed up our clothes, sheets, and towels and took them to the Lavanderia on Saturday. They told us that we could pick them up Monday afternoon because they were closed Sundays. Probelma grande.  We did not have extra sheets or towels, so we took our landury back to the apartment.

We decided to take a bike tour of Tulum and stop at the Panaderia to buy a loaf of whole wheat bread.  On the way we had an accident.  I stopped my bike and Jane ran into my back tire. She fell off her bike and damaged the left side of her body. Her watch took a licking but kept on ticking. She is ok but very lame.