New Resolutions

I just realized it has been a week since I last posted an entry in this blog. It's not that time is flying by or anything or that I'm incredibly busy. I seem to have just not had it become part of my routine. TIME FOR RESOLUTIONS. So I decided this morning that each day I would take on 2 challenges, one having to do with using spanish and one having to do with photography. AND that I would make a blog entry every day even if it's only a sentence or two.

So today's challenges were: 1. Go to visit Sr. Gabriel Horner at the Museo de la Ciudad to see about having an exposition of my photography, and 2. Go to el mercado to find all the things I need to make a nice welcome dinner for Marty and Bill who arrive Friday.

Now #1. could have served as two challenges, the photography one and the spanish one because, of course, I had to speak with Sr. Horner in spanish. However, at one point when I really couldn't understand what he was saying he filled in with his english. He liked my work, and it looks like I will have an exhibit (called exposition here) in March!

#2 was fairly easy. You don't really need to know that many words to buy vegetables and fruits. However, at one point I was asking about some unusual looking beans -- if you cooked them like other beans. A very nice woman started telling me how to cook them, in seemingly great detail. However, I couldn't really understand what the heck she was saying. The gist was, I think, you cook them like regular beans but they're better if you add some jitomate.

I was going to venture out to a movie tonight, a German movie with spanish subtitles (part of a film festival), but it started to rain and I was pretty tired. The other challenge I had today that I had not chosen was talking with Citizens Bank about the fact that my PIN doesn't seem to work on my replacement card. Endless problems with them.