Friday, January 9, 2009

Magical Realism Continued

1) At approximately 10:45am on December 22nd, I became the proud Godmother of a brand new dental chair at the Health Center. My first Godchild ever, I was so proud! It looked so cute sitting there next to all of the drills and tooth-picker things the dentists use!! After sprinkling holy water on the chair with a rose, I posed for pictures with my new Godchild.

2) The same day, around 4pm I attended the first party ever that I actually got locked into. Yes, locked in. It was the primary school´s graduation party, and the principal wanted everyone to stay and keep drinking and dancing. By this point all of the kids (who the party was supposedly for) got bored watching drunk adults slur and dance, and had left. So, to keep us party people captive the principal locked the doors. No leaving. Well, I finally managed to convince Juan (my host brother and incidentally the school handy-man) to open the door for me. Upon opening the door a crack to let me out, a flock of mothers also pining to leave were seen running up behind me to escape, like iron filaments to a magnet. Juan pushed me though and quickly slammed the door shut. Commotion could be heard on the other side of the door, as none of the other mothers managed to escape with me!

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