En casa de Lily // At Lily's

Pasamos la tarde con Lily, su hermanito y su mamá.
We spent the afternoon with Lily, her baby brother and her mom.

Las niñas se divirtieron muchísimo. Hicieron las cosas que más les gustan: disfrazarse, dibujar y bailar.

The girls had a lot of fun. They did the three things they love the most: dressing up, drawing and dancing.

Estamos en Gainesville por el verano. Yo estoy dando una clase de español y trabajando en mi tesis. Diego está trabajando también, aunque el sólo está haciendo trabajo de investigación. Y las niñas están en la escuela. Carmen asiste a un campamento de verano e Isabel a una guardería.

We´re in Gainesville for the summer. I'm teaching a class and I'm working on my dissertation. Diego is also working, but just doing research and the girls are at school. Carmen goes to a summer camp and Isabel to a daycare.

Día del Padre // Father's Day

El día del padre, Ulises y Pilar, unos amigos, nos invitaron a almorzar a un restaurante en Polanco. Nunca había estado por esos rumbos. Había pasado para ir a Satélite, pero nunca había paseado por ahí.


No me sentía en el DF sino en alguna gran ciudad de Estados Unidos. Estuvimos en el parque Lincoln, donde están las estatuas de Abraham Lincoln y de Martin Luther King. Había gente paseando a sus perros, niños y adultos en bicicletas por la calle, otros trotando y unos cuantos navegando pequeños modelos náuticos en unos espejos de agua. También había un parque grandísimo con juegos modernos donde oía a niños hablando inglés y veía a otros usando kipás y rizos en las sienes.



On Father's Day, Ulises and Pilar, some friends of ours, invited us to a restaurant in Polanco for brunch. I had never been in that part of the city. I had passed by that neighborhood, but had never been there.


I thought at some point that I was in a big city in the States. We were in the Lincoln Park where there's a statute of Abraham Lincoln and another one of Martin Luther King. There were people walking their dogs, jogging, children and adults riding their bikes on the street, people sailing model boats, and a huge modern playground where I heard children speaking English and saw boys wearing sidelocks and kippas.

En CU

En el Centro Cultural Universitario


Caminando hacia la Biblioteca Nacional
Walking to the National Library

"It's a small world." We ran into some friends from La Paz.

En el espacio escultórico. A las niñas les encantó.
At the espacio escultórico. The girls loved it. They had fun climbing to the top and then coming back down.

En la UNAM

Inside/Dentro de Universum



The girls had a blast with the mirrors.
A las niñas lo que más les gustó fueron los espejos.


Outside/Fuera de Universum

Triste // Sad

After a small accident.
Después de un pequeño accidente.

Parque de la Naturaleza// Nature's Park

That's the name Carmen gave to this back yard in housing complex in Mexico City.

Ese es el nombre que le dio Carmen a este jardín de un complejo residencial en la ciudad de México.

On a trip // De viaje

5 things about me

I was tagged by Miriam and Adela to answer the following questions:

What were you doing five years ago?
- Living in Florida.
- Doing my PhD in Hispanic Linguistics.
- Getting ready for my Quals and thinking about my thesis proposal.
- Saying good bye to a summer in Rio de Janeiro (my American visa was going to expire that summer and we couldn't afford to go to Mexico to renew it.)
- Got pregnant.

What are five things (in no particular order) on your to-do list for today?
- Kill some ants (not on my list but had to do it, my studio was swarming with ants.)
- Do the syllabus for one of the 5 classes I'm going to be teaching next semester.
- Photocopy some texts to make a course packet for one of those classes.
- Go to the grocery store.(Done)
- Pick up the girls at school.

What are five snacks you enjoy?
- Popcorn with lime and chile sauce
- Mango or Lemon sherbets, popsicles, or ice-cones with "chamoy."
- Fruits and veggies with chile powder
- Tortilla chips and guacamole
- Nuts, seeds and dried fruit

What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
- Open more libraries for children, like this one they just opened in Oaxaca.
- Create and support groups that work with children to promote human development through Art and Culture, like this group here in Tuxtla. (Well, I think I'll volunteer to help them, because I don't think I'll ever be a billionaire.)
- Open a bookstore.
- Live in La Paz, so the girls could see their grandparents more often. (Don't need to be a billionaire to live there but need to save a lot of money to build a house and live without a job for a while.)
- Travel all over the world.

What are five of your bad habits?
- Bite my fingernails.
- Go to the kitchen every 5 minutes -if I'm working at home- to grab something to eat.
- Leave my belongings around. My studio is always a mess.
- I'm addicted to Internet.

What are five places you have lived?
- Mazatlán
- Puebla
- Monterrey
- Cuernavaca
- Valley City, North Dakota

What are five jobs you have had?
- English teacher.
- Spanish instructor.
- Research assistant
- Editorial assistant
- Linguistics instructor.

Which five people do you want to tag?
- Carlos
- Ginger
- Gisele
- Reichi
- Zé

Lugares Favoritos//Favorite Places

Librerías y bibliotecas.

Bookstores and libraries.









Parques

Parks












La playa


The beach