The First Mexi-Casa

1.8.10 The home we stayed in when we first got here belongs to Petra which is Porfirio's sister. This home is a cement haven in which spiders and mice keep shelter. It is a surprisingly large home which you would be shocked to see in Mexico. The fact that it is PURE CEMENT from floor to ceiling gives it's location away. Something funny did happen our first night in this house though. We were all sleeping and suddenly Frances & Porfirio heard someone calling “Daaaad!” they woke up & asked each other if the other had heard that. Again “Daaaaad!” So Porfirio runs up the stairs to where we were & saw we were all asleep. Perplexed, he was wondering who that could be. Then there it was again “D A A A A D!” it was then, he realized it was the GOATS next door crying out “BA-A-A-AH!” We got to hear their desperate hunger cries for several days & I came to know them very well. From the young one, to a few middle aged ones, all the way to an old crabby one which had the funniest voice of all. I can best describe it as a very old, gruff and MEAN man yelling at a punk kid to get off his property.

Back to the house, there is a lack of hot water in this house as well as a finished shower or bathtub, so after enduring about FIVE showerless days, we became innovative and we took our first ghetto bath in Mexico. Frances bought a small green tub & boiled up some hot water which was poured into the tub and then placed into the cement bathtub (that was never finished). The goal was to bathe oneself as quick as possible (because it wasn't fun standing in the nude in the cold.) This was not my favorite experience.

We're definitely in Mexico! Anyway, we stayed in Petra's house for a handful of days while we looked for ourselves a more permanent situation which we found in just a matter of a week or so! The house on Jose Santana 426, Jocotepec, Mexico!