Friday night

So we ended up going to a really nice restaurant here in Mexico City called El Corazon de Alcachofa (Heart of Artichoke) on Friday night. It is a beautiful restaurant on a street called Masarik in Polanco. They have a wine expert who helps you choose your bottle of wine.. even if you don't plan to buy a bottle, his pony tail sort of draws you into feeling you should also drink wine and grow long hair. Anyways the food was also nice, Jose had steak and I had ravioli with goat cheese and spinach, we also shared a greek salad which was actually not very traditional but none the less very tasty, I actually forgot my camera but here in a  picture of the outside:

things

1) I am reading a book right now which is called "Norwegian Wood"  by Haruki Murakami, who I have decided is not my favourite author. I also read another brook from his called "Sputnik sweetheart" a few years ago. If you like nostalgic Japanese themed books haha I think you will like it too!


2) I bought a new moisturizer about 2 months ago that said  "Aclara" on it which i assumed meant, clearing. Yesterday I asked Jose if he thought my skin was clearing up and he said "yeah sure" just like a typical man, then he said but why would that cream clear up you skin? so i said uh well jose it says Aclara... this actually means lightening,  so I have been pulling a Michael Jackson and whitening my skin for the past 2 months... strangely enough I haven't noticed any difference, I think the next shade for me would be transparency haha

hot hot hot!!

So I feel that it is necessary to write about the weather... basically it's hot... all day, sweaty hot and I'm starting to struggle. It's quite chilly in the mornings, about 9/10 degrees but by 12 the temperature more than doubles and in the city it's not always fun. Sometimes the bus and metro are so warm its hard to breath. Right now I have a sleeveless top on (very wild).... and the fan on and I'm still hot. People keep saying that it is really unusual this time of year, it is supposed to be quite cool so I am hoping that it does soon! Mum and dad are coming in less than two weeks so I would like the weather to stay for them and then it can leave!


This weekend is Day of the Dead (like the Mexican Halloween but it is a big celebration of life and death - it is not supposed to be scary but unfortunately the influence of the United States with Halloween is really obvious. Strange that Halloween isn't even American yet it seems as though it is.) Anyway this means we get Tuesday off ... which means Monday also because people like to extend their holidays here. Jose and i have hired a car and we are going on a little trip... we are actually just driving to Veracruz but we we feel that if we stop in lots of different places that are not planned, technically it counts as a roadtrip! I am going to make a picnic for the car like my mum used too... all the food would be eaten in the first hour haha. We hope to spend 2 nights in Veracruz, 1 in a small town and 1 in Xalapa but we will just see how it goes. 


Well I hope i have lots of good pictures from the trip for next week!
Que tengan buen fin de semana! x

Surprise Friday and Corona Capital

Beautiful sunset

Yea so I had my first 'boyfriend coming home from a trip earlier than expected surprise' this weekend. On friday I got in to bed at about 10, cool i know, but woke up to loud knocking at the door and Leeannneee, i stumbled out of the bed and Mr Jose was at the door, it was only 11 but it felt like 4am. It was soooo good to see him, and in my confused sleepy state my first thought was... oh my god I haven't shaved my legs since Sunday...
He brought back loads of free stuff from the Expo, shaving cream being one of them! but food, flashlight, water bottles, notebooks, shampoo, loads of cleaning and bathroom products which is great because that's something we wont have to spend money on for a while! Also a good collection of chocolate which will keep me amused this week.
On Saturday we went to a big outside concert/festival, 3 big statges bands form mexico, England and the states... lots of Corona.. but at $70 pesos, i almost fainted ... only had 2, although they were supposed to be doubles but it was more like a corona and a 1/4, It was a really fun day, very very hot and we were there from about 1-10, the day finished with Interpol and then the pixies. If I am honest i didn't know any any of the bands, well except for 2 door cinema club who were really good. We then took our very tired bums to our favourite Italian restaurant, Sangria, Gorfonzola pasta and mushroom pizza... a very good Staurday!
Sunday we did the usually house clean/groceries routine.. update im not drinking milk at the moment, only soya milk, Nanette... the itchy legs are back... im cutting foods to find what causes it! We then went to see Eat Pray Love which I loveddddd, and i know jose did too. it is quite long but I especially loved the Italy part... "The sweetness of doing nothing" Dolce far ninete.... I so want to learn Italian again.. well not again but better that I did last time!
ok well Ciao pescado xxx

Lots of free Chedraui stuff!

Lime and chili chips :-)

Cooling off in the heat!

Boys never grow up..

We pose

keeping it healthy

Bit of a lonely Friday

Buenas noches everyone, so it's Friday, I just had a sandwich for dinner at Starbucks.. needless to say not the most eventful Friday night. Jose has been in Veracruz all week with Chedraui (the company he works for) and won't be back until tomorrow. Its been a really busy week, I covered a class and did some evaluations for new students who want to study at the school on top of my classes so I've definitely been occupied. However, I don't like sleeping in the apartment alone but I think I'm slowly getting used to it. I was a bit worried about being here by myself at first but everything been just fine and I feel like i can survive quite well in the craziness of Mexico City without holding someone's hand.... although I do look forward to holding Jose's hand tomorrow :-) 
Today I bought a new nail varnish which is bright red... definitely the most exciting point of the day.. which then lead to buying a new mascara and eye shadow too. For those who are familiar with Sanbourns.. they now sell Rimmel, smashbox, and L'oreal in their full collections... that's probably only exciting to me haha
okay enjoy the weekend
Here is poesy picture with my new colour

Miss. Leanne

Today was a really good day, nothing very special happened but in terms of my job it was a very satisfying day. My morning class went well, I felt that we made progress and I can see that the man I have the class with is really starting to make some progress, english doesn't come easy to him so it's really nice to hear him saying things that I know he couldn't 1 month ago. I then had my second class with the mum and son, I am noticing that they are writing better and when I tell them stories I feel they understand and they are starting to respond with questions. My class with the 3 girls was great, we spent most of the class taking silly pictures on the Mac and making videos but they were speaking English and with confidence.. its definitely a nice a feeling to know that I have helped them and I see now why people enjoy to teach. Who knows if teaching is something that  will peruse when i return to Vancouver but for now it has been such a fantastic and fulfilling experience. Anyway just thought I would share that with you.
x

Before class

 During class....

After class!

Two things from today

1) I change my name to Ana when i have to give my name in Mexico... Leanne causes too many problems. i like being Ana, she orders a Cappuccino with Soy milk and reads a book.

2) I went to the market this morning, I go once or twice a week. It sell meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and flowers. It always really fresh and very cheap, today I bought all of this and it came to $52 pesos... about 5 dollars.... 2.50 pounds.. Probably cheaper in other parts of Mexico but I thought for a city it was a pretty good deal!