Chapu-who?

Well the first school week is over and it went very well. Our schedule is typically this: we get to class at 9 and spend 2 hours on grammar, then have a break for thirty minutes and then spend two hours in conversation class. Then we meet our intercambios and chat at the university or walk around town and check out the sites for about an hour or so. Yesterday our intercambios, Enrique and Maite, showed us the ex-convent of Santo Domingo. It's beautiful. We're going to return with a camera and take some photos to post.

Today our intercambios took us through a market where we were able to try Oaxaca's famous chapulines, toasted grasshoppers. We tried lemon flavored, garlic flavored and chili flavored. They were ok and turned out to be not quite as crunchy as we anticipated. However they may be more enjoyable (for the unaccustomed palate) if they're eaten in a dish rather than alone.

Lemon! My favorite!...oh you shouldn't have...no really, you shouldn't have.