¿Sabe que... ?

So not much exciting has happened since Wednesday except that it´s official that I´m going to see the butterflies tomorrow! and that next week I officially take over teaching the class, which I´m very excited about! So I decided I would just post some interesting facts about Mexico and what I have learned.

¿Sabe que...? Did you know that....?

- In Mexico the plumbing isn´t very strong so you put your toliet paper in the garbage can instead of flushing it.

- In Morelia they can´t drink the water either so everyone has those giant water jugs, you know like the Culligan man commercials? so that they have purified water.

- that the monarch butterflies come to the mountains of Michoacán (the state in Mexico that I´m in) for the winter and that you can climb the mountain and see them in the trees, which is where I am going tomorrow

- That Mexico has stores like Sears and Walmart, and restaurants like KFC and Applebees

- That they have stores called Pick and Go´s that you can drive your car through and buy food at a convenience store while still in your car

- That there is no spanish word for muffin, so they pronounce it "moofin"

- Here in Morelia the most common animals are wild birds and domestic dogs. I saw a few squirrels at the zoo but thats it, and only one cat so far

- that there´s a Latin American Idol? One of my host families relatives actually took third place in it a few years ago.

- that keyboards here have the upside down question mark (¿), exclamation point (¡) and accent mark (´) functions built in, a huge advantage over trying to put it in manually in Word!

I will add more posts like this everyonce and a while with some more interesting facts for you, just in case my blog wasn´t already long enough lol :)