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lunch time

with work as the subject i wanted to share some stories from lunch (sometimes my favorite part of the day)

the cook really takes care of me at work. after about a week of me eating beans and tortillas with salsa everyday (they pull the meat and literally put it in everything). she started setting aside a portion for me before adding the meat for the day. i am so appreciative to her! yesterday she even set aside mole without meat (very rare here...it always has meat). today she thought the soup would be ok with me because there wasn`t pulled meat in it, but there were chicken feet in the pot so i couldn`t do it. one day of beans and tortillas was ok with me so i started working on making myself something when she stepped in and made it for me...i`m perfectly capable of making it myself, but it was nice.

today at lunch was funny. i was battleing some major tiredness and sat down by one of the boys, Emiliano, who always takes forever to eat. He was so excited about his taco so I thought ´great my job will be easy today. i can sit back and enjoy my food.´ yep he loved the taco, but the soup was the same old story. i kept saying "emiliano, eat please." so he would then he started asking for another taco and i told him he had a full bowl of soup. the boy next to him, Mauricio, didn`t want his taco so i probably shouldn`t have, but i told emiliano he could have mauricio`s taco. At lunch before I`ve told Mauricio how many bites he needs to have to finish his meal, we usually end up bargaining. So today he wanted to play again. That was fine and I was very proud of him when he finished his soup as Emiliano kept battleing with me and repeating everything i said back to me. it didn`t bother me though i just laughed.

He finished! I was so happy I had him come over and I gave him a big hug and said great job! Then he knew he didn`t get a orangish type fruit (because he wasn`t done with his meal yet) so he asked for one of those. Oh it was a very funny day at lunch...it`s the little things in life.

another day at the guarderia.

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