Saturday

It appears that this storm will be with us for a couple days, and we probably won't be able to go to Tulum tomorrow. I hope that we can go another day this week - maybe if there is a sunny day we can leave at lunch time and call it a field trip for conversation class.

Katherine, a Soléxico student from Switzerland who is also staying at Hotel Real del Mayab, carried through with cenote dive she reserved on Friday. At dinner tonight she said the caves were fascinating, and she had a great time, completely unaffected by the storms raging above!
















Katherine on a much sunnier day, leaving our neighborhood bookstore on Calle 1.

Like all the Swiss students I've met at school here, Katherine is already multi-lingual, able to speak French, Italian, and English in addition to her native German. It reminds me of a funny joke I heard at school the other day:

Q: What do you call a person who can speak three languages?
A: Tri-lingual
Q: What do you call a person who can speak two languages?
A: Bi-lingual
Q: What do you call a person who can speak ONE language?
A: American!!!

Tonight we walked across the street to an Italian restaurant on 5th Ave. for dinner and had a very nice meal. Viewed from the outside, the restaurant appears to be very small and ordinary. Inside, however, it was a little like eating at The Rainforest Cafe! There was an actual tree in the middle of the greenhouse-style dining room, and we had a beautiful view of the jungle outside, with rain pounding on the roof and dripping from the tree near our table! If I go back, I'll be sure to take pictures.