Mexico – San Cristobal- Our Ginormous Garden

We have arrived here in San Cristobal and it’s a lovely town with colours everywhere. Our house is sooooo small and it only has 2 bedrooms and a kitchen . It also has a ginormous garden with 3 dogs.

One of the dogs’ names is GInger and she’s a soppy dog that doesn’t do anything. However she smells soooo much. So when we came back from school we washed her and she loved it! She got all soapy and it was fun.

But we are having a wonderful time in school and now I speak a lot of Spanish.

Today it was really sunny so me and Gabriel and Millie got in our swimming costumes and got our water guns out and sprayed each other till we got cold and had the best shower!

Now we’ve got neighbours, a Dutch couple they are really nice and now they start to come and have long conversations with us or come and have dinner. They live at the bottom of the garden in a little house!

In our ginormous garden, there’s a slide and two swings. But we made our own den out of sticks against a tree and Luis, our housemaids’ son, he’s 19 and he made us a dream catcher, a seat made out of a tyre and he made the den waterproof by covering it in big banana leaves.

Gabriel also had a party because it was his birthday. He invited a few friends and we played funny games and ate. The tradition in Mexico is when the child blows out the candles, the parent stuffs his face into the cake, but my mum promised she wouldn’t do that. However, for a photo mum pretended to do that and at the end she did. Gabriel was a Cabeza de pastel (cake face)!