La Villa en Vivo

La Villa

After much ado, I give you the Villa. Benjamin was good enough to bring me my camera back from his short return to the states, and I can kind of give you all a better image of the village.

Here is the main entrance to the Villa, one of two. But the second entrance is just a dirt road, that leads to small barrio. This entrance (the left) off the highway (the right), continues for a about 2 km, and you get to the end of town. While there is maybe a couple hundred yards of cobble stoned road here and there, this is pretty much it for paved roads. I happy to be lucky enough to live on it for the time being. As you can see below, it just creeps along almost dead straight, dotted with houses, pulperias, and fritangas. It’s got a real small town feeling too it.

Here is my home for the time being, the local ice cream chop. Things could be worse huh. My host mother is quite the entrepreneur. Apart from selling just ice cream, she has that hot dog/hamburger stand in front of the house, as well as a legit photocopier, which are hot commodities in town.

Once again, my room opens up to open air, but this time in stead of Chico the goat and a dirt back yard, I at least have a covered garage. Fun fact about my room is that aside from the furniture, everything is hanging from the rafters: mosquito net, hammock, backpack, surfboard, everything.

Where I spend most of my time outside of the house and school: the court. Between football sala, football campo, and basketball, I have my hands full. The football campo field is pretty interesting to play in, as some patches are about knee night, to the point where you can’t see the ball. The shorter sections are where the horses have been grazing, and that means tons of moon pies everywhere. Watch your step!