The Smoldering Burrito.

MIL DISCULPAS to those of you that tune in from time to time for the protracted absence from this BLOG. A friend from Toronto wrote me this morning with a justified "What Up?" and put me back on track. Thanks Jeff!

This is our last full day of work here at the old Colegio before heading out for the holidays. (Can we say Christmas anymore??) Tomorrow will be a short day in which we wrap up a few morning classes and then gather in the courtyard to give out gift baskets to all the maintenance staff who do such such a good job keeping this busy place orderly and functioning. The tradition is that students from each class bring in cookies, pasta, flour, oil, cereal, oatmeal and many more items which are collected into giant baskets and gifted out. It's just a way to say "thanks!"

The teachers already had their Christmas Posada one evening last week and it was a great success. We enjoyed piñatas and ponche, tamales and pozole, fragrant mandarinas and plenty of cachuates--oh, and an open bar. The D.J. (aka "Chuy") whose day job is to man the door and do a bit of gardening blew us all away with his ability to spin the rockin' tunes and get people up and shakin'. Who'da thunk it? Anyway, there was also a table full of gifts to be raffled off and even though I was eye-ballin' the nice new color TV, I ended up winning an electric screw driver. Hmmmm. I guess it beats a rubber biscuit.

I promise to be back on soon, so stay tuned for further news from this burning (smoldering?) burrito.