La Despedida de Uriel

La despedida de Uriel, as you can guess is "the good-bye to Uriel." I got up at the crack of dawn to go with him to the airport. I was fine with it last night, but this morning it didn`t seem like such a bright idea. When I asked him if he wanted me to go he said, "yes," which is really unlike him because his usual answer is, "if you want to." So I felt like I should go and see him off. Sure, I was sad to see him go, but I will see him back home soon enough.
Last night we had a little going away party at my favorite restuarant, Tio Guero. Of course, Uriel played the guitar almost the whole time. I had to remind him to stop and eat something or his food would get cold. This isn`t the greatest picture of me, but it`s the best one I have from yesterday. We sang a lot of fun songs and kept the place open an hour past closing time. I didn`t feel too bad because we gave the waiter a great tip. He`s a young guy and the only waiter in that restuarant. He works his ass off running around and trying to serve everyone in that place while the owner sits around and watches. He looked really happy when he left at the end of the night, a big smile plastered on his face.
Everything at school is going fine. On Friday I will have to take a final exam and do an oral presentation about a cultural aspect of Oaxaca. It includes a breif summary and some questions to pose to my class for discussion. I`m thinking of doing it on the food of Oaxaca. Besides the famous mole, there are a lot of interesting dishes here that are unique to this area, like champulines (grasshoppers). I tried one piece of one, but it was too crunchy and salty for me, Uriel bought a bag full at a tianguis, but never finished the whole bag. He`s definately been more of the risk-taker when it comes to trying the strange food here, and it`s been good for me because there were some things I wouldn`t have tried and when I did, I liked them. I do like green eggs and ham, I do, I do, Sam I am (but not champulines.)
Since Uriel is gone, that means I`m back at Margarita`s. I went there today for lunch and saw that in fact the Beagle cachorros were born. The coloring of their fur is already very prevelent. I was surprised. I`ll ask Alejandro if I can take pictures, I didn`t today because I didn`t really have permission and they were all eating. I didn`t want to upset any hungry babies, you know how that is, right mom?
I opted not to take a workshop for the last two weeks since Uriel was here. It was great not having to go this afternoon because I was exhausted from getting up so damn early, so I took a 3 hour nap instead. Tonight we are going to a Guelaguetza, a traditional Oaxacan dance. I should be fun and will give me something interesting to post for tomorrow.