Grandpa’s Birthday
Today is my grandpa Jose’s 90th birthday from my mom’s side of the family. My brother Lauro (the first grandson) and my cousin’s daughter Susanita (the first great grandchild) were both born on Grandpa Jose’s birthday. Most of my family is in Allende, Nuevo Leon right now celebrating my grandpa’s birthday party. Grandpa has 7 daughters and 2 sons. 33 Grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren My mom is the oldest of the 9 kids that he and my grandma Leonor had together . My grandpa is a very happy person. He always has a very nice attitude. I love him very much. We are very thankful for many, many things that he taught us. We wish we could be celebrating with him and all the family. My uncle Abel has a great house with a huge patio to fill the whole family for party’s. They told me that they are doing lots of very good food. The main course is borrego al ataud. It is kind of like a steam goat. I have never had that before, but it sounds great!
Mi Primer Día de Clase
Después de casi 5 años de haber llegado aquí a Carolina del Norte. No había podido enrolarme en la escuela por cuestiones de tiempo y otras cosas. Este verano pensé en que quería regresar de nuevo para avanzar en mi carrera. Decidí tomar solo una clase por el momento. Estoy tomando Contabilidad Financiera. Hasta ahorita me encanta! Parece ser que tengo un profesor bueno:) Vamos a ver si así sigue. Se ve que le encanta enseniar este tipo de clase. Entre la clase, le gusta contar lo que le paso durante la semana y también le gusta hablar de su mama que tiene 85 años. Todo esto hace que la clase de 2 horas termine mas pronto. A mi me gusta mucho escuchar su acento y la manera que describe las cosas. La ultima clase que tuvimos se la paso contando de su ida a la playa y que no tenia acceso al Internet. Se la paso contándonos como por 20 minutos mas otros 20 minutos de tomar asistencia y repetir los nombres de los compañeros uno por uno. No tuvo suficiente tiempo para darnos la clase entera. Ahora estamos un poco atrasados en la tarea, pero no fue por culpa nuestra sino de el. Ayer escribió en el correo electrónico disculpándose por no haber dado la clase entera.
Lorena (Mrs. Dad) started back to school this fall. For a period of 7-8 years when the kids were very young, Lorena took classes at the community college. She went all the way through English as a Second Language and Freshman Composition, math through the Calculus she needs to get a business degree, along with several business and art classes. After the kids got into Middle School, motherhood and homeschool were a full time job, so her education has been on hiatus until this fall. Now that the kids are both sophomores in college, she has started back to college this fall with a class in Financial Accounting. She plans to increase her load by one class each semester until she gets up to four classes. That should allow her to finish her Associate of Science degree about the same time our kids get their bachelors degrees.