Jewellery, Salsa and Gnocchi

What a busy day it was today. Last stint with the gorgeous babies - a new class next week for me. A lady who lives here for part of the year came this afternoon to help us make jewellery from a treasure trove of findings and bits and bobs donated to La Casa. There's a fund raiser later on this month when we'll sell what we've made. Then we had a Salsa lesson at 6.30 here at the Volunteer House arranged by a couple of the teachers who are v.v. good. A guy called Aldo took the lesson and, by the end, he had all of us dancing quite well.

It was great fun. He and the teachers then danced some different forms of Salsa and showed us how it really should be done. There are five volunteers leaving within the next few days and one of them, Jason, who's a chef in his day job, made all thirteen of us dinner as his leaving present. Nice Mexican nibbles to start: tortilla chips, a smokey chorizo salsa, Queso Fresco, a freshly made cheese made from cows' milk and Quince Ate. For mains he made fresh Gnocchi with a creamy chicken, spinach, carrot and basil sauce. It was yummy. One of the American girls made a pecan pie for dessert. Well, that's all for now. Getting up very early in the morning to walk with one of the Australian girls to the bus station before 6am. It's going to be a great public holiday weekend here, lots going on: Super Bowl on Sunday, vast Plant Fair in Parque Juarez for ten days, some sort of amateur Rodeo/Bull thing on at the Bullring tomorrow - everything but the Rugby :(