After I cooked my neighbors and friends for a Chinese meal on Saturday, they invited me back on Sunday, and they ate and drank twice in a row. Just in time for the expansion of the proprietor's wife, the restaurant will open in the morning next week and provide a breakfast menu. On Sunday, the proprietress's father and a sister came from Tuxtla to celebrate the trial opening. Originally, his family said that it would be more than 9 o'clock, but...

Finally, on Sunday, I went to Kinoki's independent film documentary restaurant, which I didn't have time to visit last time. Most people come here to drink coffee, eat, and watch the scenery. The third floor has an excellent view. You can see the city center and even the scenery of the mountains in the distance. Unfortunately, it started to rain after a while on the third floor. It's pretty much free here every night...

Attended a couch-surfing event for the first time on Sunday, there are very few couch-surfing events here. Before I went, I saw that there were more than a dozen people signing up, but when I arrived, except for the organizer, I was the only one, and I arrived 15 minutes late. He moved here from the neighboring big city Tuxtla three years ago, and has been teaching Spanish online, especially English...

On Sunday, I went to Zinacantán, a small town nearby, where the local aboriginal people's costumes are very characteristic. In many aboriginal towns I visited before, only women wore local special clothes, but the men here also wore traditional clothes with embroidery of various flowers and bright colors. There are also many small shops selling flowers on the street.

I met some interesting new people this week. During the Spanish class, I met a couple from Chicago. Both of them are professors of art at the Art Institute of Chicago. They are now on paid academic leave for half a year. They came here seven years ago to do research and meet local Aboriginal artists…

This week, I will continue to take the Spanish class as usual. My class status is good and bad. Sometimes it seems like a chicken blood, and I have a special desire to communicate. The three-hour class feels very fast, and it is over before I can finish it. Sometimes I feel like my brain is overwhelmed, my knowledge is saturated, I can't answer even the simplest questions, and I look forward to leaving the get out of class quickly. But most of the time...

Went over the weekend for Temazcal, an ancient Mayan aboriginal steam sauna ritual that I didn't have time to go to in July. In San Cristóbal, there are many different places where this ceremony takes place on weekends. I saw one on a flyer posted in a small shop two days ago, which was just in time for the 2nd anniversary celebration this weekend, so I decided to go…

The Spanish class has been on for a week. On the first day, the girl at the front desk of the Spanish language school still remembered that I came last month. I've been a teacher for so long that I forgot what it's like to be a student. From Monday to Friday, there are three hours of Spanish class, one grammar class and one oral class, taught by two different teachers. They are all good teachers and I am very satisfied. Been there for almost 10 years...