Two days ago Cheque and I were given the task to buy enough food to feed 60 people three-square meals a day, everyday, for seven days....that's around 1260 meals. And here I thought that having four carritos was a lot to have yeah-no.....
The first trip took about six carts total. Four from Sam's Club and two from Walmart. We realized we couldn't fit anything else so at that point in time we decided to take what we had back to the B2B campus and unload. With the help of some of the staff kids it actually helped a lot and we unloaded it pretty quickly so we went back out to get a "few" more carts.
Trip numero dos was more. Much more. Six carts from Sam's Club and three carts of just bread from H.E.B. bringing our total cart count up to around 15. Originally we were going to go for more at H.E.B. but we once again we realized we lacked the physical space to transport the additional mix of 170 bananas, 230 apples, and 8 watermelons plus about 10 kilos of ham. Yesterday, Cheque went back to get the rest of the bread we couldn't fit, the ham, and other assorted frutas y verduras. An additional two carts I would guess if not more. Our total to cart count to somewhere around seventeen and that doesn't even count the stuff we already had in the pantry. Had I not been able to work my schedule around so that I could go with Cheque he would have had to do it all by himself and THAT is what makes him super chido.
Yesterday I went to Bethany with David to escort a Canadian mission trip team which was quite the experience. Considering that I had to translate their Canadian-accented English to the Midwestern-accented English that David is used to hearing in order for him to be able to translate to Spanish.....it was a pretty fun day. I was the only American in a crowd of white people was an almost surreal experience. I'm used to just being seen as un de los Americanos but for the first time ever during my stay here in Mexico I was known as el Americano. And that was pretty cool.
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