Hola, greetings and salutations.
What tales shall I regal you with this week?
Well there is one thing that is very different about Houston. As it becomes summer time the insects mature and begin to romance each other. This includes Cicadas which are very loud and another insect that the Latinos call 'cuchara', I don't know the English name. But they hiss in the trees. So every few seconds there's a loud buzzing, and sometimes it's loud enough to drown out our talking. That really makes me feel like I'm in another country!
Another thing that's foreign to me is the heat. Everyone keeps telling me 'Oh, wait until July and August' with a scary kind of foreboding. It's really starting to warm up in earnest. One morning last week it was 99.8 degrees when we left for the day. ALMOST 100 degrees! Yikes! Then while we were driving there came a sudden violent deluge of rain, we drove in and out of several of these and that cooled off the temperature to 76 degrees. Better right? WRONG. That made the humidity SPIKE so it didn't actually feel any better to be outside. In fact the humidity makes it harder for me to breath, I'm going to need gills by August! But even with all that I'm more highly amused by the crazy weather than anything else. I've actually discovered that the Heat doesn't bother me terribly. What gets me is being in the sun, it is my kryptnonite no matter the temperature.
And speaking of temperature there's a story I forgot to tell from like my third week in Texas. Every Thursday we go have dinner at the Ward Mission Leader's house and then have weekly Coordination Meeting with all the ward missionaries and various other leaders. Well one time we had the usual rice and little toasted tortillas and this meat saute with peppers. Now these peppers were green and I thought it was a bell pepper because everyone else was eating it fine and no one had told me not to eat it. Only after I scarf one of the things am I told "Oh don't eat those." But it was too late! It was like a chemical burn all the way down my throat once I tried to keep eating. I turned SO red and I was straight-up CRYING, tears streaming down my face as I gasped and coughed and everyone else at the table laughed at me. No permanent damage though, I'm just very cautious about bits of green in my food now.
That's all I have on my list of things I wanted to talk about for now. If anyone has a specific question or something they would like to hear about, write me! I'll be happy to give a specific exposition on a subject of your choosing.
Until next week,
Love and Stuffies!
~ Hermana Smart
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