La Comida

So far the food has been fantastic. I’ve been surprised at how common eggs are on a restaurant menu. A common thing to order is “la comida corrida,” which is a choice of a salad, a main dish, and a dessert from a list. The average price for such a meal is about M$50, which is less than $5 in the U.S. (I’ve been converting prices mentally by removing the last digit and guessing that it’s a little bit less than that.)

At home, the food has been really similar to the kind of food I eat in the U.S., except that tortillas are always on the table. This may be due to the family hosting picky students for the last eight years. My host mother always dices up fruit and squeezes fresh orange juice (which is amazing) for desayuno. Because we’re starving by 11:00, most of the students in the BCA group have been going to a nearby panaderia during the ½-hour break between classes. It’s delicious. Comida is the heavier meal of the day, and served early- to mid-afternoon when I get home from school. At about eight, my host mother makes me a sandwich. And, yes, she always makes it for me. I’m not allowed to do anything in the kitchen, even get the milk out of the fridge.