nochebuena & tamales

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Ok, so I have been kinda busy, so no posts in 2 weeks, sorry (if anyone noticed…)
Tomorrow is Nochebuena (Christmas eve), and I’ve been getting ready for it. We’ll be eating tamales!! I just finished making them today (yes, ahead of time, because they take long to make, and wanted to have everything ready to just chill out during the day). I made some corn tamales (my own recipe that I kinda just threw together), nothing like my mom’s, but pretty close!! They are my favorite, and now I can have them whenever I want. (mmmm, corn tamales, with cheese, cream, and chiles). For desert we’re having pumpking roll (Adri’s family recipe!). I had a hard time finding canned pumpkin but finally found it at a “gourmet store. I will post pictures and stories about our holiday dinner next time.

We had a great time at Gera’s lab holiday party. It was a potluck and I brought flan. Everybody liked it a lot! We had to walk all the way back home (for an hour and a half!), at 2 in the morning because the night buses only run every hour, and we never caught one. It was super cold too. I slipped on an icy sidewalk, fell and scratched my knee pretty good (more like pretty bad). I was ok though; no internal bleeding or anything (haha).

This past week we’ve been hanging out with Claudia (Gera’s cousin who’s visiting for the holidays). We’ve been walking around and trying to show her what little of Zürich we know (she’s our test run for upcoming visitors, hehe).

I’ve managed to watch the whole season of survivor on Youtube.com. I haven’t had time to look for something else to watch, but I did find a few episodes of Gilmore Girls and How I Met Your Mother.

We’ve managed to visit the Grossmünster when it was actually open, so we got to climb up one of the towers. You can see the pics postedin the album linked above.

It’s December 23 and still NO snow. In fact, it was actually sunny yesterday and today. So there will not be a white Christmas for us. I can only imagine how bad it’ll be once it really starts to snow around here. For now I plan to enjoy the weather that’s not very bad at all.