Mexican Night!

Oh man! Things don’t get too much better than stuffing yourself with two huge burritos. Saturday night 4 of us volunteers got together to feast. We all met up in Bălţi to get the necessary ingredients before heading to Jeff’s house in a nearby village to begin the preparations. Of course Moldova isn’t really stocked with the key ingredients for Mexican cooking so we had to improvise. Since tortillas don’t exist we had to buy lavash bread which is fairly similar, and then since tortilla chips are very expensive we had to make our own by cutting the lavash bread into triangles and frying it. The salsa of course had to be made from scratch and the refried beans were just mashed up white beans reheated. It all turned out excellent though thanks to my mom sending me two packets of taco seasoning (way to go mom!). Jeff had invited two of his Moldovan friends to the feast also and they got their first taste of Mexican mancare (food).
We of course all ate too much but decided to work it off with some sledding. Oh my gosh, I love to sled! We had a tiny one person sled that we kept forcing two people onto. It made it way more fun trying to keep two people on it while trying to stay out of the ditch. We have been so lucky with snow lately. The snow we got Thursday has stuck around and we got a bunch more last night. Though unfortunately it is getting warmer outside and I am afraid by next week it will all be gone L. But I have had my wish of lots of snow and am now ready for warm weather, fresh fruits and veggies, and fields full of sunflowers!