12.28.15 - Release Date!

 Christmas came and went, the call home was the best part. Just to catch everyone up who weren't on the call, I got my release date the other week, I'm coming home on the 29th of March 2016.  The best two years was a big lie, turns out that it's the best year and 354 days because I started the mission on April 9th of 2014, but that's ok, it's close enough.

Christmas was fun and all, and the people around here LIKE Christmas but for the last few weeks they've been getting ready for the big party, that is, the new year.










Here for the new year they make cardbord figures the sell them, they come from in small, live sized, to twenty feet tall.





The kids run around with jars asking for money to buy fireworks to put inside their "Año viejo", the men run around in black dresses and wigs flirting for money to buy alcohol and fireworks too.

At midnight, all the fireworks go up and they burn the cardboard figures in the streets. Everyone is traveling to the beach or to be with family for the biggest party of the year.
Us? we'll be watching from the window just like we did last year.  We don't want anything to do with the danger of being in the street on new years night.

I'll send pictures of the locura next week.



Things here are all good, I hope things back home are good too.  Stay safe this new year try to stay warm!

I'll talk to you all later!


Love, Cameron