Hi everyone!! This is Mrs. PEnner, not Brownie, writing.(Brownie will write in a second.). Did you read my response to your comment? It was great to hear from you all this morning, and I am so happy to hear all your good questions. I tried to answer them quickly in a comment. I have a bit of time to blog here, and then we have to eat breakfast and go to see the pyramids. It is the last day of my trip today.
Hi everyone. FInally Mrs. Penner let me use the keyboard and tell you about my adventures. She wanted to write more but I kept poking her in the elbow so she finally let me on when I started to nibble her elbow with my big teeth.
I wanted to tell you all about my visit to the school. You should have seen it. I bet the thing you would love the best is that they let dogs wander all around the school. Wouldn't that be great if we let dogs come in the classroom all the time? (They were very good dogs, one of them gave me a kiss too.) Mrs. Penner read the book we made to the children. She read the English part and the students read the Spanish part. Then she gave them all a little pin of the Golden Boy and a Canada flag and a Canada penny. They thought that was all really great. The best part was when I got to have fun with the children. They thought the book was good, but when I started to talk to them, they had BIG smiles. They gave me a Spanish name!! It is "Cafe Cito" (Cafe See Toe). It means "LIttle Brownie". They all wanted to hold me, and even the dogs thought I was great. MAny of the girls and even some boys gave me hugs and laughed when Mrs. Penner pretended to make me bite them. They wanted me to stay forever, but Mrs. Penner told them that I was an amigo (friend) for my students in Canada. So they let me go at the end. Mrs. Penner had a lot of fun with them. All the teachers had fun.
The school there is much smaller than ours, and they don't have very many pencils and books like we do. But they seem very happy. Guess what, they are learning multiplication like we are. Mrs. Penner asked one student to answer all the times tables questions, but she wasn't sure if the student was right because she couldn't understand the spanish numbers! But she smiled anyways and said good in Spanish (Buen).
At lunch time the Parent Council of the school made a big lunch for everyone. Mrs. Penner got a plate with a lot of good food, but one thing on the plate was a fish with the eyes still on it. She was a bit scared to eat it, but she did anyways and she said it was yummy. But she didn't eat the eyes. She asked me if I wanted some and I said no again (just like the cactus juice). I don't really like fish.
I also wanted to tell you quickly about the second monarch colony that Mrs. Penner took me too. I got to ride a horse!! That was cool, but the best part was seeing so many monarch butterflies. She took a lot of pictures but she is having trouble putting them on the computer this morning. So she said to tell you that she will show you them next week.
Today she is taking me to see the pyramids. There is the pyramid of the sun and the pyramid of the moon. Maybe Mrs. Cornwell can find some pictures of them to show you. We have to climb a lot of stairs today to get to the top.
It is hard to believe that I will see you all in a few days. Please tell Mrs. Penner when we get back that I want to come on all the field trips this year. I love traveling. Did you know that the Spanish word for beaver is "castor"? They said they have beavers in Mexico too.
Bye for now. Please try to comment because I think the comment section works now!
Adios Amigos (good bye friends!)
Love,
Mrs. Penner and Brownie "Cafe Cito"
Hi everyone! Mrs. Penner told me today it's time to go back to Winnipeg. I am kind of sad and also kind of glad. I'm glad because I will get to see you all very soon. Do you like my new hat? Mrs. Penner bought it for me today because the sun was so bright on the pyramids. I think it is pretty cool. I feel like a real Mexican! 
Hi again everyone! Guess what?! Mrs. Penner and I are back in Winnipeg. She is getting reading to come back to school tomorrow. She has kind of been shivering because she thinks it is kind of cold, but I feel like it is just right because of my warm coat. I want to show you some pictures so you can all see them at school on Monday.
Can you see me in this picture? The man who is holding me is Mrs. Penner's teacher for the week. His name is Erik, and he is the teacher for Monarch Teacher's Network. He is showing me these two butterflies in his hand. They are very very old and tattered, their wings have big holes in them. They want to mate before they die, but Erik said they will probably die before they can mate because their wings are so torn. Many of the butterflies are mating so they can lay eggs in Texas and Florida.
