Carlos Pena - Latin American Idol

I'm sure you guys were all on the edge of your seats two Thursdays ago when they read the winner of Latin American Idol!!!! Well, a group of us went to the local watering hole to get in touch with the local culture and see what the reaction of the Guate citizens would be when the results were read. The finalists were a Mexican guy and a Guatemalan guy, Carlos Peña.

They read the winner and it was Carlos Peña which sent the bar into hysterics! We were on the lower level and the people were jumping up and down and freaking out so much upstairs that I checked out the evacuation route in case the wooden floor came crashing down! The wood panels were going up and down a good two inches.

We made it out safely and had a lot of laughs over how into things like this people get. The cool thing is that a Guatemalan beat out a Mexican and I was happy they showed them up because so many Mexicans think they're better than their neighbors to the South. It also brought a TON of national pride to a country that needs it.

So my brush with fame happened on Sunday when my Spanish teaching counterpart - she works in my classroom and teaches the kids Spanish for a couple of hours during the day when I'm not teaching them English - headed to Puerto Vallarta for a teaching conference and ran into CARLOS PENA in the airport! She sent us this cute pic attached and the kids went wild.