Don't worry kids...I haven't forgotten about y'all...I've just been out and about emborrachandome. I have about 12 pages of final projects to write (I have about 3 done) tonight and to hand in tomorrow. I am low on sleep and therefore my ADD will probably get the best of me (which means the possibility of a real long blog). Hang in there. It will happen soon.
Fun image: Banana clips are totally de modo here. Further proof that Oaxaca is very behind the times...
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Fail blog, fail.
I have kind of been a huge blogging fail this last week, mostly because not much has happened and because I have been rather busy with school. I SHOULD have time for a proper update a little bit later today.
For now I shall leave you with a startling visual...dreadlocked mullet. It was all about business in the front (as in no dreads and very short) and the back was alllll party.
For now I shall leave you with a startling visual...dreadlocked mullet. It was all about business in the front (as in no dreads and very short) and the back was alllll party.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be...
Just a little Beatles wisdom to start your day off...
Nothing has really happened here. School. Homework. Being sick. The usual.
I ate elote (pronounce ay-loh-tay) last night. I will never be able to eat normal corn on the cob again. It is corn on the cob, with a stick in it, slathered in mayo (which has lime in it), Parmesan cheese, and chili powder. Sounds and looks disgusting, possibly one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten.
Happy election day 2010!
Elections are today. Up until last week school closures had been for a day or two and nothing more. This was supposed to be the last week of school...to go onto the next grade you need to receive some papers. Well the teachers decided to use their power to get the vote to swing their way and put into effect a closure that would last for an undetermined amount of time. As in, school is not officially done until they say, and people cannot move onto the next grade until they decide to let schools open again to get their papers. Not a huge deal for kids staying within the same school or going from one government school to another...but apparently going from a public primary school to a private secondary school is very popular and due to the circumstances right now, very difficult. Thankfully the teachers have FINALLY left the Zocalo because they were starting to smell--garbage everywhere and many, many unbathed people.
Campaigning for elections must end five days before elections. You better believe that they were out campaigning like no other on Tuesday. The candidates even have to completely take down their web pages during this time period! Basically you need to make a decision by this time or you will not be able to find any information on the candidates to be able to do any research during this time.
The city has been DEAD the last two days. As you may know, laws in Mexico really don't exist. Blowing a red light is the norm. You cross a street wherever you want. Drinking on the streets is actually legal here. But the one law that these crazy people decide to enforce and abide by is the Ley de seca for 48 hours before elections. As in after 11:59 pm Friday, alcohol is not to be sold ANYWHERE (including restaurants, bars, clubs) until Monday morning. Great 4th of July weekend, eh? We were in the Plaza de Santo Domingo last night around 9 pm and everything was closing. A very odd sight in the area as most places usually stay open until 4 am or so, especially on a Saturday night.
We are more or less on "lock-down" in our homes today as our director doesn't know what the situation will be like in the city. She took the advice of one of the senora's and said we can go a few blocks, but to generally stay in our homes. We've left all of our homework for today. I think at some point I'll have to leave to get a soda and some snacks (because honestly, doing homework and not munching on food is impossible) but other than that I think I will be sitting in this chair in front of the computer all day. I'm quite positive that actually doing my homework won't happen (there is no motivation to do homework for a class whose grade does not matter and I do not need the credit for) and therefore I will probably end up finding new and exciting facebook games (hello, Frontierville), reading Harry Potter y la camara secreta (or one of the 3 other novels I bought in Spanish yesterday), screwing around on StumbleUpon (addicting if you haven't discovered it yet, especially when looking at the food/cooking sites... anyone interested in letting me experiment for them when I return home will possibly receive a delish meal), and sleeping. I would add a depressing job search to that, but after my bad few days I think I will avoid adding more bad to my life.
If the PRI candidate wins (the candidate that the teachers do NOT want and who is basically the chosen successor of the current, corrupt governor) things could turn very ugly in the city. In 2006, during the last elections, things turned very violent...and stayed violent for 8 months (this includes all government public schools being closed for the entire time period). My senora said that the two girls she had staying here then were taken by the U.S. Consulate and forced back to the U.S. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. We currently still have school tomorrow but we've been told that if we encounter large groups of people on our way we should turn around and not worry about going. A part of me hopes that I run into something (can you tell how completely done with school I am?).
2 weeks from now and I will be sitting at the tiny Oaxaca airport, waiting to head back to the land of beer, squeaky cheese, and brats (mmmm brats).
Nothing has really happened here. School. Homework. Being sick. The usual.
I ate elote (pronounce ay-loh-tay) last night. I will never be able to eat normal corn on the cob again. It is corn on the cob, with a stick in it, slathered in mayo (which has lime in it), Parmesan cheese, and chili powder. Sounds and looks disgusting, possibly one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten.
Happy election day 2010!
Elections are today. Up until last week school closures had been for a day or two and nothing more. This was supposed to be the last week of school...to go onto the next grade you need to receive some papers. Well the teachers decided to use their power to get the vote to swing their way and put into effect a closure that would last for an undetermined amount of time. As in, school is not officially done until they say, and people cannot move onto the next grade until they decide to let schools open again to get their papers. Not a huge deal for kids staying within the same school or going from one government school to another...but apparently going from a public primary school to a private secondary school is very popular and due to the circumstances right now, very difficult. Thankfully the teachers have FINALLY left the Zocalo because they were starting to smell--garbage everywhere and many, many unbathed people.
Campaigning for elections must end five days before elections. You better believe that they were out campaigning like no other on Tuesday. The candidates even have to completely take down their web pages during this time period! Basically you need to make a decision by this time or you will not be able to find any information on the candidates to be able to do any research during this time.
The city has been DEAD the last two days. As you may know, laws in Mexico really don't exist. Blowing a red light is the norm. You cross a street wherever you want. Drinking on the streets is actually legal here. But the one law that these crazy people decide to enforce and abide by is the Ley de seca for 48 hours before elections. As in after 11:59 pm Friday, alcohol is not to be sold ANYWHERE (including restaurants, bars, clubs) until Monday morning. Great 4th of July weekend, eh? We were in the Plaza de Santo Domingo last night around 9 pm and everything was closing. A very odd sight in the area as most places usually stay open until 4 am or so, especially on a Saturday night.
We are more or less on "lock-down" in our homes today as our director doesn't know what the situation will be like in the city. She took the advice of one of the senora's and said we can go a few blocks, but to generally stay in our homes. We've left all of our homework for today. I think at some point I'll have to leave to get a soda and some snacks (because honestly, doing homework and not munching on food is impossible) but other than that I think I will be sitting in this chair in front of the computer all day. I'm quite positive that actually doing my homework won't happen (there is no motivation to do homework for a class whose grade does not matter and I do not need the credit for) and therefore I will probably end up finding new and exciting facebook games (hello, Frontierville), reading Harry Potter y la camara secreta (or one of the 3 other novels I bought in Spanish yesterday), screwing around on StumbleUpon (addicting if you haven't discovered it yet, especially when looking at the food/cooking sites... anyone interested in letting me experiment for them when I return home will possibly receive a delish meal), and sleeping. I would add a depressing job search to that, but after my bad few days I think I will avoid adding more bad to my life.
If the PRI candidate wins (the candidate that the teachers do NOT want and who is basically the chosen successor of the current, corrupt governor) things could turn very ugly in the city. In 2006, during the last elections, things turned very violent...and stayed violent for 8 months (this includes all government public schools being closed for the entire time period). My senora said that the two girls she had staying here then were taken by the U.S. Consulate and forced back to the U.S. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. We currently still have school tomorrow but we've been told that if we encounter large groups of people on our way we should turn around and not worry about going. A part of me hopes that I run into something (can you tell how completely done with school I am?).
2 weeks from now and I will be sitting at the tiny Oaxaca airport, waiting to head back to the land of beer, squeaky cheese, and brats (mmmm brats).
Monday, June 28, 2010
Ugh...guys, I think I'm gonna puke...
I'm safely back in Oaxaca after two horrifying 10 hours bus rides and a weekend in the sand. It was a good weekend. I don't know what to say about Puerto Escondido. I take back all the horrible things I've said about the Pacific coast being disgusting cuz it was pretty, though the water definitely wasn't as clear and there was a lot more garbage washing up. Puerto Escondido was pretty, but not beautiful, like the Rivera Maya. It's a really small, laid back, surfer kind of town...the kind of place that I would go back to, but not the kind of place that I would start planning my next trip upon departure--as is the case with Playa del Carmen. We only got about 2 hours of sun all weekend (disappointing), we paid to go see dolphins and sea turtles (I saw one for about a second and that was the extent of our sightings), I puked on said adventure even after taking dramamine, we met some crazy people from the UK (one took a 52 hour busride from CA to Mexico City while sitting next to a convicted murderer), and I swear to God the bus nearly flipped at one point on the ride down. I didn't see it but one of the other girls said that at one point along the road there is a bridge that is barely big enough for a bus... and it's only markings that it is so small were literal flames on either side. I found some pretty neat rocks and shells on the beach, and got very addicted to searching for them. We didn't go out at all. We watched Mexico lose at a bar that had 2x1 drinks for all-day happy hour. I tried nieve for the first time (tastes and feels like freezer burnt ice cream) and had pizza for the first time in a month :).
20 days until I'm home. I have a list of foods I NEED to eat in my first few days back and also things I want to do...first on the list--taking a shower that will stay hot longer than it takes to get my hair wet.
If you don't hear from me much in the next 20 days it's because school will most likely be hell.
20 days until I'm home. I have a list of foods I NEED to eat in my first few days back and also things I want to do...first on the list--taking a shower that will stay hot longer than it takes to get my hair wet.
If you don't hear from me much in the next 20 days it's because school will most likely be hell.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Vacaciones...
We're leaving in a couple of hours for Puerto Escondido. Still not sure when we'll be back...we have absolutely NOTHING going on on Monday, so I'm trying to talk to the girls into staying for at least part of an extra day. There is a possibility that we will get hit by Hurricane Darby while we are there though it looks like it may move more north towards Acapulco before it makes landfall. Still, it's looking like a wet, rather than sunny vacation at the beach. 10 + hour bus ride and Dramamine here I come.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Estoy floja...
Ok so here are some quick photos since I've been too lazy to upload lately and did it all at once.
The fashion show. This is the dress that I got to later model.
After a night of dancing.
Model Katie.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
No te preocupes...
I know that many of you were extremely worried about my safety here in Mexico. I often give the example of would you not go to NYC because someone was shot in LA? That may be exaggerating a bit, but I think this article makes a good point....
http://www.thetruthaboutmexico.com/2009/03/is-mexico-safe/
In other words, do not worry. The media makes everything worse than it is.
http://www.thetruthaboutmexico.com/2009/03/is-mexico-safe/
In other words, do not worry. The media makes everything worse than it is.
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