November 8, 2012

• Report # 939

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve all been having a wonderful week. On Monday I went to Fundidora Park to meet a friend and we walked by Paseo Santa Lucía. The sun was getting pretty hot so it was good we passed through there early. We walked around some downtown sites and stopped to get some drinks at the Oxxo. We continued walking downtown in search of Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead) which is sold around the time of Day of the Dead in Mexico.

  We found a cafe called El Globo (The Balloon) which had some Pan de Muerto so I was luckily able to try it for the first time. It’s a very sugary bread, though it tastes very good. I had a frappuichino as well which was very thick but full of flavour of mocha and chocolate so I loved it. Afterwards we took the bus to another part of town and explored a church. They have started selling candy canes here, and some of them were the size of huge walking canes; I don’t think I had seen that in my life before !

  In the afternoon we headed to the mall San Agustin and walked around some more and stopped for lunch at Focaccia. They had a very good deal where you could order one principal plate and two side orders and a dessert for 99 pesos, ($ 7.54) so it was a wonderful deal. There was so much food I was absolutely stuffed after. Luckily we walked around for another hour or so and finally we headed home. It was a long day but lots of fun.

  On Tuesday I had lunch at Chili’s and walked around Fundidora and Paseo Santa Lucía once again. I finally had begun my search to find a place to stay, and in the evening I went to see a place. It was downtown and a man came out to let me in and show me around. He was a very talkative guy, though I thought he was a little odd. He was almost giving me a job interview to see about living in the place. He asked me about what I do, my interests, what kind of person I am, and my religious beliefs.

  I definitely learned that he is not religious at all and he doesn’t have any belief for The Virgin Guadalupe like so many Mexicans do. He was a fascinating person, but the room was kind of dull and there were a lot of rules such as I couldn’t invite anyone over or anything like that. I told him I was going to see another place and call him back if I wanted to stay at his place.

  Yesterday I took a bus to San Pedro and walked around before heading to the Galerias mall to see a movie called Después de Lucía (After Lucía. It was a lot better than the last movie I saw, though it was incredibly sad as it dealt with the subject of extreme bullying, and those types of movies are very hard for me to watch. I had some sushi in the evening and went for a walk and eventually was able to get a taxi to find my way to the next room I was looking at.

  It’s simple, but all the services are included including laundry and internet, and its only 2,000 pesos ($ 153) every month, so that price was almost unbeatable. So I said I will take it, and there is no deposit either so that’s great. I will move in there today, and now that I have a fixed address I can get on with searching for jobs. It won’t be easy, but I’m going to give it my all. I returned to my friend’s house at around 10:00 pm. I talked with his mom for about an hour and thanked her for having me over and helping me out so much.

  It’s a great family here and it’s a wonderful place to be and I’m very appreciative of all of the things they have done for me. And even though Arturo is a lot different than I am though he is a great friend. So today I’ll meet the man at his place at 2:20 pm and get myself moved over there and then I will be able to get things on track. During the movie I saw, the father was so upset with the disappearance of his daughter (who was actually still alive and ok) he decided to take justice into his own hands.

  He basically kidnapped one of the students most responsible for the tormenting of his daughter, and took him for a ride in a boat and through him in the ocean. This got me thinking that in many situations people are so fed up with the justice system and its failures they make the very poor decision of taking justice into their own hands….. vigilante justice I believe it’s called. At the end of the day I do think it’s best that justice be left to the courts, though I can certainly understand the pain and anger many victims’ families would feel.

  Obviously killing someone responsible for a crime is taking it to the very extreme and that is not acceptable, but clearly the courts need to do a better job of considering the personal hurt and pain of those people affected most by a crime before choosing their sentence for the criminal. And in many other cases the forms of vigilante justice would be much less serious than killing someone, but at the end of the day two wrongs don’t make a right and that is what everyone should be aware of.

  For the next question:

  What are your thoughts on vigilante justice and taking the law into your own hands ? Is it ever acceptable ?

  I will leave you all with some pictures from Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán where I stayed for two months. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Sunday, bye for now.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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