December 23, 2012

• Report # 954

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve all been having a fantastic weekend. I’ve been doing incredibly well with my running lately as I’ve run the last four days, each for about what has to be around 10 kilometers. I don’t really need to be going every single day, but seeing as I don’t really have too much else to do, I might as well be running. After my run on Thursday I went to Super Salads in Interplaza and just had a sandwich and some tortilla soup.

  At around 9:00 pm I walked up to the Las Galerias mall and headed to Cinépolis to see The Life of Pi. It was a movie based on a novel about a boy and his family who get on a boat from India to go to Canada, though the boat sinks at sea, and the boy is basically the only survivor on a small life boat with animals. He ends up sailing across the ocean and having a huge adventure with a giant Bengal Tiger. Not only was it an excellent movie, but just amazing to watch in 3D.

  On Friday I ran again and then came home and cleaned up for a bit before walking to a Mexican restaurant called El Mecate. I had some Queso Fundido (melted cheese) with Tacos al trompo, which are the tacos here that I really like. I hadn’t ate much Mexican food since I arrived here in Monterrey so it was definitely time. Afterwards I walked up to Starbucks and had a frappuichino and a fruit bowl seeing as I’ve had very little fruit since arriving as well.

  I finally got in contact with the lady from Teleperformance and she told me the form I had given them was missing some data that the company needed to add and that now the migration place is closed until after New Year’s, so basically my documents won’t get delivered at least until sometime during the first week of January. I just can’t comprehend this because everything was ready December 14 and they had so much time to figure this out.

  This is beyond frustrating, because at the rate this is going I’m estimating I wouldn’t be able to start working until at the very least March. Everyone says I just have to be patient but it gets a little bit harder. At the very least I know I won’t have to bother calling the company for almost two weeks. It’s just unfortunate that because of all this I wasn’t able to make any plans for Christmas, but I’ll figure out something.

  After running at the park again yesterday I headed home and had a shower ant then headed to Las Galerias mall. I had a small lunch at Wok, a Japanese place, and then I went to Cinépolis to see Seven Psychopaths. It was a good movie but very, very, very weird. I had a frappuichino after and walked home and didn’t do too much the rest of the day. I walked up to Subway at night time, but the lady there told me they didn’t have anymore sandwiches only salads.

  I headed outside and a guy working at the gas station was talking to me and told me about a Chinese food place.  I shouldn’t have bothered, but I went there and the food didn’t even look all that appealing before I ordered it. It was covered in soooo much sauce and kind of spicy, and after eating some of it I can honestly say it was among the worst Chinese food I ever had. The order they made me was kind of heavy, so I’m so thankful I didn’t eat all of it.

  In fact I just ate about 1/4 of the food and through the rest in the garbage. There are lots of Chinese places here, so I really can’t imagine that place staying in business too long if that’s the kind of trash they are serving. I had Chinese food from a place in Lázaro Cárdenas that was prepared by Mexicans and it was so much better. The people in the restaurant I went to yesterday obviously need to return to China and take many classes to learn how to cook their own food properly !

  From what I’ve seen the next three days will be warm and sunny and then there will be a cool day, but not until after Christmas. I don’t know what my plans will be exactly for these days, but I’m here so I just have to make the best of the situation, and as long as things work out in the end I’ll be happy, even if they are taking forever. I want to encourage everyone to do something great for someone else sometime over the next few days. It doesn’t have to be anything huge, but just something to brighten someone’s day !

  I should have found a homeless person to give that Chinese food yesterday….. though honestly any homeless person deserves much better food than that garbage. I’m not even sure what I’ll do exactly, but I’ll think of something. Christmas is the time of giving and thinking of others so what better time of the year to do something for someone. I hope that everyone has an amazing Christmas and enjoys such wonderful food and time with their family and friends, and of course the odd gift as well.

  Some of us will have snow, some of us not, but that’s ok, snow only makes Christmas more Christmas, it doesn’t ruin a Christmas if there is none. I’m certainly not used to white Christmas’s anyways. I think in the last 15 years I’ve only seen two ! And I definitely won’t be seeing one this year ! So Merry Christmas to everyone know matter where you are, and I say so in a general way because I think Christmas has shown itself as a day that can be celebrated by anyone regardless of religious affiliation. For the next question:

  What will you be doing for Christmas this year ?

  I’ll leave you all with some pictures taken around the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. Merry Christmas and I’ll talk to you all on Wednesday, bye for now.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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