December 26, 2012

• Report # 955

  Hey everyone, I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas. Like usual it’s passed by super fast and now a whole other year is about to begin…. though I’m sure 2013 will zoom by rapidly as well. After going for my run in Fundidora Park on Sunday morning I came home and had a shower and walked up to the Las Galerias mall. Like I imagined it was incredibly busy and there were no seats anywhere. It’s just amazing how many people truly do wait until almost the last possible minute to buy their gifts.

  I walked across the street and there was a plaza with another sort of mall which I had never actually been to, Plaza Real. There was a movie theatre there as well though they were playing all of the same movies so I didn’t bother checking anything out. There was an Applebees in the plaza and I had wanted to go there for some time so I did go. It certainly wasn’t as good as I remembered.

  It was a pretty expensive place for here, and the fries were like fish and chip fries. I don’t think I’ll be returning ! I actually walked to Helado Sultana after which is an ice cream place and ordered a double scoop waffle cone. I knew that it would be huge as I had been there before, but it was a lot larger than I remembered. Only a lunatic would order the three scoop size. I eat ice cream very rarely as many times I don’t feel so great after having it, but this time I ended up being ok.

  On the 24th I once again ran at Fundidora park and headed home and had a shower and went to Las Galerias. My days are soooo simular I really need something new to do. I’d like to find some more places to take pictures but there aren’t too many more that would be super easy for me to get to. I wanted to go to another university here, but it would even be harder to go and take pictures as they have lots of security and they are worried about people coming and kidnapping university students or something,  so it’s really not worth the bother !

  I had lunch at an Asian restaurant called Wok. I think this place is run by Mexicans, but the food is actually very good. They never put enough wontons into the wonton soup, but it has a nice flavour. Afterwards I walked around the mall for a while and saw there was a music/dvd store. I went in and bought the Simpsons season 15 dvd. Since I have all the other ones that they released I had to buy it. The episodes are fun to watch when I don’t have much else to do and much better than on the TV without all the commercials.

  I ended up going to see the Odd Life of Timothy Green. I hadn’t thought much about seeing it, but there was nothing much else on. It was an interesting movie though very odd. About some kid who basically comes out of the garden and eventually disappears again. Very weird, but it’s a movie, so I guess it doesn’t really have to make sense. I picked up a frappuichino after from Santa Clara and headed back home.

  I thought I would be spending the Christmas Eve night alone, but a friend invited me to go with her family to one of her aunt’s places to spend the evening. I had a shower and got ready quickly and took the Metro to a station where they picked me up. It was definitely a much different Christmas dinner than I was used to, but it was very good. I had roasted chicken and spaghetti with a soup, and afterwards I was very full.

  Everyone was singing Karaoke, and while I didn’t know any of the songs, I did pick out a few that I had heard and tried to sing them. It’s definitely hard work to be a singer and wow it hurts the voice so easily after so little. It didn’t help that I had no clue what I was doing, but it was fun. There was one guy who was there who had a few too many beers and he was joking around a lot.

  Every time a fire cracker went off he pretended like he was shot and he was joking that I lived really close to Santa Claus. Though I suppose if Santa Claus was really real he would live much, much, much more north in the North Pole ! We went to the house of another one of my friend’s aunts after and stayed there a while and we finally headed home after 3:00 am. I stayed the night at her house and slept until almost 11:00 am. In the early afternoon they were going to their grandfather’s house, so I took a taxi to the metro and headed home.

  Overall it was a fun night and I was very happy to be invited. It was great to spend a Christmas with some people and enjoy good food and company. Here in Mexico most people have the big Christmas dinner late on the 24th into the early hours of the 25th, and then the rest of the day there isn’t really anymore big dinners. I decided to continue with my running so I headed to Fundidora Park around 3:00 pm and I did my normal run.

  It must have been the hottest Christmas that I had experienced in my life as they said it got up to 32 C (90 F). There was a great breeze though so it didn’t feel too hot when I was running. Seeing as there wasn’t many places open to eat I just stopped in at Carl’s Jr. before heading home and having a relaxing evening. I won’t find anything about my work visa documents until after January 3, so basically I have over a week to not worry about that I really should look up some places and figure out some more things to do in this time !

  Yesterday I was reading one of the newspapers from here and one of the columnists was writing about how she wanted to see The Life of Pi in theatres here in Mexico. She went to one of the theatres and she asked for a ticket to that movie with the literal Spanish Translation “La Vida de Pi” and the person had a weird look on their face. The theatre employee thought the person was asking about VIP, which is a place in the theatres here where a person can pay more money and sit in a theatre with comfortable seats and much more room.

  After trying to say the title again, the movie theatre employee said that movie was not playing. Finally the columnist said the name of the movie as it’s called in Spanish “Una Aventura Extraordinaria” and then she was understood. This just got me thinking about misunderstandings and how silly they can be sometimes. I remember a few years I went to Dairy Queen and ordered a Blizzard, but for some reason the girl thought I had ordered four. After explaining to her that I only ordered one she appeared angry with me saying I said four. She was kind of pulled away and another girl just gave me one and I drove off.

  When I was 10 years old I was walking on the beach in Hawaii and some guys, who were probably in their 20′s asked me where I was from. I said Surrey, which is my city, and they responded “oh Missouri, so far away.” or something to that effect. The same sort of thing happened when I was in California attending a 4th of July party at Cal State University in Los Angeles. Someone asked me where I was from and I said B.C., which are the initials for British Columbia… and the guy heard me as D.C. as in Washington D.C.

  Sometimes these small misunderstandings really don’t signify anything and don’t create any problems, but when it comes to people dealing with buying things, a person needs to be clear or they could end up pretty unhappy. For the next question:

  Have you ever been misunderstood before or had any silly things happen to you from based on something you’ve said or requested before ?
  
  Today I’ll leave you all with some pictures from Parque Niños Heroes. I actually don’t have too many more pictures to upload on here. While I do want to get out and take more pictures, I wouldn’t mind having at least a few entries without having to post them, as it does take a while. I wish everyone all of the best with everything. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Saturday, bye for now.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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