Mexico
Mexican Pastries
“If you love bread you’ll love Mexico,” said my boss at the Chilean restaurant in Vancouver who had lived in Mexico for seven years
This isn’t exactly the case. I find it extremely difficult to actually find bread in Puebla, and have distressingly found myself eating Bimbo much of the time, but in one thing [...]
El Viejo Verde in the Corner Office
The lazy person’s way to find work with amazingly little effort: make an excellent contact accidentally on the street, allow him to introduce you to all sorts of important people, and go for interviews until everyone involved is blue in the face and someone, somewhere, knows someone who will give you a job.
In this way [...]
Ex-wrestlers and Civil Servants
The old man I’d met on the street turned out to be exactly the type of person you want in your court. He did disappear after about a week, and I didn’t see him for almost a month, but not before he’d arranged me interviews with the Secretary of Tourism, the Secretary of Employment, [...]
Job-hunting the Unconventional Way
About two weeks after arriving in Puebla, it was time to voluntarily end my joyous state of permanent vacation and look for a job. That said, the decision was no sooner made than a million and one more interesting ways to spend the day presented themselves. I lied to myself that I would [...]
Military on the Streets
We drifted down the stairs early one day, grumpy about having to make photocopies at 8:30 in the morning, considering whether or not to go for a pastry on the way back. Puebla mornings are sunny but still chilly, and the streets are deserted. Except for a policeman. And another policeman. [...]
Vocho-land
Task # 1 in Mexico quickly became buying a car. Well, probably on my mental list of priorities this should have come somewhere after getting a bank account, a working visa and other more recognizably essential things. But all these things proved to be so difficult that we tried to forget about them [...]
Nueva Aventura
This was the best idea in the world. Even during take-off I had that old excited feeling that I don’t get much any more when flying. The absolute delight of leaving a place without feeling pulled into pieces over it, knowing I’ll miss certain things, but not too many. And the feeling [...]
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