Daily life in Oaxaca
Hola Amig@s,
I am writing from the little internet cafe across the street from my apartment in the trees of Oaxaca. I am living in a little studio on the second floor that looks out onto some very large avocado and other unidentified fruit trees, and feels a bit like a treehouse. As my friend Jorge pointed out, I could, if I were so inclined, climb out of my window onto a tree branch and in through the window of my neighbor across the courtyard. Although everyone around is very friendly, I am pretty sure that that kind of entry would not be very well received. I have settled into a routine here, which is in someways less exciting than the adventuring that I have been doing in the last couple of months, but also less exhausting. I didn`t completely finish my story of Nicaragua because I didn`t know how to write about it, but the short version is that while I was staying with Alejandra, Eloi, Walter and Santiago 2 members of their family passed away. This was of course a very intense time to be with them, and although it felt a bit akward to be a visitor during their most intimate moments of grief, it also brought me closer to them.
So far here I have been taking classes in the morning, wandering and trying different cafes in the afternoon, and taking dance classes in the evenings. I am a little disappointed because I was invited to be in a salsa exhibition, but the dates are November 3-8, meaning it begins the day after I am scheduled to leave. It would have been really fun to rehearse and learn a routine, etc. but I have very important civic duties I must attend to on the 4th. Speaking of which, last night I got my first glimpse of Sarah Palin, who was not as clueless as she apparently had been in other interviews. In fact she scared me a bit because I can see how she would have great appeal to some people. Last night was the first time that I have seen anything related to the election. i am hoping to catch one of the debates between Obama and McCain.
I am writing from the little internet cafe across the street from my apartment in the trees of Oaxaca. I am living in a little studio on the second floor that looks out onto some very large avocado and other unidentified fruit trees, and feels a bit like a treehouse. As my friend Jorge pointed out, I could, if I were so inclined, climb out of my window onto a tree branch and in through the window of my neighbor across the courtyard. Although everyone around is very friendly, I am pretty sure that that kind of entry would not be very well received. I have settled into a routine here, which is in someways less exciting than the adventuring that I have been doing in the last couple of months, but also less exhausting. I didn`t completely finish my story of Nicaragua because I didn`t know how to write about it, but the short version is that while I was staying with Alejandra, Eloi, Walter and Santiago 2 members of their family passed away. This was of course a very intense time to be with them, and although it felt a bit akward to be a visitor during their most intimate moments of grief, it also brought me closer to them.
So far here I have been taking classes in the morning, wandering and trying different cafes in the afternoon, and taking dance classes in the evenings. I am a little disappointed because I was invited to be in a salsa exhibition, but the dates are November 3-8, meaning it begins the day after I am scheduled to leave. It would have been really fun to rehearse and learn a routine, etc. but I have very important civic duties I must attend to on the 4th. Speaking of which, last night I got my first glimpse of Sarah Palin, who was not as clueless as she apparently had been in other interviews. In fact she scared me a bit because I can see how she would have great appeal to some people. Last night was the first time that I have seen anything related to the election. i am hoping to catch one of the debates between Obama and McCain.
posted by Eva Hathaway at 2:39 PM
2 Comments:
This woman is a good actor, and was given instructions on the kind of winking and colloquial jargon which ignorant people react to. The scarier part is the type of shit that she was talking. Talk about muck-raking on Obama. She is basically a headpiece for the republican pig, not to mention that she is for just about everything I am against.
The other thing that is dangerous about her, is that she is flaming the racist passions of her people, saying Barak just "isn't like us", while people in the audience yell, "Terrorist" and "Kill him!" without so much as a rebuke from her - just another wink. Well, when all this hate is uncorked by this "Christian woman", how are they going to put it back in the bottle? I think we need to pray for the souls of those redneck m&#*$^%&$^%#s!
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