The other day I was riding a bus to my church and at a red light the bus driver got out of the bus ran to the pay phone and then proceeded to talk on the phone for about two cycles of the light while the whole bus just kinda waited there for him to come back. Things like that always just kinda make me laugh. It wasn’t the first time something like that happened when I was on a bus, once the driver got out ran to an OXXO (like a 7-11) and got a soda and a bag of chips and then came back to keep driving. I think at one point things like this might have made me mad that I was losing time or something, but now I just find them funny and can only chuckle a little every time something like that happens.
On a second unrelated note, something that does make me upset is when people are really condescending to me and try to speak to me in broken English when it is clear that I speak Spanish, but that they just don’t quite get it. I guess this is why in the US I never address someone in Spanish without first trying English or knowing for sure that they don’t speak English because at least for me it can be very insulting to just assume by looking at you that you can’t or can speak a certain language. I guess I shouldn’t let it bother me, but it’s just one of my pet peeves.
Today is May Day, which is pretty much the international labor day outside of the US, which is sort of ironic because it is on the first to commemorate labor strikers killed in Chicago in 1886, but thanks to the cold war when the Soviet Union and the rest of the communist nations adopted it as their labor day as well, we moved ours to September. Here in Mexico I think almost by law, or if not law tradition that if there is holiday midweek they have to or at least almost always connect it to a weekend, so I get off on Friday too. I am hoping to go somewhere with a bunch of people from my youth group, but not sure what the plans are as of yet. Also, here in Puebla we get Monday off for Cinco de Mayo, which celebrates a battle here in Puebla against the French (not independence day which is on Sept. 16). It’s funny because 5 de Mayo is celebrated more in the US than in Mexico. Here it is only celebrated in Puebla and even here definitely not one of the biggest holidays of the year. The president comes and there is a big parade, but it is not the same sort of holiday as Independence day or some other more important ones. I have been sharing with my students various Corona (beer) commercials about 5 de Mayo and they are all shocked how much people in the US “celebrate” 5 de Mayo because for them it is really not that big of a deal.
I can’t believe how fast the time has passed and that tomorrow is already May and that now I have less than 2 weeks to be here in Puebla. I hope all is good with you. Much love and God bless.
you can click here to see some new pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2262302&l=e6df8&id=5706269Sharing the wordless bracelet with a bunch of kids in a really small rural poor town about two hours outside of Puebla
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