just shy of two and a half weeks of vacation, ten days of which i spent at home and still i didnt get half of what i needed to get done ( Read more... )

ive decided to take a couple more days at home in kc, meaning i wont be coming through san antonio at the end of the month. thankfully ive made enough scrill to take a three or four day weekend to visit sometime soon. it was going to be just too much of a struggle to get everything done that i needed to in such a short time at home / the states, ( Read more... )

im putting pics on the facebook as we speak...
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today i got my working papers! so its offical, no more need for a turist visa for this one, im a resident alien.

work is still work. i did directly disobey my good friend and head teacher on thanksgiving, she was pissed. it was all over teaching preschool ( Read more... )

the plan is to be back in san antonio on the 28th at the latest (im shooting for the 27th, but that might not be possible). ill be in town for two days and leave on the 30 for queretaro. katia and i are planning to meet at our house in smda on that day, spend the night and then leave the next day, on the 31st, for the coast of michoacan. we are ( Read more... )

we finally killed our third mouse which means we finished our day of the dead alter just in time ( Read more... )

ive begun to make plans for the little time off i will receive over christmas/the new year. i will head to mexico city on the last day of school to catch a flight to kc. my parents have generously purchased a round trip ticket for me from mexico to kc and back (i have to front my stop through san antonio). i will be taking two days and two nights ( Read more... )

i just got back from an exhilarating weekend in guanajuato. this entire month has been the cervantino fest in our lovely state capital. cervantino from cervantes, obviously, is reputed to be the biggest arts festival in the americas. what did i see? not much art, per se, but i did see a hell of a lot of street performance and quixotes ( Read more... )

yeah, thats right. one of my friends, jose antonio (hes 4 years old), cannot to save his life say my name correctly. so, you bet he calls me drack. every day. buenos dias, drack. drack, me ayudas quitar la chamara? drack, drack, drack ( Read more... )