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domingo, julio 08, 2007

OK, so we can do mass in Latin.

OK, it has become easier to do the holy mass in Latin again. Basically, the pope's decree has made it so you don't need permission from your bishop to have a traditional pre-Vatican II Mass in Latin.  For me, as someone with a degree in linguistics, and going to mass again after a three-year absence, I am curious what the mass sounds like in Latin and do not mind hearing the mass in foreign languages.   After all, when I am in Mexico, the mass is always in what is, to me, a foregin language.  One I have learned and can sometimes understand, but, still, a foreign language.

Indeed, I normally go to Spanish mass if there is one nearby and as convenient as English mass.  For example, I went to Spanish mass this Sunday; I go to daily mass in English since that is the language for daily mass in the parish near my house here. In Mexico, I couldn't go to mass in English (nor, as far as I can tell, Latin) even if I wanted to.  Here, in San Diego, I can go to mass in English, Spanish, Latin, and probably can go in a number of other ethnic languages.

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lunes, julio 02, 2007

I'm returning to the US tomorrow

Since they have finally (mostly) finished the freeway in Nayarit, allowing me to travel more quickly through this state, I was able to get to Santa Ana from Puebla in 2 instead of 3 days. Basically, it used to be that the bottleneck of the road trip between Puebla and the US was Nayarit, since they didn't finish the toll freeway in this state. Well, it's now mostly finished, allowing me to shave a day from my trip. Nice, very nice.

So, I'll be returning to the US tomorrow.

I will return to Mexico again after being in the US for three weeks or so. My girlfriend, after all, is in Mexico. But, I haven't seen my family for half a year, so it's good to be in the states again.

- Sam

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sábado, mayo 05, 2007

Cinco de Mayo in Mexico

Categoría: Viajes y lugares

Finally, I have the opertunity to be in Mexico for Cinco de Mayo. Wonderful. So, I am spending today...working. Yes, working. Neither of my students today cancelled classes. However, I didn't miss the parade. What happened was that the bus I take to work had to stop because all of the students getting ready for the parade were downtown. So I ended up walking through hundreds of students from dozens of elementry, middle, and high schools dressed up in marching band uniforms for the big Cinco de Mayo parade in Puebla. I had to walk through this for about 20 minutes before I was the other side of everything, so I could take a bug that would take me rest of the way to work.

By the time I was done teaching this morning, the parade already ended.

I have heard people joke that Cinco de Mayo celebrates "A victory in a battle no one knows about that happened in a city no one has heard of". Well, I can tell you that Puebla (where, yes, the battle did happen) is not exactly a "city no one has heard of". It's Mexico's fouth larges city, with over 2 million people living in its greater metropolitan area. Also happens to be where I am living right now.

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martes, mayo 01, 2007

Abortion is now legal in Mexico!

Well, I never thought I would see this day. Abortion is now legal in Mexico. Last Thursday, in Mexico city, the city assembly voted to make abortion legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. This only affects Mexico City, but people from nearby towns, such as where I am, can now go to Mexico City to get their abortion.

Maybe pigs will be flying over Mexico City soon.

As you can imagine, some Catholics are not happy about this. The priest at my church went basically ballistic during his homily this Sunday, tell us stories of the heartbeat of a 22 week old fetus that was aborted, and about how abortion is selfish, and how even though it's legal up to 12 weeks now, this will eventually be extended to nine months, and how it's not man's place to determine the value of life. Ugh. The girl I go to mass with had her arms crossed and a frown on her face--she is pro-choice and thinks the contraception is a good idea.

So, yeah, I'm going to mass again, but that doesn't make me a foaming at the moth anti-birth control and abortion fanatic. Not yet, anyway.

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miércoles, abril 11, 2007

Taking a shower in Mexico, part 2

My adventures with trying to take a shower in Mexico continue.  A few weeks ago, I turned on the heater and waited 30 minutes for the water to heat up so I could take a shower.  I then entered the bathroom, turned that faucet to let out the water and... no water. Ugh!

So I found the extension cord, plug in the pump, turn on the heater again, and wait another 30 minutes to take my shower.

20 minutes later, I hear the most horrible sound eminating from the pipes.

Making a mad dash upstairs, to where the pipes enter the apartment, I see the pipe shaking like mad.

I touch the pipe , and realize what had happened. Running downstairs into the house again, I open up the hot water valve in the kitchen and steam comes rushing out.

I, as quickly as possible, turn off the water heater and open up an outdoors water valve to let all of the steam escape.  Once all of the steam got out, I was able to take a nice, hot shower.

Last week, I again turned on the water heater, waited 20 minutes and... no water.  Again.  So, this time I tried something new.  I turned on the heater again and also turned on the pump to let water in to the house.  I was able to take an acceptable shower this way.  As the pump moved the water in, the heater heated up the water, and I was able to shower.  Kinda.  Sorta.  The problem was that this didn´t give me as much water pressure as I normally get for my showers.  Such is life in México.

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miércoles, marzo 14, 2007

I'm on a diet again

Today, a rather pretty girl at the school where I get internet access complimented me on my loss of weight. Indeed, I now need to wear tight belts in order to wear all of my old pants; they otherwise fall off of me. I have lost about 4 kilograms (8-9 pounds) in the last month and a half with this diet.

The diet is the Body for Life diet, and its basic principles are:

A diet very high in protien, healthy carbs, and almost no fat.

Eat six small meals a day instead of three large meals. This allows me to eat less without hunger pangs.

A daily exercise program at a gym.

A typical day will consist of me eating a bowl of pasta two or three times a day, along with protien powder. I will, for my other three mini-meals, eat a combination of fruits, nonfat yogurt, Slim-Fast, and rice. I get my protien powder and Slim-Fast over at Costco (yes, they have that here in Mexico). The best protien powder seems to be MaxiWhey's naturally flavoured protien, which isn't artifically sweetened. I don't know why they add aspartame to protien powder; naturally flavoured whey protien is quite sweet (it has that supersweet taste that lactose-free milk has) and the artificial sweeteners taste horrible.

When I go to the gym, I only lift weights. I find that lifting weights expends a lot of energy, and that it is not necessary to use a treadmill. Since I consume 70-100 grams of protien a day, I work out each significant muscle group in my body each day (biceps, tricepts, quads, hamstrings, abs, back, etc.) I usually stay at the gym for an hour or a little longer.

The Body for Life program is not for eveyone. In particular, the large amount of protien is hard on the kidneys, so do not use this program if you have any known kidney problems. For more details on the Body for Life diet, see this evaluation by medical experts.

- Sam

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lunes, marzo 05, 2007

Do you need to write a paper for political science? Here you go

Do you need to write an essay for some political science class? Well, here you go! Just have the computer do it for you without changing the content level of a political science paper. If you need to write two or three papers, just reload the page two or three times!

- Samuel

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martes, febrero 27, 2007

Public transportation: Puebla vs. California

The other day, I was listening to the radio and they were talking about how the public transportation in Puebla has problems. I laughed. I guess these people have never been in California. Let us compare taking the bus downtown in California with taking the bus downtown in Puebla.

In Puebla:

Go to the bus stop across the street from my housing community.

With anywhere from ten seconds to five minutes for a bus

Pay 36 cents to take the bus

Take the bus downtown

Walk anywhere from two to five block to get where I want to go

In California, this was the process for taking the bus when I went to college at Las Positas College before I had a car:

Time when I left the house to catch the bus when it arrived once an hour.

Walk anywhere from half a mile to well over a mile to the bus stop

Pay 75 cents for the bus ride

Take the bus to a transfer point, asking the bus driver to radio the bus I would transfer on to to wait for me.

Take another bus to the college.

Take classes, then hang out or write papers on the computers in the lab (this was before Dell made it readily affordable to have a computer at home)

Wait 30 minutes to an hour to take a bus home

Forget about taking night classes because the bus to the college stopped running around 6pm

So, yes, Puebla has problems, but public transportaion is not one of them.

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miércoles, febrero 21, 2007

How to take a shower in Mexico

In America, when you want to wake and take a shower, it's really easy:

Wake up

In a half-asleep state of mind, enter bathroom

Twist faucet

Wait 10 seconds for hot water to come through pipes

Shower

In Mexico, it works more like this:

Wake up

Get dressed

Find the matches

Go outside and try and turn on the pilot light in the water heater

Try again, since the light didn't stay on the first time

Turn up the gas to start heating water

Heat up breakfast while waiting the 20 minutes one needs to heat the water. Did I mention there isn't a microwave?

Eat breakfast

Finally enter the bathroom

Twist the faucet and realize that noone pumped the water in to the house's water supply this morning

Turn on the pump (which necesitates finding the extension cord, an electric outlet that actually works, the plug for the pump, and finally plugging it in)

Wait another 20 minutes for the water to pump (While updating my resume)

Finally, turn on the faucet and get...only a tiny dribble of water.

Realize that this is, using enough creativity, enough water to wash with.

If I wanted to take a bath, it's a little more difficult, considering that a bathtub (The Spanish word for "Bathtub" is, strangely enough, tina) is nowhere to be fond where I live. Maybe Tina Turner can give me one.

Another day in the life here...

- Sam

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jueves, febrero 15, 2007

OK, some more about Puebla

OK, I should probably tell you guys a little more about where I'm living, Puebla Mexico.  Puebla is in the tropics, located only 19 degrees north of the equator.  It's due south of Texas, 98 degrees longitude west.  As a comparison, the south of Hawaii's big island also has a latitude of 19 degrees north.  San Diego, in comparison, is some 33 degress north.

Things, however, are not unbearably hot here, since Puebla is over 7000 feet above sea level.  Indeed, nights are sometimes even cold enough that condensation gets on my car.  A large number of fruits, such as bananas, cantelopes, papays, watermelons, oranges, and pineapples, are non-seasonal and are available year-round.  In San Diego, days are only 10 hours long and the sun sets around 5pm in the winter; in Puebla, days are still 11 hours long during winter.

Puebla is Mexico's fourth largest city, with over 2 million people living in Puebla and its suburbs (Tlaxcala, Cholulua, etc.)  With Mexico's large population expansion, Puebla has grown a lot in the last century.  Just 70 years ago, what is today considered downtown Puebla (in a neighborhood called "El Carmen") was the outskirts of town, which is a quick five to ten minutes walk from the town center square.

Puebla is a town that has all of the advantages of a well to do town: Access to a number of gyms, computer supplies, and many differnet types of food one can buy--with few of the disadvantages.  Crime is fairly low here, and pollution is not nearly as bad as Mexico City's pollution.

Puebla's claim to fame is being the place where the Cinco de Mayo battle happened.  It was also a place where US soldiers stayed for three months resupplying before they invaded Mexico City and took half of Mexico's land in the resulting peace treaty.

Puebla is a wonderful place to live and enjoy life!

- Sam

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