Buenos noches amigos!! Happy July 7...did you run with the bulls today...in Pamplona?
I had a GREAT walk through town and had to write down these thoughts.
I have no doubts about loving la Crucecita y Mexico and it’s people. But my love for this town is confirmed when I went out for a quick walk to pick up some good for dinner.
It starts with hola to Gatos Negro y Blanco, then hola to Ricardo at the gate. He is excited to tell me about the partido de futbol that is playing and it’s 1-1 score. It happens that every TV I pass on my walk is playing the same game and everyone is enthralled.
Onto buy some pan and I pass Carlos at his tienda de camarone. Como estas and he wants to explain to me how the verbo hablo is conjugated in all tenses. Ja ja ja.
Pick up the pan and a little treat…drop the $10 pesos and off to buy some mushrooms para la cena. Hola to Vicky (madre de Daniel) as she is working at the joyeria. On the same block is Roberto’s segundo tienda (second store) and sitting at the front door is his wife with their 4 or 5 month old niño. I say hola and tell them the niño is bonito and then confirm 3 meses mas for our niño. That gets them excited (big smiles and laughs) and I am off to the super mercado.
Grab the goods and as I am walking home I pass Fruver, where we buy our verdura y fruta. TV blaring and the score is still 1-1. I then pass one of those door ways where the family seems to sell goods from a 3 foot wide spot. They are selling pollo y postres and all 4 of the peeps there are eating helado cones from the hombre who walks around selling helado. It is a humorous scene.
Back to our gate and I ask Ricardo if he works anywhere else…answer is no. I bet he makes less then $1000 pesos a week and ask him if he wants to make some money helping us move in septiembre. His answer is sí y immediately wants to know what day. No se and I will get back to him.
Grabbed a skinny Gato Blanco and gave her some leche…she is finicky and did not finish it. But she hangs outside our door, saying hola to us and confirming for me that I love living here.
Hola? Who’s there?
And while we love it here, one Huatulco resident is following his heart…to Edmonton. (Edmonton? Really Gabriel?) Gabriel is a Mexican triathlete who has a Canadian novia and is making the plunge by moving norte. He has his immigration papers and leaves tomorrow.
We are excited for him and he stopped by tonight to say adios and as where in Vancouver he can take his “kitty” for a walk as he has 8 hours between flights. Lol A nice guy, trained as a paramedic here…not sure what that will allow him to do for work in Edmonton.
¡Buen viaje y buena suerte!
Futbol-soccer UPDATE
Mexico beat Germany 3-2 in the U-17 World Cup…it was noisy here in the complex!!
Onto our dia. It started with 2 hours in clase and boy does my head hurt. Me duele la cabeza!!
Por que? Yup…all about the verbos. And today we had more irregular and stem changing verbos. En español they are called los verbos con cambios en la raiz y con cambios ortograficos. Long and short, spelling and stem changes.
For example.
Tomar is a regular verb meaning to take or to drink. In preterito (past) tense, all you do is change the ending.
tomé, tomaste, tomó, tomamos and tomaron. (tom is the stem, drop the ar and you add the 5 endings)
Some verbos have a change in only the first person.
Buscar…to look for.
busqué (drop the car, add qu and the é) but then is like a regular verb for the other 4…drop the ar and add the ending, leaving you with buscaste, buscó, buscamos y buscaron.
Some verbs have a stem change…but only in the 3rd person forms.
Dormir…to sleep. Normally for a verbo that ends in IR, you drop the IR and add í, iste, ió, imos o ieron. But with dormir, you also change the stem for 3rd person singular y plural.
dormí, dormiste, durmió (note the o is now a u), dormimos y durmieron (note the change from o to u).
Are there any rules to which verbos change or are regular? Nope. Ja ja ja. But maestra tells us that all new verbos moving forward have become “ar” verbos as they are the easiest to conjugate. Phew.
And then today’s verbos
Poder…to be able to…turns into pude (I was able to), pudiste (you were able to), pudo (he, she, formal “you” were able to), pudimos (we were able to) and pudieron (plurals of he, she and formal were able to).
Pudimos nadar en la alberca…we were able to swim in the pool.
Painful stuff.
After 2 hours we walked out as zombies, knowing we had a lunch to go to and practicamos español.
But first Che…no ah-ha’s there. We have had bad luck with the “real” milk and Bexico has found some UHT that she likes…so we ended up buying some of that. Good until 2013 I think….ja ja ja.
By the time we got home, it was 1130am and la comida was at 1pm…no time for a work out before lunch and to be honest…by the time lunch was completed at 230pm…it was too late for workout.
Headed out for lunch and we have decided it will be the last session we join. It was nice to talk to the university student and find out about her life, but it was not worth the interruption in the middle of our day. So much so an interruption, that at 920pm, Bexico is still hard at work in her oficina.
The meal itself was a “carta de dia”…menu of the day, and at $50 pesos, it was a good deal…but the food was only so so. Had a neat quesadilla…small corn tortilla, filled with papas puree and then deep fried…not quite a perogie.
The young Mexican lady was not too shy and spoke very good ingles…even correcting herself when she made a mistake. She has very good professors at the university, but true to many publico (and possibly privado) escuelas, her ingles teacher there was not very good.
The senorita is studying tourism and actually wants to work in Quebec so she can also learn French. Who knew?
It was a sunny day all the way until 330pm…so instead of el gimnasio…it was alberca time!! And then a siesta…maybe I was tired because I did not work out? Who knows?
Bexico was in her oficina most of the afternoon and early evening. She stopped to make her cena…some AoF stir fry and I ate some molida res con salsa tomate…ground beef in tomato sauce.
930pm and you are caught up. The pool is cerrado (closes at 9pm), but Bexico is headed down for a secreto swim because her pies (feet…pronounced p.s.) are puffy!!!
No gym…not many fotos…lo siento.
With the lluvia, comes the wild life. Lots of geckos and mosquitos…and this guy on the stairway.
Not a tiny moth!!
Talking about wildlife…here is a great link to a 4 minute video from one of Canada’s national parks.
Misc...
Paid a few utility bills. Other then electricidad…it is sooo cheap to live here. And we have not put any gas in the camioneta in almost a month!!
La factura de gas natural hace dos meses fue $341 pesos or $29 Cdn, while the water bill via Fonatur was only $131 pesos or $11 Cdn for 2 months. On top of that we do spend $50 pesos a week for our garrafon de agua for drinking purposes.
Our viernes (mañana)? Clase 9-12, el gimnasio and we have the partido de futbol at 740pm. Lots of work for Bexico….she has a lead on another contract.
Hasta mañana amigos.
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