Got hot water - broke the pipes. Back to no hot water.
Payday today. Didn´t get paid and won´t until next Tuesday at the earliest.

I love having no money and living in Mexico. I spared myself about five minutes during which I cried like a little girl and then gave up.

I just want to go to bed.

Another and another life

So much has changed and much remains the same in the last little while.
I´ve moved into a new apartment now - we´re entirely settled except for a hot water heater that has refused to work properly, making cold showers a daily (lol every second day for me) norm. We´re hoping to get it fixed tonight actually. We had a leakage problem from the torrential downpours that plague this city in the rainy season, our livingroom looked like outside in a manner of speaking - much closer to the water that flows as high as the curb down the street. There are pictures of course, which I haven´t been able to upload. That problem seems to have been resolved and rainy season is coming to it´s conclusion.
The mosquitoes are ferocious however and I´ve been more bitten than I care to think about it. Now my legs are a mash of bruises and bites - not that I let them show too often because people in shorts are not common here.

My life has become a sort of domestic dream for the poor. I handwash clothes everyday the sun comes up - I shop at the market or take the long treck down to Walmart to get things like chedder cheese (hard to find in a country that likes its cheese like it likes its women: white). I still don´t have any dishes so I have an intent on purchasing more today.

Two days ago a hippy road by on a bike and offered me an orange. I´m so used to things costing that I was slightly unwilling to take it. His broken English managed to explain that it was a very special orange - a ceremonial orange. It brings people together. There were drums involved somehow. I´m hoping it´s full of lsd or something ahahah naw... I´m still trying to decide if I want to eat it. I´m not big into oranges. Too pulpy.

We´ve seen lots of interesting things in our new neighbourhood. There is a lot of construction right now and two main markets which aren´t terribly far from the house. The house has pink faux-suede curtains and sofas. A full description could not match what it looks like. But it´s ours.

My job is alright. So far I don´t have very many hours, which means this first month is going to be pretty challanging for me. I teach business english on-site, which means away from the school. And sometimes its FAR away from my house, but at most an hour on a bus. For example I work at Siemens private tutoring an uppermanagment gentleman who was put into the wrong level and doesn´t have much of an interest in formal class. It´s actually pleasant and the pay is good. I do need more hours drastically though - I´m just hoping to wait until after my birthday to get them. Mexican independance is coming very shortly anyways so there´s a bit of vacation around my birthday anyways.

Well, time is running out. I´m planning my next tattoo at this point as three hours costed a friend about $130 which is awesome for the job the guy did. It was gorgeous.

We´re looking into getting a phone line in the house soon so I hope to talk to you all and I get two weeks at Christmas, over one of which will be spent in Toronto.

Looking foward to it.