Day: January 20, 2010

The Streets Were Paved with Opal

A few days ago I learned some idiomatic Spanish. Prestame unos varos = Sort of like “Feast me some money” Lana = bucks (as in $$$) Interestingly, it was the director of the English program at the University of Hildalgo who taught me that. I kind of wish I hadn’t taken everyone’s advice to go to San Miguel de Allende from Guanajuato. I mean, it was okay, but I’m kind of cobblestoned- and adobed-out. I’d […]

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The Kindness of Strangers

One has to stay on one’s toes here, ready to leap suddenly in a different direction. Instead of the leisurely morning I’d been told last night that I’d have today, I had to head out the door an hour early and with only five minutes’ notice. I was to get a ride to the bus station, but instead I was directed to a colectivo. To get in I had to shrink myself, and as I […]

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