You can actually get a good deal here for less than $200 a month. Our apartment has a spacious bedroom, a bathroom with a shower (agua caliente 24 horas), an outside kitchen with 4 burner stove, refridgerator (!!), a sink and a table and chairs. There´s even electricity! We have the whole rooftop garden of the house below to hang out on and a cool spiral staircase to climb. From our roof we have a good view of the fireworks that go off every night and sometimes in the wee hours of the morning. I´m not sure exactly what
they´re celebrating at 5am. So we have a lot of things to buy now that we have a place to put them. Like food, orange presses, dust pan, blender, flowers, and whatever else we can fit. At the bottom there is a picture of Kira after a trip to the market.
We also found a great small spanish school where we will take spanish classes while we´re here. It´s run be a very nice woman named Flor (Flower). In addition, we go to a library on Saturdays to speak with Oaxaqueños in English and Spanish. Last Saturday I talked with a guy for an hour about China and how everything here is made there. He said that even statues of the Virgin of Guadalupe are made in China. I told him that in the U.S. you can find American flags that are made in China. He also wanted to know why the U.S., with all its technology and money can´t put out a fire in California. I really wasn´t sure what to tell him.
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I love it! I wish we could have Thanksgiving there. Kira looks very comfortably native-like in that picture - very at home. That's a pretty classy address you have there. If we want to put something in the mail to you, say like leftovers or Wal-Mart coupons, if we used that address would it be pretty certain to reach you? Do we need a postal code?
You would probably need a postal code. I have it but it´s at home. I´ll try to remember it next time.
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