I got sick on Saturday. Lay in bed all night with stomach cramps - not how I envisioned my last Saturday night here. Got the cramps under control Sunday afternoon w/ 2 Tylenol. I also met a guy last night in a bar (Kirk) who spent 2 years in Guatemala with the peace corps. He's lived for four years down here, and work in - online marketing (Phil, if you need someone for your sample ...). He gave me some awesome tips, for example that the pacific coast is fairly laim until you reach Costa Rica, and that the eastern part of Guatemala is the pretty part. So I think I'll adjust my travel schedule based on that.
I also discovered, to my big disappointment, that the Mexican K-12 education system is not nearly as good as I thought it was. I tutored my friend Adriana's son for the math part of their university entrance exam here. Even though he is a bright kid and seems to be catching on quickly, I cannot forgive their school system that a graduating senior is barely familiar with the sine, cosine and tangent functions. So far for that.
Yesterday I went with my new buddy Josh to "El Ring" - a dance club that, to be politically correct, does not cater to the upper class, and in which we were the only two gringos. It got exciting, too: first a bunch of guys started a fight, and ten minutes later two girls started a fight on the dance floor. I loved it! ;-)
By for now. Next blog might come from Guatemala.
Joe
(Sorry - no new pictures - forgot the camera in the car)
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Sine, cosine, and WHAT functions? Dude, don't forget that YOU are a math genius... WE are just ordinary people. I'm already glad I can do percentages. :-)
ReplyDeleteGo get some Lomotil before you leave Mexico. That stuff is the shit.
Have fun in Guatemala!
+Wolle
Sine is a Bangladeshi women`s name popular in Mexico, and it should be cousine, not cosine, you morron. Tangent is latin and should be written Tang ent, and it means "all algae" or in common English "seaweed is good for your stomach." No wonder the poor boy doesn't understand a word if you start talking about math, which is completely unrelated to the topic.
ReplyDeleteAnd there is the difference between a marketing PhD and a Econ PhD ... ;-)
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