Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:56:04 -0700 (PDT)
Mexican freedom

I have a kick ass house ... I rented a place with the guy from chicago (Arnesto is his name). The house is about 2500 square feet, has a swimming pool, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a large kitchen (which I'll never use), a dining room with a huge table, a liviing room with a tv and a bar. It also has a large yard which is completley fenced in with a brick wall that is 12 feet high, and on top of the wall there is chain link fence with barbed wire on top which makes it actually about 20 feet tall. We also have a gardener who comes once a week to take care of the pool and the yard, and we are planning on having a maid come once per week. Cost is about $850 (US) for 5 weeks for myself.

This guy that I am living with is pretty cool. I asked him about his views on drugs, and he said that he never does them (althought I think he used to deal them at some point). When he speaks, he speaks with total black-chicago slang (Ebonics). When we got to the house the first time, he said "man we be livin like pimps" ... when he speaks, the mexicans that normally understand english cannot understand anything that he says ... for example, when he says to a mexican something like "I be lookin fo some hoes 'night" (translation: I am looking for some girls tonight), they have no clue what he is talking about.

Last night was an interesting night ... I ran into the Mexican guys that I was hanging out with on Monday night. I was walking on the street in the center (el centro) with Arnesto after we had just left one bar, and the Mexican guys (both of them named Omar) pulled up in their Land Rover (which for those of you who don't know is worth about $80K). As soon as I got in the driver offered me a beer, which I acepted ... and which he had obviously had a few of. We then decided that we were going to crash a party across town, so we stopped to get some beer first. The way this guy pulled in front of the store was pretty interesting, he basically turned the corner and just drove on the wrong side of the street and parked (facing the wrong way) in front of two cop cars. He then got out of the car with a beer in his hand ... I thought it was pretty interesting that the cops didn't do anyting, and he explained to me that if you are in Mexico with an $80K automobile, th! e police assume that you are affiliated with some government official, and they will not bother you for anything.We went to the party, which was in a really nice place, but it was mostly foreigners, and wasn't that exciting so we left after abot an hour. The rest of the night consisted of us going from club to club, and me handing the driver beers from the back seat ... wednesday nights are a slow night in Cuernavaca. At one other point in the night, we passed a cop by crossing over the solid yellow line, and speeding past him ... no problem. At another point when we were switching from one bar to another, we had about 12 people in the Land rover, all of us drinking ... again, no problem ...

Needless to say, I am pretty tired today ... I think I am supposed to go out again tonight though, and tomorrow I am going to Acalpulco for the weekend ... I think I am going to be exhausted pretty soon again.