Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
Latest update from Cuernavaca (you might find this mildly amusing)

It has been a while since I have sent out an update of my happenings, because I have had fewer cultural shock type experiences in Mexico than I did in Cuba. However, I did experience something yesterday that was on par with any of the things that I eperiences in Cuba:

As some of you may remember, my room-mate (Arnesto) had met a 15 year old girl who had been spending quite a lot of time at our house. When he went back to Chicago for the entire week last week, she took his dog to her house and took care of it for the week ... then on Sunday night (the day he was returning from Chicago) she came back to our house with the dog and went into his room to sleep while she was waiting for hime to arrive .... after that she hung out at our house monday doing cooking and cleaning for Arnesto. However but because of the fact that she was only 15 he had really stopped having any interest in her, and I think that she was getting a negative vibe from him ... then tuesday I came home from class, took everything out of my pockets (money etc ..) and put it in my room, and lied on the couch to have a nap ... My room mate arrived later yesterday evening, and we sat there and talked for a while, and I asked where his little buddy was ... he said he thought that she had gone out to buy some food. Then he went upstairs, and came back down and said "I don't think she is coming back man" ... and he said " all her shit is gone" ... then about 10 minutes later I went up to my room, and noticed that my money was gone (only about the equivalent of $15), and I said "fuck man, I think your bitch took my money" ... then he says "yeah, she took mine too, but I was too embarrased to say anything -- thats why I know she aint comin back" ... turns out she actually broke into a locked box that he had stored his money in, and got about $200 from him ... altough she could have taken a lot more (his portable DVD, one of his 12 watches etc ...). Next thing, he went in the back yard to make sure the dog was there ... luckily she didn't take it ... it appears that all she took was money. Anyway we had the lock changed on our house today ... I think this chick is pretty stupid, and she definately has balls, because she took our shit while I was asleep in the house.

Another interesting thing that I learned in my class is that my teacher (who is now 50) used to be Mr. Latin Lover ... he said that he used to have a box of photographs with all the women that he has been with, and his wife found it one day ... she drew moustaches on all the women, and cut his head out of any pictures that had him holding another woman in it ... apparently latin women are quite jealous. He was really pissed off ... he wanted to save the pictures to show to his sons so that they could see what a man he was, and so that the could follow in his footsteps.

On another note, he told me that normally mexican boys lose their virginity at about 15 years old ... I asked him how they do it if the Mexican girls are so conservative ... "well" he says "they go to a prostitute" ... I asked him with surprise "what? how do you know, and how do they find them" ... he said to me "their fathers bring them". So, this is another difference between Mexican and Canadian culture.

That is about all for now.
-Alexander