Dear Blog,
When I last wrote to you, I was in the middle of an Olympic-sized crisis. With August 8th fast-approaching, Juan and I decided that maybe we should look for a t.v. antenna. We found the mother-of-all-antennas at RadioShack, which does surpisingly better in Mexico than in the U.S., and hooked it up to our t.v. After about thirty minutes of walking around the apartment looking for the right spot, we found it--just to the right of the t.v. on a speaker on top of the cd player facing southeast. We get 5 channels in HD! Finally, I have some sort of connection to the outside world. I have already gotten hooked on four telenovelas. There is one soap opera here called "Pobre Millonaria" (a.k.a. "Poor Milloinaire"), which is completely ridiculous. The show ended with the gardener screaming, "The dead have risen!" As you can tell, we are talking quality television here. I just can't wait to watch gymnastics! If there is a Russian named Svetlana, then all will be right with the world.
Juan has to be in Oaxaca Tuesday to Friday, so I decided to join him. We drove down this afternoon, but we were in a bit of a pickle because our car is not supposed to circulate on Tuesdays in Mexico City. Every car in the city has one day each week that it cannot be driven, and this is all according to the last number of the license plate. This makes about as much sense to me as anything when it comes to driving in Mexico City. We tried to get out of the city without getting stopped, but right as we reached the city's outskirts, we got pulled over--twice! Basically, the cops wanted bribes. The second policeman was nice enough to get in the back seat of our car so no one else would pull us over, and we dropped him off at the metro. Only in Mexico...
On our drive down, we stopped in Tehuacan, a small city in between Mexico City and Oaxaca, because we needed to look for an ATM. As always, we took a wrong turn somewhere in search of the center, but we ended up in front of a little pet store. We saw the cutest little beagle, and I think that we might just get her on the way back. We talked about it on the way down to Oaxaca and, unless something changes between now and Friday, I think that we are going to get a little puppy and call her Montezuma. A Mexican name for a Mexican pooch.
Well, I think that I am going to watch some t.v. now. If I am lucky, I can get sucked into a new telenovela.
Much love,
Jenny en la ciudad
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2 comments:
oh my gosh...jenny i love everything about that post. i read the whole thing with my jaw dropped, from the giant antenna to the police officers to the potential new puppy!!! wow, so many changes in just a few days!
i can't believe the officer got into the back of your car and you dropped him at the metro. freakin' hilarious.
thanks for updating, and enjoy your time in oaxaca. i can't wait to see pictures of montezuma!
Our Jen en la ciudad gets rescued by the giant antenna--whoopee! And now, Montezuma--so perfect to keep our Jen company--this new development makes your mom get tears--knowing I have a new grandpup but I have to just look at pictures--Jessie would be so happy to know that you have a companion while Juan is at work--to love you daily!
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