Cultural exchange program
Canadian reporter Quade Hermann writes in Half the Unknown World of her attempts to adjust to life in Mexico City, the nuances of the Spanish language (There are three ways common ways to apologize: disculpa, for when you interrupt someone else’s conversation; perdoname, for when you elbow them in the kidneys by mistake; and lo siento, for when you accidentally sleep with their husband.) and the shocking discovery that in Guadajara Chivas are not goats.
Safely back in civilization, or at least the more sophisticated clubs and restaurants of Xalapa, Roman Castañeda Cotera continues the on-going Amazing adventures of a Mexican once lost in the UK . He’s also written recently on winter in Georgia (the one in the United States), rednecks, making (and drinking mass quanities of) mojitos and the Mayans. And the Brits.
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