Dispatches from Queretaro
Jan. 22nd, 2008 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsIt is a lot warmer here. High today of 26 (celsius, that's about 84 American) as opposed to the -6 in Ottawa.
When I opened a couple of my different toiletries (like Shampoo and a bottle of ointment) they gushed then oozed out. When two of them did it, not just one, I went hm.... It seems that Queretaro is about 1800m (6000 feet) above sea level, which is a noticeable change from Ottawa which is a bit under 100m (300 feet). No wonder there was a pressure differential in those bottles.
Down here, Chili's is considered an American restaurant. In the US it is marketed as kind of a Mexican restaurant. And, all the menu items are named in English, though including Spanish words like chipotle or fajitas as appropriate, then described in Spanish in the small print. Still, it made ordering not too difficult. Yes, they took me out to a Chili's in a mall. (The people in Mexico City took me to far more interesting restaurants.)
My bed is far too hard. But, that happens in hotels anywhere.
My cell phone claims to find analog service for analog roaming, and successfully gets a time signal. This is more than I've ever gotten in Europe, but I still haven't tried to make a call. Probably more expensive than I want to contemplate.
My class had 13 people in it, 4 got pulled around noon yesterday to fix some emergency on another project. 4 more got added during morning break today, and one of them was a woman. (Bringing the total of women in this class to 1 out of 17.)
Cash is used far more everywhere than in Canada or the US, and receipts don't seem to be a common thing. I hope this doesn't cause me problems when doing expenses.
The English on my "forgot something" card in the bathroom is punctuated with an upside-down question mark at the start of the sentence (as well as the usual right-side-up one at the end). (Upside-down for an English definition of the normal position of the punctuation mark, that is. :)
When I opened a couple of my different toiletries (like Shampoo and a bottle of ointment) they gushed then oozed out. When two of them did it, not just one, I went hm.... It seems that Queretaro is about 1800m (6000 feet) above sea level, which is a noticeable change from Ottawa which is a bit under 100m (300 feet). No wonder there was a pressure differential in those bottles.
Down here, Chili's is considered an American restaurant. In the US it is marketed as kind of a Mexican restaurant. And, all the menu items are named in English, though including Spanish words like chipotle or fajitas as appropriate, then described in Spanish in the small print. Still, it made ordering not too difficult. Yes, they took me out to a Chili's in a mall. (The people in Mexico City took me to far more interesting restaurants.)
My bed is far too hard. But, that happens in hotels anywhere.
My cell phone claims to find analog service for analog roaming, and successfully gets a time signal. This is more than I've ever gotten in Europe, but I still haven't tried to make a call. Probably more expensive than I want to contemplate.
My class had 13 people in it, 4 got pulled around noon yesterday to fix some emergency on another project. 4 more got added during morning break today, and one of them was a woman. (Bringing the total of women in this class to 1 out of 17.)
Cash is used far more everywhere than in Canada or the US, and receipts don't seem to be a common thing. I hope this doesn't cause me problems when doing expenses.
The English on my "forgot something" card in the bathroom is punctuated with an upside-down question mark at the start of the sentence (as well as the usual right-side-up one at the end). (Upside-down for an English definition of the normal position of the punctuation mark, that is. :)
