back to school!
(it actually began over a week ago, but who's counting?)
what i did during my summer holidays (tj came up w/ a great idea--kids should be assigned to write about what they didn't do for their summer vacations...that would be so much more interesting--i, however, will now be boring):
- went to the jose gonzalez/juana molina/psapp show at trinity-st. paul's (the acoustics were perfect!) the day after i arrived home
- helped throw a bachelorette shower & party for charmaine (many compromising pictures were taken of her w/ random dudes in the club--not that my brother got worked up about them anyway)
- bridesmaid duties at my brother's marathon of a wedding (had to give a dinner speech, too--worst thing ever--the day itself was alright though)
- attended various dinners and family gatherings (stocked up on my memory of chinese food for the next year)
- spent a fortune getting my ibook fixed (wesley & his dad saved me a ton though!), buying a new harddrive and battery for it as well as a new ipod--had to get a UPS (uninterruptible power supply); we think the flow of electricity is not of great quality down here, and that may be what was messing up all my apple products
- hung out w/ friends, had lots of dinners downtown (mostly sushi sans philly cream cheese!) and bubble teas
- took a roadtrip to chicago w/ some friends and witnessed the last day of lollapalooza in grant park (i love this city and broken social scene played their greatest set ever...also caught ben kweller, the shins, of montreal, andrew bird and wilco)
so now i'm back in the land of sun and psycho-rain, and it's been an easy transition so far; i missed the kids and i'm really liking the new kids, and maybe it's just b/c it's the start of the year, but the teaching part is seemingly settling in as well.
as for the hurricane, john didn't really hit vallarta after all. we had hurricane warnings on wednesday and eventually they cancelled school for thursday, so we were all psyched up for this thing to land (all the shops on the malecon had taped x's on their windows), but in the end, it didn't. dave and i slept over at jenny-the-librarian's house to keep her and her dog "wolfie" company in boca de tomatlan, which probably would've been hit quite hard if john had struck here, but all we experienced were a few dribbles of raindrops. i've seen tons of crazier thunderstorms than what we got on thursday.
yes, we must sound insane for being slightly disappointed that vallarta avoided a freakin' hurricane, but we'd gotten ourselves so worked up over it that it felt like we'd developed all that adrenaline for naught.
my students told me stories about the tailend of kenna hitting pv a few years ago, and how nobody really took the warning seriously b/c they didn't believe that a hurricane could ever strike here (the sierra madres and the shape of the bay protect this area pretty well). the whole malecon was destroyed and the shops' windows shattered and there was a ton of looting. i guess this time they decided to take precautions just in case.
i hope cabo san lucas is okay.
an exciting prospect that dave came up w/ today:
taking his AP art class on a trip to mexico city! the df is apparently the hip, new contemporary art capital of the world (according to three articles i've read so far), and then there's also the diego rivera-frida kahlo connection. i want to be the second chaperone!! we could go visit the blue house (frida kahlo museum) in coyoacan and the house kahlo and rivera shared in san angel (i just uploaded the pics i took to flickr -- i'm still uploading pics from my spring break trip!)...and the modern art museum in chapultepec park, and rivera's murals in the palacio de bellas artes...excited!!!
well, excited, if we get permission to go...and i doubt we'll get permission to go if these lopez obrador protests keep taking place all over the city...i really hope some kind of resolution is found soon. i was nervous about passing through the airport in the df heading back here, but everything turned out fine, so who knows?
another good destination for that AP class would be oaxaca. unfortunately, they have protests (that seem to be taking on a more violent nature) of their own going on. sigh.
mexico sure has a lot of stuff going on all over the place lately.
[addendum: the ny times article on mexico city's contemporary art scene]
(it actually began over a week ago, but who's counting?)
what i did during my summer holidays (tj came up w/ a great idea--kids should be assigned to write about what they didn't do for their summer vacations...that would be so much more interesting--i, however, will now be boring):
- went to the jose gonzalez/juana molina/psapp show at trinity-st. paul's (the acoustics were perfect!) the day after i arrived home
- helped throw a bachelorette shower & party for charmaine (many compromising pictures were taken of her w/ random dudes in the club--not that my brother got worked up about them anyway)
- bridesmaid duties at my brother's marathon of a wedding (had to give a dinner speech, too--worst thing ever--the day itself was alright though)
- attended various dinners and family gatherings (stocked up on my memory of chinese food for the next year)
- spent a fortune getting my ibook fixed (wesley & his dad saved me a ton though!), buying a new harddrive and battery for it as well as a new ipod--had to get a UPS (uninterruptible power supply); we think the flow of electricity is not of great quality down here, and that may be what was messing up all my apple products
- hung out w/ friends, had lots of dinners downtown (mostly sushi sans philly cream cheese!) and bubble teas
- took a roadtrip to chicago w/ some friends and witnessed the last day of lollapalooza in grant park (i love this city and broken social scene played their greatest set ever...also caught ben kweller, the shins, of montreal, andrew bird and wilco)
so now i'm back in the land of sun and psycho-rain, and it's been an easy transition so far; i missed the kids and i'm really liking the new kids, and maybe it's just b/c it's the start of the year, but the teaching part is seemingly settling in as well.
as for the hurricane, john didn't really hit vallarta after all. we had hurricane warnings on wednesday and eventually they cancelled school for thursday, so we were all psyched up for this thing to land (all the shops on the malecon had taped x's on their windows), but in the end, it didn't. dave and i slept over at jenny-the-librarian's house to keep her and her dog "wolfie" company in boca de tomatlan, which probably would've been hit quite hard if john had struck here, but all we experienced were a few dribbles of raindrops. i've seen tons of crazier thunderstorms than what we got on thursday.
yes, we must sound insane for being slightly disappointed that vallarta avoided a freakin' hurricane, but we'd gotten ourselves so worked up over it that it felt like we'd developed all that adrenaline for naught.
my students told me stories about the tailend of kenna hitting pv a few years ago, and how nobody really took the warning seriously b/c they didn't believe that a hurricane could ever strike here (the sierra madres and the shape of the bay protect this area pretty well). the whole malecon was destroyed and the shops' windows shattered and there was a ton of looting. i guess this time they decided to take precautions just in case.
i hope cabo san lucas is okay.
an exciting prospect that dave came up w/ today:
taking his AP art class on a trip to mexico city! the df is apparently the hip, new contemporary art capital of the world (according to three articles i've read so far), and then there's also the diego rivera-frida kahlo connection. i want to be the second chaperone!! we could go visit the blue house (frida kahlo museum) in coyoacan and the house kahlo and rivera shared in san angel (i just uploaded the pics i took to flickr -- i'm still uploading pics from my spring break trip!)...and the modern art museum in chapultepec park, and rivera's murals in the palacio de bellas artes...excited!!!
well, excited, if we get permission to go...and i doubt we'll get permission to go if these lopez obrador protests keep taking place all over the city...i really hope some kind of resolution is found soon. i was nervous about passing through the airport in the df heading back here, but everything turned out fine, so who knows?
another good destination for that AP class would be oaxaca. unfortunately, they have protests (that seem to be taking on a more violent nature) of their own going on. sigh.
mexico sure has a lot of stuff going on all over the place lately.
[addendum: the ny times article on mexico city's contemporary art scene]
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