Sunday, November 29, 2009
People try to tell me that Mexico is scarey, but I know that America is
scarier and more crime ridden and violent. I shall live in a town of 70,000 people, colonial town, which rolls up the sidewalks behind you at 10 p.m. Seriously. If I have a good garage to park my car inside of each night, then I should be okay. The excitement will be remembering how to change out gas tanks for the water heater and stove, how to clean out the water tank on the roof and can't remember what else. I contacted a Century 21 agent already with tentative questions about my move......to...
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Today we made penguins, ants on a log and smiling mouths in art class.
Penguins made of black olives. I cut coins of raw carrots and then removed one slice, like from a pizza. I gave the children a toothpick and they stuck it straight up into the carrot, which formed the feet. I gave them a huge black olive which we sliced open on one side and then stuffed full of cream cheese. We slid that down onto the toothpick and it formed his black and white tummy. They we slid a smaller black olive down the toothpick, stuck the small slice of carrot removed from the feet...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Teaching children the art of cooking on Monday...
Art comes in all forms and I have decided to cook this Monday, just for easy times. Well, not really cook, but make hamburgers, or rather, what look like hamburgers and are not. They should like the artistic side of this and the end result as they shall eat their creations. You take Nilla wafers, coconut, a chocolate wafer (thin mint) and some white icing > colored into red and yellow, while coloring the coconut green. Layering the Nilla wafers as buns, you spread the mustard on one and the...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Tucson's All Souls Procession now becoming an international attraction.
I painted my niece's face in the sugar skull pattern and she was stopped all night for photos, which was great. People said nice things. Some people wanted my card for faces next year. Great. I quickly painted my own face, too late in the day, finished painting it four minutes before arrivbing at the Procession start on 4th Avenue and University Blvd, our hippie, street kid, college kid area. Parked far away. I had too much with me, candy to pass out to children and those glow in the dark...
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Today I vaccuumed out the car after removing all commerce from it.
I will need to take a family of 9 to the mosque tomorrow morning and then take many teachers to the All Soul's Procession in the afternoon. I made 36 bags of candy to give out to the refugee kids as I had not taken them to trick or treat and was feeling guilty. Candy was down to $.50 and $.25 a bag by today.... They chastised me as I handed out candy. Sigh.............but, I was able to hold my friend Saadiya's new baby, Salman, for a minute. Showed his grandmother how to do the Mexican tight in...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Streets, doors and windows in Guadalajara and surrounding areas.
I always like to take these photos as I end up painting them onto canvas at some point.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Short slideshow of Guadalajara and Tonala
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
My third slideshow of Guadalajara
Another collection of photos from Guadalajara and roundabout.....Third in the collection.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
The second day we went to Tlaquepaque and I took pictures.
Tlaquepaque (tla-kay-PAH-kay) is where the tourists go to wander and eat and buy things. Famous artists have their outlets there, Bustamante and Padilla, for example. The Clay Museum in there, it is all artesanias really. Marimba bands play, an old woman and her son or nephew who are both blind play and sing, for decades now, and little birdies tell your fortune and it is always dire, for some reason!!! Crowds await the moment that they can betray you, all is dark and you are on the edge of...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
My photo slideshow of Guadalajara.
HERE is the slideshow that I made of Guadalajara. I have four or so more, for those interested and they can be found under my name on youtube "abuelitaromo". These first four are just of some things spotted around town and some colors that caught my eye. Remember, I am into patterns lately, dunno why.
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