Monday, July 24, 2006
La 2a Fase
After a late night of some mild desmadre I had to get going in the morning to make it to the bus station for my 12:15 departure to Guadalajara. Alvaro accompanied me in the Transregio local bus to the Central Station. Transregio Air Conditioner:
The local buses zig, zag and wind their way through Monterrey and by the time we arrived at the station it was 12:07. Sitting in the bus I had to pay the driver 250 more pesos ($25) becasue my international student ID wasn´t valid for the student price.
The time I have passed here has been ideal. Alvaro has done everything to accomadte me and his parents have made me fell welcome and comfortable. Even more so than before the friends of Alvaro have been very cool to me. We sat and talked about politics for hours. Back home I can´t get away with more than the slightest criticiism of the US before my opinion is discounted and ignored. I have been able to tell these guys everything that I think is screwed up about Mexico and they take it as a legitamate point of view even if the disagree. Monterrey is probably the city that most supports Felipe Calderon and the PAN party. Conservativism is basically an ideology that perserves society in its current state. Whoever thinks that Mexico should maintian itself as it is rather than make drastic progress is not very aware of the extent that poverty is ingrained in the country.
I am eager to be out of Monterrey and to see much more of Mexico than I have ever seen before. But again its scary because I don´t know what to expect on the way nor when I arrive. ¶ 11:41 AM
After a late night of some mild desmadre I had to get going in the morning to make it to the bus station for my 12:15 departure to Guadalajara. Alvaro accompanied me in the Transregio local bus to the Central Station. Transregio Air Conditioner:
The local buses zig, zag and wind their way through Monterrey and by the time we arrived at the station it was 12:07. Sitting in the bus I had to pay the driver 250 more pesos ($25) becasue my international student ID wasn´t valid for the student price.
The time I have passed here has been ideal. Alvaro has done everything to accomadte me and his parents have made me fell welcome and comfortable. Even more so than before the friends of Alvaro have been very cool to me. We sat and talked about politics for hours. Back home I can´t get away with more than the slightest criticiism of the US before my opinion is discounted and ignored. I have been able to tell these guys everything that I think is screwed up about Mexico and they take it as a legitamate point of view even if the disagree. Monterrey is probably the city that most supports Felipe Calderon and the PAN party. Conservativism is basically an ideology that perserves society in its current state. Whoever thinks that Mexico should maintian itself as it is rather than make drastic progress is not very aware of the extent that poverty is ingrained in the country.
I am eager to be out of Monterrey and to see much more of Mexico than I have ever seen before. But again its scary because I don´t know what to expect on the way nor when I arrive. ¶ 11:41 AM
