Although being in Mexico is very similar in many ways to being in the US, there are oh so many things that are differente and we have oh so much to learn. Today was a good example. We started off the day by getting zane to school a few minutes late. (they start 15 min. earlier on Mondays to pay tribute to the flag…just found that out today). Anyway, when Jason went to drop Zane off the gate at the school was locked and the principal said, “Sorry Zane, your late we can’t open the door. Go home.†Needless to say Jason was just a little shocked at this reply. Eventually she let Zane in but Jason and Zane were scolded for not following the rules. Rules, which were of course given to us in Spanish, adding yet another thing on the list of things to do…find someone to translate the rules so we don’t break any more.Later in the day we came home to a card on our door from Cablemas, the cable company which will be providing us internet. We are currently borrowing “latinos†internet. Although using “latinos†internet cost us no money it’s not so convenient as we have to walk around the apt. with our laptops held high in the air until we get good signal, sometimes sitting on the ground in the middle of the bathroom to keep the signal. Making phone calls on Skype has been really fun. We shout, curse and repeat things until we get our message across. But back to Cablemas….so we called the number on the card and we were able to get the nice cable lady to come back to the house. There was some conversation and it seemed like Jason was communicating with here, but for some reason nothing was happening. In fact, she kept acting like she was going to leave. She didn’t seem to want to install the cable service and we were all just talking in circles. Now we have been waiting to get this hooked up for about a week, and we were NOT going to let this women leave.
Anyway, this went on for about 20 min or so …she called her office…they talked to us….what we heard was …blah blah blah make the contracto….blah blah blah make the contracto blah blah blah make the contracto when I decided I would just sprint down to the property managers office and get our contract so she could proceed with the installation. Now let me just say…sprinting anywhere, any time of day is just a bad idea down here, but sprinting at 2:00 in the afternoon heat and humidity is plain dumb. Boy did I get some strange looks from the locals. Anyway, I arrived back at the house hot, sweaty and out of breath but with contract in hand Meanwhile, Jason had her cornered on the porch. I proudly offered my contract to her expecting all our issues would be solved, but STILL she wanted to leave. DAMN her!! Finally we got her to call Raquel our property manager on her cell phone. She has some words with Raquel, then handed her cell phone to us. Raquel then informed us that she was a sales women for the cable company, not an installer. This poor girl was just here to sell us cable, which we already had contract for!! Aahhhhh, she was there to “make the contracto!â€
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