Name that puppy!

June 13th, 2008

Oaxaca, Mexico

Picture:  puppy x at 1 week.  okay, so this is our new dog and we cannot seem to find the right name.  it was so easy with bailey.  oh well.  we hope our greater community can help us with this task.  email all suggestions.  a personalized, carefully selected prize goes to the winner.

Good:  The weather is perfecto!  Warm days, storms in the evening, cool nights.  I cannot ask for better.  But I won't count on it lasting.

Bad:  We won't be in California on June 17th.  It would have been fun to be at ground zero on the day marriage licenses became gender neutral.

Surprising:  This is a theory made out of whole cloth so take it for what it is worth.  One of my fellow Americans was complaining about being ripped off here.  She thinks they are charging us too much.  I suggested that people from the US expected prices to be less here so feel cheated when we pay US prices for things.  And people here are used to tourists pretty happily paying higher prices for things than Oaxacans.  The system worked so long as the prices in the two places were so discrepant.  But now that the Oaxacans pay nearly what we pay for food, clothing etc.  we (Americans) won't happily pay more that the Oaxacans pay.  The only exception seems to be rent.  I am happily paying $700 (usd) for renting a 3 bedroom apartment.  My teachers here think I am being over charged.  But for me,  $700 for rent for the month is very reasonable.  So I happily pay that amount even though I know a Oaxacanian would only pay $500(usd) or so.  But clothes.  OMG.  They want way more than I am willing to pay.    I imagine this is the global economy at work.  I just do not know how it plays out.