Success!

The haircut experience was a rousing success! Martha, a very nice woman with a salon a block away, was very patient with me. I confess, I not only memorized, but wrote down Cheryl's sentence. "¿ Cortar por favor mi pelo dos centímetro de más corto?" (I changed it to dos centimetros). I also mentioned that I spoke only a very little Spanish. She said sure, sat me down and asked me a question. I said, duh in sign language, although I could have said, no comprende. She brought out clippers and scissors. I motioned to the scissors, then I said, "¿Come se dice?". She said what they were, which I really didn't get (tijeras, as it turns out). She said, "in English?". I said scissors, which she really didn't get.

During the course of the cut, I managed to convey (using Spanish words in all the wrong order I'm sure), that in one year I would speak Spanish (A brave and perhaps foolish statement), and that because my hair wasn't pretty, I kept it short. She appeared to understand both. Anyway, here's the result, for 9 bucks including tip. I'll be going back to Martha.


Tomorrow we attempt to pay our electric and water bills, as well as our telmex bill. Exciting. Apparently you need to keep strict track of what day you're supposed to pay, because if you don't make it they just cut you off. And you have to go and stand in line. Memories of my childhood! (When you had to stand in line for everything, not that my parents made me go down and pay the power bill).

Tonight we finally have Shrimp Santorini- I'll take a picture. When the stove went out the other night, we had a backup dinner of shrimp pan-fried outside in butter and garlic and onions, and a Greek salad. It was a more than acceptable substitute. I'll try to get a shot of tonight's supper, and maybe a couple of house shots, and add them to this posting later.

Later- more pictures as promised!

Our hallway with a painting we inherited:




The shrimp on the stove:



shrimp just before being devoured:



containers in our kitchen-how Mexican are we? Of course, now the pinto beans are just for show, and we'll buy canned beans from now on. Shrimp, by the way, were $9.99/Kg.