Ok, so by now you must be wondering – does she ever have a bad day. Or will she ever write an entry that doesn’t say, “omg, I LOVE this place..” haha. Well, ladies and gentleman, today is your lucky day. Today, as I was telling some folks already, is just a day where all the quips about the Mexican culture, all the subtle (and not so subtle) nuances of everyday life, and the utter lack of efficiency has finally caught up to me! Today was a bad day. For some reason, I guess the “honeymoon phase” is over, and reality set in.
The bloody Internet at our apartment does not work 95% of the time. And the 5% it does work, it crawls at a snail’s pace. I literally have a book next to my computer, and read a couple pages in between web pages loading. And today, after a long day of class, I planned to call my family for the first time since I got here. So, I walked to the cell phone store to buy a calling card, and low and behold, they are closed for 2hrs for siesta! Finally, after searching around for a few blocks for another vendor of telephone cards, I stopped at 7/11 and got a phone card. Eager to call my family, I rushed over to the nearest pay phone and followed the dialing instructions. Ok – now here’s where it gets interesting. I have used phone cards literally all over the world – and even in languages that I don’t speak! From German to French to even Italian! It’s not that difficult. For some reason, here in Mexico – it is. The phone card didn’t work – at all. Even our landlady at the apartments we are renting had no idea what the problem was. Several pay phones, and a couple calling cards later, I still couldn’t get it to work!
And then today, after working until 3:30am on a finance project (which our team royally messed up by the way), we have another group project which will probably take the same amount of time – at least this one’s in marketing, and will be much more fun to work on. However, somewhere around 2am, I don’t think it’ll matter what we’re working on!
Hah – this is funny as well. On Friday, we are going to a “company visit” in Mexico, with bizarre clothing restrictions like, ONLY jeans, ONLY cotton shirts, FLAT leather, closed-toed shoes, hair pulled back in a pony-tail! Well, that would have been nice to know ahead of time… because, none of us girls have any “flat” shoes that are leather. Only tennis.. so I guess tomorrow, it’s off to the mall. And, what if we wear a shirt that’s only 85% cotton – and what if it’s the wrong color?! Quite frankly, I’m not too excited to head into this company and see what they are making?!!! Haha.
Tomorrow I have another phone interview – and three next week. Can’t wait for those. If it’s anything like yesterday’s call where my interviewer couldn’t get thru, and when he finally did was directed to someone who had no idea what to do, and couldn’t speak English! Smooth. We finally had to do the call on my cell phone. Haha, luckily he was very cool about it! Nightmare!
Ok, that’s it for the complaining. I feel better already. Just something about venting that makes you feel better. I might even try to venture out to another pay phone, and try my luck with the calling cards again! Or maybe I’ll start small like tuning in to a TV station that maybe, just maybe might have sound.
Tequila anyone?!!!
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