Hasta La Vista.

Por fin, puedo regresar a San Francisco. Me siento muy cansado, pero excitado. Ha pasado un año duro de vivir. Más o Menos. De todos modos, no tengo arrependimiento. He aprendido mucho de la vida en México y tengo amigos aquí en México. Definitivamente voy a extrañar todo.

一切將盡...

最後一天, 終於把該拿的拿到了..

早上去Owens Corning, 終於從Raúl Frías手上拿到了.有一點擔心又會延誤.昨天真的被他們嚇到了.每個人都遷拖,說不知情, 害我一直跟蹤所有相關人員才搞定今天會開支票. Jorge Uribe 這小孩天性真是儉樸.善良. Patricia Ortega跟Silvia Vargas的幫忙則是純粹商業的角度. 他們自己該繳的稅外加手續費都扣去了. 可憐的我就這樣被剝削了很多... 多待了兩個月半,沒工作,就為了領五個月的薪水...又被扣那麼多...Evelyn還欠我1500 pesos,我看她是有意要忘掉了,她說我寄放40,500 pesos在她/爸那兒 (雖然我記得是41,000), 後來還我33,000 +2,000, 之後又還我4,000, 所以還欠我1,500. 但最後又說他要找機會還我1,000, 所以就變成1000了. (Patricia說她覺得Evelyn很不真, 天曉得)

Georgina還欠我1200 pesos. Federico 會幫我繼續催, 我已授權給他, 1200也是他的了.

現在開始捨不得,可是有不能再待. 所有都打點好了. 咱們回加州.

Puebla - Cholula

fui a puebla y cholula hoy. me siento muy mal ahora. me quedo en un hostel.

requisition pending on approval since 2/21

Went to Owens Corning only to find that the requisitions are not released/approved by Victor Ortiz since 2/20. I guess that's why everything is so slow in Mexico. can't complain too much, can I?

Anyway, today is Wednesday, so I went to watch my 25-peso movie. Norbit. Pretty boring. I was pretty tired after a long stressful day. running around in Owens Corning, as if I were still working in the company. No one stopped me or said anything. I bribed the security people with the tamarindo candies that I brought from Tapachula. They are pretty nice to me, even though I don't work there anymore. Run into that UPS guy and he remembered me, too.

由瓜地馬拉回墨西哥 De Guatemala a Tapachula

El Carmen/Talisman的移民局沒問很多, 但海關倒是又查護照, 又把整個行李全部翻了,所有盒子,袋子全部打開, 順便就問了很多問題: 從台灣來的? 是不是中國人? 去過那裡? 要去那裡? 待多久時間? 怎麼去?..等等. (關他什麼屁事, 移民局都沒問那麼多...) 不想得罪他, 只能忍氣 ..

Tapachula fue un pueblo aburrido. No se que hacer por alla. Hizo mucho calor también. Comí en un restaurante chino. No fue impresionante. Pero huve que comer algo. El taxista me cobró 100 pesos, pero le di 115 pesos. Estaba muy contento. Luego, la migracion fue muy agradable, pero la aduana fue bastanatemente molestante. Me checó todas mis cosas y eso no me molestó. Nunca más volveré a Tapachula. Jamás.

From Guatemala from Tapachula

Took my ride with Trans Galgos Inter from Guatemala, Guatemala to Tapachula, Chiapas. Chiapas used to be part of Guatemala, but Mexico took it over. Along with Oaxaca.

Casa de Dios y Cash Luna

Went to Casa de Dios, a church hosted by the celebrity Pastor, called Cash Luna. What kind of name is Cash, anyway. He sure seems to have lots of it for sure....

Pacaya

3月3號也爬了Pacaya. 我的經驗是:

14:30的團. 一輛車坐滿24個人. 到達山頂時是傍晚. 岩漿還繼續流. 後來還看到月蝕. (非常值得!!!) 一定要穿好鞋, 岩石很硬, 很尖, 不小心會刮傷. 一定要穿防風的衣服. 一定要帶手電筒, 夜路刺激, 但不好走, 我沒帶手電筒, 一路借別人的光. 馬糞真的很多. 上山可以騎馬, 後悔沒騎. (不是爬不了, 可以輕鬆一下, 還不用吸別人走過後,帶起的沙塵) 回程到Antigua的路上, 大家都睡著了. 到達時已21:45.

所有的團都是從Antigua出發. 每天06:00 和14:30出發. 我從Guatemala搭車到Antigua. 14:00到達, 問了所有的旅行社, 報價都是$10.00美元,而且所有團都客滿. 後來想一想就直接懇求司機能不能多塞我一個. 結果還是叫我去跟裡面的小姐談. 還好小姐同情我, 後來我就變成第24位, 而隨團的那位工作人員就站在車門旁一路上山.. (歹勢)

我跟的是Posada el Refugio (4a. Calle Poniente # 23) 的團, $7.00.

Volcan de Pacaya

It's Saturday and I made a promise to go to the church with Arturo on Sunday, if I can make it to the volcano on Saturday.

I became desperate last night, as I figured that I would be kind of bored today, if I couldn't make it to the 13:00 tour. But that travel agency/service never picked up the phone. So, I tried this morning and still to no avail.

I decided to call the other agency and the lady quoted me $85.00 USD. I was thinking, what the heck. Talked with Christina, the owner of Xamanek, the god of travellers, and she told me that it is possible to arrange the shuttle bus to come back from Antigua to Guatemala City. So, I hopped on the bus to go to Trebol and luckily hopped on another bus to Antigua, without going further to Tikal Futura (Paulina Rubio is going to preform there... 15/03).

Antigua

I made my way to Antigua and finally got the chance to ride the famous, or is it infamous, chicken bus. I took the bus, following Arturo's directions, that was supposed to take me to the terminal de autobuses, but I ended up downtown Guatemala again. Found my way through a lady to Tikal Futura and from there I took the chicken bus to Antigua. the ride cost only 7 quetzales. Visited a few ruins from the earthquake. I don't like it there, as there were way too many tourists there. The ratio is very high and I don't like that.

Downtown Guatemala City

They dropped me off in the middle of nowehere at maybe 6:30am. I found my way into town and later found my way back to the hotel. It was right interesting. But I acted on my best caution and had a little fun over there in downtown Guatemala. visited several places such as the post office, the main one and Palacio Nacional, which was free. Although I did give the tour guide 5 quetzales. I don't know if it was sufficient. But what the heck. It is beter than nothing.

I got used to taking the bus for 1 quetzal and eventually took a lot of bus rides.

I also took the newly finished Trans Metro. It was kind of a mess at the south terminal of the line during the rush hour, in my case, it was about 7:00 am. The buses are not really new. I think they bought them from somewhere else and painted them green. I got stuck there, because i thought the one I took from Trebol would take me downtown, but I was wrong. it took me directly from the middle to the south end. So, I ended up taking another ride from the south end to the north end, downtown Guatemala.

Took my walk downtown and it wasn't really impressive at all. People kept warning me not to flaunt anything that's valuable.

Guatemala 28/02/2007

The time is 11.30am. Cyber Place, 4 Ave. 11-10 Zona 1, Guatemala. 502-2232-2660

I set my foot in Guatemala after being tricked by the Taxi Driver from Tapachula, Mèxico. The kind Mexican Immigration officer said my tourist card was still good for another 23 days. Hahaha. So, he stamped my passport and let me go. I walked across the bridge to the other side and walked to the Guatemalan Immigration to get ready to fill out another form (tourist card) only to find they only needed my passport and 15 quetzales. I said I didn´t have quetzales and I got by with paying in pesos. He said, ¨oh, Taiwàn¨. I didn´t say anything at all. Stamped my passport for a 90-day stay and off I walked toward the town center of Talismàn (ta-li-mán).

It was pretty messy and dirty right there. But much prosperous than the Mexican side. My stupidness cost me a lot, including lots of hassle from the local business people:cab driver, carriage driver, pimps, currency exchange solicitors and a 7-hour wait for the midnight bus. A local bump took me to a care-taker/security of the Galgos Bus who then showed me his knife/sword, saying that it is necessary that he carries it in case of robbery to protect the passengers from the robbers.

I was so frigging tired when the bus finally took off. Cost 60 quetzales. Can´t complain too much for that.