thank you. i was there in 89-90, not the early 80s like i see my post said.( typo, freudian slip, senior moment, you be the judge!). The building is a real style called Victorian Gingerbread, not some singular demented Hansel and Gretel raving of lunatic archetect or visionary madman, but a real archetectural style. It was built by Canadians around the turn of the century.
You are there in Gto., now? i envy you. It would be very hot and dry there now, but come late august, september its going to rain every day for a month, and then things get pretty green.
Ah, i wish i had a chance to work on the Teatro Jaurez. Beautifull restoration job. I did work up on the Paseo de la Presa, most noteably a structure know as the 'Casa de Las Bruhas', just below the governors palace on the way to the dam. This was in the early eighties. And i never got to see 'las mommias', they were on tour in japan:>
I was working on an international team of artisans headed by a Mexican archetect. I see no hypocrasy there. It was a beautiful, mind-opening experience.
My original rudeness stemmed from ohReally calling Gto. "third world". and his suggesting that an extended holliday in a third world country might actually benifit someone suffering from nothing more than a lack of discipline.
I am pretty sure that the residents of Guanajato would take umbrage to being called "third world".
All in all, though, you are right, it doesn't excuse my presentation.
Im sorry you think my comparison reveals i know nothing. Guanajato has 2 orchestras, a university, and is the seat of the state government, with one of the highest ratios of middle class people per capita in the whole of Guanajuato.
I'm truly sorry if i insulted you, but because i disagree with you i see no reason for you to be rude. Perhaps we could agree on our love of Mexico and its good people and let it go at that?
I lived in Guanajuato. I liked it there, but it was a middle-class college town, like Amherst or Berkley. And i had a job, restoring landmark buildings.
And i'm not the one whining about my smartness being a curse.
This is what we need, another smarter than thou, better than thou, know-it-all american living abroad, without a clue what life is about. no wonder the rest of the world hates us.
My advice to Michael is to get a job, some back-busting, physicaly hard labor for very little pay, and stick with it for at least a year. What to do with his life will come to him pretty quickly.
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thank you. i was there in 89-90, not the early 80s like i see my post said.( typo, freudian slip, senior moment, you be the judge!). The building is a real style called Victorian Gingerbread, not some singular demented Hansel and Gretel raving of lunatic archetect or visionary madman, but a real archetectural style. It was built by Canadians around the turn of the century.
You are there in Gto., now? i envy you. It would be very hot and dry there now, but come late august, september its going to rain every day for a month, and then things get pretty green.
Hike the Bufa!
Ah, i wish i had a chance to work on the Teatro Jaurez. Beautifull restoration job. I did work up on the Paseo de la Presa, most noteably a structure know as the 'Casa de Las Bruhas', just below the governors palace on the way to the dam. This was in the early eighties. And i never got to see 'las mommias', they were on tour in japan :>
Yeah, sorry i was testy this morning.
I was working on an international team of artisans headed by a Mexican archetect. I see no hypocrasy there. It was a beautiful, mind-opening experience.
My original rudeness stemmed from ohReally calling Gto. "third world". and his suggesting that an extended holliday in a third world country might actually benifit someone suffering from nothing more than a lack of discipline.
I am pretty sure that the residents of Guanajato would take umbrage to being called "third world".
All in all, though, you are right, it doesn't excuse my presentation.
Im sorry you think my comparison reveals i know nothing. Guanajato has 2 orchestras, a university, and is the seat of the state government, with one of the highest ratios of middle class people per capita in the whole of Guanajuato.
I'm truly sorry if i insulted you, but because i disagree with you i see no reason for you to be rude. Perhaps we could agree on our love of Mexico and its good people and let it go at that?
I lived in Guanajuato. I liked it there, but it was a middle-class college town, like Amherst or Berkley. And i had a job, restoring landmark buildings.
And i'm not the one whining about my smartness being a curse.
lived and worked in Mexico for two and a half years.
:>
worked as a carpenter for 15 years.
been in over a dozen foreign countries.
so i guess i have a little experience in being a smarter than thou
This is what we need, another smarter than thou, better than thou, know-it-all american living abroad, without a clue what life is about. no wonder the rest of the world hates us.
My advice to Michael is to get a job, some back-busting, physicaly hard labor for very little pay, and stick with it for at least a year. What to do with his life will come to him pretty quickly.