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This is my home and  I love it .

thanks for calling me Nando, this is how all my familly call me.

a) A chinampa is the engineering sistem developed by  the aztecs to creat a piece of floating land.

b) the colorfull boats are "trajineras" . they were used to work(transportation media) but now they are used only as an attraction to turist.

c) All the people who live in Mexico City live on soil.(excetp some people in Xichimilco). The lake is under us.                                                       70.% of the water we used is taken fom the subsoil.

Thanx 411,

What was the title of the book?    Maybe I should read it first.

The more I've talked with FER, the more I realize how UNequipped I am to write about this topic....I haven't a clue of what it is like to live in a semi-lawless nation (what good are laws if they cannot be enforced?)....which is so, ummmm, insensitive to it's female population....what would it be like to be a woman in a society that sees you as a sub-servile slave, there only  to make babies, clean, cook, and shut-up or get slapped/beaten senseless?

Uh-huh I know this was once the status of women the world round....but, I've never had to live like that...so I really cannot relate.   With my attitudes, and my big mouth, I'd be dead already if I lived in Mexico!

My mother once told me a story about a woman whose husband would get drunk, come home and beat her.   She was in and out of the hospital from his beatings. Finally, after years of taking this, the woman took advantage of her position.   When her husband came home drunk one night, and he passed out on the bed, she tied him up and took a baseball bat to him.   Of course, he was put in the hospital, and survived.    The weird part of the story is that he returned home after this incident, and he never hit her again.  (What's weird to me is that she took him back, or that he actually wanted to go back...LOVE ~ go figure!)

Amazing.

I don't think I can really "get it" that she would let him back in the door, or that he would want to come back home, or that he would actually change and be a better man afterwards.... I mean, really?

Hi FER!   (Buenos Dias, Senor!)

Okay.   I have this great grin (ear-to-ear smile) on my face because my Mom watches these soap operas in Spanish...and she is totally hooked!   She and her girlfriends are "glued" to the tv, all eyes, and "ohs, ahs, arrghs", and they compare notes ~ seriously discuss what happened to the characters....I think they LOVE all the emotional 'richness'!

Of course, I cannot understand them...but, FER (don't get your feelings hurt) they make me laugh!   Now, this may be the tell-tale sign that, even though my Mom is Spanish, I was not raised in the culture and really cannot relate to a lot of things about it : but, these "series" make me laugh because they are so melodramatic....emotionally waaay over the top... and I'm not used to seeing people over-acting and over re-acting to such an extreme.    It is difficult for me to take them seriously.

Please do not feel offended, because I find this true with soaps in English, too.   When I was a little girl my Grandma used to watch "General Hospital" and "All My Children"...of course I had to watch them with her...and I was very young, so I didn't know how surreal they were...but, even then, I could not see them being "real life".   People do not actually behave in this manner....at least not in my experience.  And, say they did act like that....these would not be people I would hang-out with...just too much drama....at least for me.

I do see your point about women being driven to the edge then going wild and taking revenge... there was this documentary I watched about women in prison, it was called "Jail Birds".   When I heard their stories, I thought it was not "just" nor "fair" how the system failed to protect them, then put them in prison for protecting themselves.   So, I do see your point.

Is your day beautiful?   It's gorgeous here!

~debo

Yeah,

Lorena Bobbit ~ one of our more beloved sisters ~  grrrrrin....just joking....sorta....griiiiin....though it wasn't the right thing to do, it sure gave a lot of women a great big smile!   (and an odd sense of release)

I imagine her husband grasping his crotch and desperately searching the roadside for his manhood!

AAAAAAaahahahahaaaaaaaa.....ahem.

(excuse me gentlemen)

Thanx for the memories, John.

DEBO QUERIDA:It's raining cats n dogs!!!!. I'm having troubles with my internet connection.

HAPPY JULY 4th TO ALL MY FRIEND IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER!!!

DEAR TEACHER_411:  GRACIAS Y QUE VIVAN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMERICA!!!!!

FER....

and 411,

...is that Long Live the United States of America ?    ("viva" is LIFE, right?)

if so,   THANK YOU VERY MUCH....and   Viva Mejico!   and even Viva Zapata!

~deeebo

I'm curious...what day is Mexican Independence Day?

It's not Cinco de Mayo...because when I was there, no one seemed to recognize that date.

And, from whom did you wrestle your independence?

tell me all about it....I'm interested...

~deeebo

AMIGA DEBO: It's on September 16th. and  it's the biggest celebration in Mexico. Now, It's called "mexican night"

We got our independence from Spain, in 1810.

I don't why May 5th is more celebrated in USA than It's here.

On may 5th, we celebrate the victory against France, when they invaded Mexico in 1862.

Thank you for conjugating the verb for me. I did know that it does not exist in espanol. things are either masculine, feminine, but never it. Masculine is el, los

feminine is ella, las, la

I think that is what I learned.

It is good to feel free...to sense that protection exists...to be 'safe'.... as crazy as it is...I do so love my country!    Happy Fourth of July!