Friday, April 11, 2008

Wednesday the 24th - Musings



One of the things we saw a lot in Mexican universities were people making out in public, everywhere: in the university grounds, in the park, restaurants, buses, metro.
We question this attitude and we came up with a couple of answers or maybes …

1- Many young people live with their parents for a lot longer than they do in Anglo-Saxon countries. They feel uncomfortable doing anything in their parents’ house, so they go to the park or at school whenever they get some time.
2 - Latin people are a lot more passionate, therefore a lot hornier than others.
3 - Personal insecurities, therefore they have to show in front of others that they can also get the girl or the boy.
4 – Religion with all its oppression has developed a rebellion with in the youth, so just go ahead and share the love in public.
5 – Maybe we should see more public loving in Canada, and that’s the way it should be. Then again it’s all a matter of perspective.

After our rejection at CECC university we decided to go and do some hostel promotion. There are a great number of backpackers that come into the largest city in the world but there aren’t so many hostels as you would expect.


Rog and Steve on the metro, heading towards the hostels.

We went to about five right in the middle of town. Our favorite is “The Amigo Hostel”; friendly, not expensive, good beds, very international and with a party going on almost every day of the week. Most of the hostels offer a WWE Mexican wrestling tour, we recommend to go by yourself or with your friends, the tours are overpriced. They just want more money from you, and its faster in the metro system than in the tour vans. Traffic, remember?

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