Still no internet at home

The car is up and running again! The noise it was making was terrible and we believed the back needed an entire new brake job. Turns out our emergency brake system will no longer be working and I don't think it had worked in a long time. The emergency brake system runs behind the rotors in the back (I have now lost the interest of all female readers) and when the mechanic removed the rotors, we watched the emergency brake parts fall out in small shattered pieces.

We still have no internet and I'm sitting in our slightly furnished house watching the girls get dirty in the front patio. Life is so different and no matter how much I knew about Mexico before I came, I'm still shocked by it all. It's almost as if I have even more culture shock, because I was so unprepared to experience any. Does that make any sense? There is really nothing here that is easy to do. The locals don't seem to mind the hassle that is attached to everything, but it's so opposite to our American culture. Take for example paying a bill, such as your water bill. First, the way you find it is truly odd, the delivery man chucks it over your gate into your patio much like a paper boy would do in the states. It's not in an envelope nor does it come with instructions, it just a bill waiting for you on your dirty patio floor. To pay it you have to go down to the building and stand in line and wait your turn to hand over your money. I used bill pay online in MN and never put a bill in the mail box. Paying my bills in the states was a click of my mouse. Like I said, nothing is easy around here.

Andy started school this week. He is enjoying it and I'm learning a lot by helping him with his homework. In a few weeks Andy will have a long weekend and we hope to make it down to Autlan. I have yet to see Autlan and I hear it is very different from this busy Guadalajara.