Last week, Haruko and I became honorary Oaxacans…by eating crickets, a favored treat here.
I have eaten many strange things in my lifetime and now I can add insects to the list.
Lorena made us pasta with crickets. Also known as Espaguetti con chapulines. Whenever I walk though the food market women tempt me with their baskets of chapulines, [...]
It has been a while since my last update. I had some trouble with my hotmail being taken over by a scam artist. They sent out emails asking for money, saying I was stranded in London without passport or money and it has taken me about a week to regain access to my hotmail account [...]
On Feb 17, Adan and I met with several community members, the teachers and the School Director, to propose our idea of teaching in the primary school. We outlined a program to teach painting and colour theory in conjunction with learning about the ecology of northern Canada as compared to their local village in Oaxaca. Each child would make a journal to be used [...]
Thursday evening, 10 pm. Silence…at last.
It is a beautiful night, the sky is dark and star studded, crickets chirping and in the distance, dogs bark, taxis honk for business. Sounds waft up the hill as easily as the pollution seems to drift down. The more time I spend here the more I tune into the sounds [...]