MexiCanadian

Now that I’ve been away from Canada for almost a month, a tiny bit of homesickness has been creeping in. I never thought it would be possible to be homesick for waist-deep snow, frozen boogers, and constant touque-hair…but here I am.  

Luckily, there are still many things here that remind me of home in Mexico, and what I learned this week is that there are exactly three things that are true everywhere.

1) Your cellphone provider, no matter who they are, will suck.

After the unfortunate loss of cellphone #1 (who passed on tragically at the tender age of six days old, R.I.P.), I bought a replacement cellular from Telcel 10 days ago. I was so stoked to have another phone that I neglected to check if it was working before leaving the store. I won’t bore you with the long-winded details, but I ended up visiting SIX different Telcel stores (including their special customer centre) and making three different calls to their service line before I got the phone working. I now officially hate four cellular providers across 2 coutries. Telcel now joins Telus, Bell, and Solo on my mobile shit list. Congratulations. 

2) People will complain about the government.

Found graffiti in central Puebla.  I wish I could explain a little bit more about why this spray paint artist was so cheesed off, but I don’t follow politics in Canada, and I’m certainly not going to follow them here either.

3) Justin Bieber will have preteen girls (and me) all googly eyed.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that somebody at this coffee shop wrote a special note on the front in PERMANENT INK asking preteen gals (and me) to kindly not remove the Beebs from the premises. Clearly this has been an issue before.

My mom has been sending me photos to let me know what I’m missing at home.

Yup, that’s my car under a foot and a half of snow. And this was apparently taken before it got “bad.”

Maybe I’m not too homesick yet.