No work today

Don't expect good services or much work done this afternoon.   Every Mexican I know, at least males, will be glued to the nearest television.  Wonder how many kids will skip school or will they have a TV in the classrooms.   Maybe doesn't mean a lot to you if you're not a soccer fan but high energy games like this are always good.   I know where I'll be.

MEXICO CITY - The time has come, the moment of truth is here. Only two games, 180 minutes to find out if Mexico will participate in next summer’s FIFA World Cup. El Tri begins their last chance playoff against New Zealand.

The first leg match between Mexico and New Zealand is scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday November 13 at 2:30PM local time (12:30PM pacific time) from the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. With the return leg scheduled for one week later in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mexico find themselves in this position after having failed to finish in the top three of the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying Hexagonal. United States, Costa Rica, and Honduras all finished better than El Tri and have their World Cup ticket in hand. As fourth place finishers Mexico are allowed to advance to a last chance playoff series to for one of the few remaining tickets to Brazil 2014.

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GEM - Gringo en Mexico

I've seen this character and his program before but think the series only lasted a few years.  Just ran across a rerun on an all Spanish SKY channel.   The program is 3 ways entertaining;  he is a cartoon character, his pronunciation is absolutely terrible .... and he does interesting stuff in interesting places.   The only  gringos speaking Spanish harder to understand than this guy are French and Germans.  At times it sounds like he is reading from a prompter.   I think he really has the vocabulary but hope most other gringos here have a better ear for the language and less like a computer program.


A visit to Real de Catorce

There are a number of these on YouTube if you want to look around