No Eres Feo, Tienes Personalidad

For those of you who aren't Spanish-inclined, this post's title means "You're not ugly, you have personality." I saw it on a Coca Cola billboard while on the way into Cancun after our trip to Christian's hometown several weeks ago. Ever since, I've been looking for all the other Coca Cola ads that have different sayings on them. The best one to date has to be, "Smile, You're In Cancun!" While not funny in and of itself, it's funny when you think that we saw it on the back of the bus in front of us while riding on a croweded, hot, sweaty bus in the less-than-touristy side of Cancun. Now that's a cultural experience for you!

After about a month here, the melancholy and negativity that sank its claws into me in Japan have finally started to loosen their grip. It was difficult at first, as I told Christian, I had become so used to living by myself, that even though I was happy to be with her again, it required a bit of adjustment from the months of learning to deal with loneliness by getting used to living alone. Re-adjusting proved to be a bit of a chore, but luckily I have a patient fiance.

Over the past few weeks, I've been noticing that I'm missing just about every useful cord or cable that I need for all my electroic needs on a daily basis. When we went to Dziuche(Chris's home town), I let the kids play my video games until the batteries on both my portable systems were completely drained. I went up to the roof the other day and took some pictures of the skyline from the roof of the house we're staying in, only to come down and realize that I don't have my USB cord for my camera either. I managed to get a decent shot with my cell phone I brought back from Japan, which captures the neighborhood we're living in pretty well I think:



And while I'm at it, here's a picture of Christian with her little sister, little brother, and aunt:



I'm going to be in the states again next week, but I'll talk about that more in the next post, which will hopefully happen tomorrow!