This is “our” niece. She apparently loves make-up. Yes, she’s just 2 years old, but already knows how to use deodorant, face-powder, lipstick and much more. Oh before I forget, I’ve thought her how to say: “lecker” ( German for tasty). So, now whenever she sees something that she wants to eat she says: “Mhhh, lecker”. But probably the most useful phrase we/I thought her was: “YAY”. Yes, she knows how to say that very important word to express joy.
“Ain’t I cute, and no I haven’t seen your lipstick…”

One of my favorit vegtables in the world: cucumbers! I like them chopped on Tostitos, in salad or just with a bit of salt, but those two, or should I say one really messed up what I knew about cucumbers… Yes you see correctly they are twins, crazy, but they were still tasty.

We went to Guaymas and filled out and delivered my migration forms. Guaymas is almost two hour away, by bus, from Ciudad Obregon and the closest migration office. There is also one all the way up in Hermosillo, but that is over 4 hours away.

Some weeks ago I’ve posted a ‘tiny’ list of things that the “Register of foreigners” wanted, but it kind of changed and got a bit out of hand, if you ask me.

I sadly, don’t have a complete list of all the documents in English, and I neither feel confident of translating them, but trust me when I tell you that there are many weird things on that list. Probably my favorite element on the list is a copy of the Directors identification-card or a copy of the electricity bill from ITESCA. Yes, you read right they wanted a copy of a bill from ITESCA. By my opinion that isn’t necessary, but Ok. Then I had to bring copies of my Passport, yes they wanted the entire passport copied - 32 pages, luckily they didn’t insist on having it copied 3 times. Never the less, they still wanted everything else copied and signed 3 times.

The most confusing part was, when they asked me to sign and fill out a FM1-visa form. Why in the world, would I fill out a form like this, when I don’t want an FM1-Visa? I asked that question a couple of times the friendly ladies at the office, but their answer remained the same:” sign here, here and here”. When I told them I would like to read what I sign, because I don’t want to buy a house and neither marry them. They just repeated what they said before, and went back behind their desks.
Anyway, the weather in Guaymas was very lovely: sunny, hot and hot. So it was a big pleasure to hike up the hill to the migration office. The street could have easily been in San Francisco. Yes it was very steep.

After the arguments in the migration office, we actually met the nicer part of the office, which took us on a personal tour around Guaymas and showed us a lovely restaurant, if I remember correctly its name was: los abuelos. But don’t quote me on that. In that restaurant I probably ate the tastiest fish I ever had in Mexico – Yummy.

Well once we were done eating, we already had to get back to Obregon.
Oh, before I forget my papers are being processed and in one month they should be done and I might have to pay a fine, because they haven’t received my application within one month of my arrival. I don’t want to say that it’s impossible to have all those papers ready in less than a month. But it’s certainly impossible, if you don’t know about the institution in advance.

So long… Thomas

What i needed to register. It was all together about 100 or more pages.

Once a year, every year, the Mexicans gather around their mayor’s offices to celebrate the defeat and retreat of the Spanish. This year I was lucky to be a part of the celebration, by witnessing, first hand, the shouts of the crowed: “viva”.

We actually have been staying in Ciudad Obregon, and watched the pretty amazing and dangerously looking fireworks, the speech of the major and the shouts of the crowed.

All in all was it a pretty intimidating show, when all of the sudden the fireworks started and there was light, bangs and more fire everywhere. We tried to capture everything in video and pictures, so you guys in Germany can better imagine how it felt.

Oh, after the show, when we went home, we actually saw a boy who got a piece of fireworks in his eye. If he’s doing O.k.? Who knows?

This is a short summary of what happened on that independence day: http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051313/mexicanindependenceday.htm.

For me it just means that I need to get back behind the test and practice some more Spanish

Till then Thomas

The promised Videos:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=7pwi4F8cjyo
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFLKuj4QHQ
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=rq02tukBiBE
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqrg1p-8Mk
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=-xrsMXe5Od0

Yay, to me and everyone else who has just finished their first exam. There where still plenty of language problems, but luckily most of the test was about “the table of truth”, haeee. I’m not really sure if you translate it like that, but doesn’t matter.

Well, off i go to the next class, this time spanish. That’s going to become a though one! How was the pluar form of crisis? It’s crisis, because it’s a two syllable noun that ends in a -s preceeded by an unstressed vowel.



My learning Sheet for the human/ male body.

Till then and wish me good luck.

P.S. To the network department in my school, if you block certain websites, you should also block http-proxy pages…

P.S. Fannie good luck with your tests, I know that you haven’t had a lot of time to practice, because of my annoying questions about the spanish grammar.

Yes, this time it’s finally my birthday. Even Sonora didn’t seem to have forgotten it, because it send lots and lots of rain – just like in good old Germany. The only difference is here the streets stayed flooded.

So, what did we do on such a special day? Honestly, nothing except sleep, yes for some reason I’ve almost slept all of my birthday and, of course, hearing Mexican birthday songs. Till now there is still a birthday cake missing, but I’m hoping that till the weekend someone will buy me one. Just in case one of you wants to buy me a cake, I would be willing to give you my address so you can send it to me. A couple of days before the testing period and the Mexican independence day, the most important day in all Mexico, I’m sitting here without having no clue of what will actually in my exams or neither where I spend that oh so magical Independence day…

But what I do know is that there is suppose to be an awesome Book/ Café in Obregon called “Libros y Mas”.

I hope that this weekend I will get a chance to check it out and then tell you the truth: Do they have awesome cakes and salads or not. I want to close the post with the same theme I opened it - my birthday. Thank you for all those people that remembered it and said happy birthday to me. A very special: thank you, to all of those people that sang me songs or cooked tasty food for me. But at very last a special thank you for the person that bought me balloons in the color of the German flag (well at least almost, I understand that the balloon looked black when it wasn´t blown up). Yours Sincerely Thomas.

Yes I write sincerely to show everyo ne how mature I´m now.