Vote for Isis - Win some whiskey!

I didn't win the liquor. But I thought this was about the coolest illegal maneuver anybody could pull at a popularity contest voting booth. As you came into the Chico y Chica UNPA finale dance venue, you had to put your ticket into one of these receptacles to vote for your favorite. One of the contestants, Isis, had a crony holding this sign: After you vote for Isis, Ariadna will give you a ticket for the whiskey raffle!
Of course you must know how I voted...

Pool with some professors

Ahhhh, the joys of Mexican University life! Here, it is completely normal to have a popularity/talent contest to elect a Boy and Girl UNPA every year. The last round of the competition is a dance routine competition where the contestants rope their most graceful friends into doing a disco-dance spectacle. I knew I couldn't miss this.
But before we went, we met up with some of the other professors and went to the Trova bar to get a buzz. I was really looking forward to it because they have shisha there and I was about drooling over the thought of tobacco. So we got there and OF COURSE they had no charcoal so we couldn't smoke shisha. Tuxtepec giveth and Tuxtepec taketh away.

Iguana

We got to work yesterday to find this giant iguana dying on the steps of the Centro de Idiotas. We all had to poke at it and take pictures, but then some Mexican professors who knew NOT what they were doing came out and decided they needed to pour peroxide on it's ass because it looked wounded. Something was protruding, anyway, like hemmorhoids or something. We thought it was awful that they kept fucking with the poor thing. And it did die eventually that day. Who knows? But at least I got some good pictures of the local fauna :)
But now I come to the moral dilemma part. Well, not really moral dilemma so much as a complaint about myself. After I looked at these pictures I started to feel like one of those assholes at Abu Ghraib that took pictures of themselves posing with the humiliated prisoners. Should I feel that way? I don't know. But I kinda do. I need a drink. :)

Morning Sun

I took this out the window of the Tux Van on the way to school one day last week. The sun was looking really good, but I never was able to get a clear shot at it. The driver was driving like a maniac as usual. But I figure I'd post this picture because I see this landscape every day here and I'd like to remember it. It makes me realize I'm in a strange and foreign place.

Dancers

Little Dancers.
In the main plaza in Tuxtepec there is a stage. And a bandstand. But the stage is where they mount public productions on the weekends. They have a lot of events: music, fashion shows, speeches, and traditional dance. I was coming home one day and passed this group of kids. They were a little shakey in their performance. Like kids do, they stood around some and stared at each other when they got lost. But they were all right. I figure they'll improve and end up being quite good at it.