SoLeRo ICe

Today I saw an add in my yahoo.com.mx account in which they were promoting an ice lolly called Solero. I just wanted to say that the slogan "para esta temporada" (meaning, for this season) sounded to me as if they were mocking us here. For this season...!!?? for this season I still have my heater on, I still wear scarves to go out and I still have a cold!!! damn you English weather!!!!!

Ha!

PLEASE ADOPT US!!!!

After a whole month of inactivity mainly due to the fact that i've been wasting my time trying to speak with the $%&/%·! bureaucracy (¿?) of the prestigious University of Manchester, I'm writing again after my well deserved long weekend in Cornwall.

I must say, I wasn't actually expecting the weekend to go nice, I didn't have too much expectations from a retired couple who volunteered for a programme called Host. HOW WRONG I WAS!!!!!!!! It was funny that when we got out of the pseudoplane (are the ones with propellers called planes anyway??? should they still exist in an era where you can actually see the Earth from the stratosphwhateverosphere?... the link used to be there i guess they don't do it anymore)... anyway, after getting off the pseudoplane, the first person I saw waiting in the waiting lounge was an old grumpy lady. My first thought was to run away and get on the next plane going anywhere, but then I realised that she wasn't the host, and that the person waiting for us had a small resemblance with any of my friend's dads... not old, still active and actually fun.

The weekend consisted of trying to keep on with the hosts, a retired couple of about 60 something who actually were more active than us (J & I). We managed to see most of the great places to visit in Cornwall, we had wonderful food (really posh really good really countrylike homecooked handpicked). We went to a place where they still sold handcrafted goods from England!!! (never thought those kind of activities...i.e. handcrafting things... were possible in this turbodeveloped country).

Anyway, it was the greatest among the greatest experiences i have had in England so far, and the couple actually invited us to come along and visit again anytime (when they have time...) Great, now I know that British Hospitality exists and that I should go out once in a while trying to know more people from other places instead of being president of the Mexican society ;)