Typical week

This week I did average American things, such as going to bars, the park with Leo and the mall. Yesterday I spent some the day just hanging out with some Mexicans at their house. Other than the music being a little different and the conversation mostly in Spanish (as well as a cold tamale from a street vendor) it was pretty familiar. If you buy the larger glass bottles of beer, you have to turn in the old bottles to buy new ones, apparently, as the beer companies reuse them.

I knew that the Mexican minimum wage was about three bucks a day, but even if you work in, for example, a book store, you make only about 7.50 dollars a day. Not an hour. Where many things are not all that much cheaper than in the U.S., it is surprising that anyone is able to make it on that wage. The cost of living overall, though, is much higher in the United States, where we have plenty of poor people as well.