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Guy Courchesne
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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject: December get-together in DF |
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Lozwich is coming to Mexico City from Colombia, so I think it would be best to plan aroud her arrival. Loz, you said the 11th, but that�s a Sunday...should it be an afternoon thing?
Any suggestions as to where? |
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lozwich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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What the????
Isn't Monday the 12th a holiday for that chick Guadalupe?
I was thinking it was, which is why I suggested the Sunday. Maybe we should move it. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Many people wil have the 12th off...though some teachers here will likely still be heading out to do their business EFL classes early Monday morning. Either way, I'm not sure on what would be open Sunday night...probably everything, but I wouldn't want us to be a rather large group wandering the empty Sunday streets looking for a good time. 
Let me ask around on what's going to be open. The Black Horse, where we've gone the last two times, will likely be open. Does that place sound ok? Round 7ish? |
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thelmadatter
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: whatever |
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Either way is good for me... Had a nice time at the last one although I was really tired. Alex has mentioned a couple of times how much he liked the bangers, tho he keeps calling them "salchichas irlandeses" Later that weekend I found some corned beef! (YEAH!) and was getting "high" just off the smell. Alex tried some and said it needed some chile and manchego cheese  But then that's what I get for dating a chilango, eh? |
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ls650
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Many people wil have the 12th off |
Not for me....
In fact, I found out Tuesday night that we have a new school calendar. Apparently the school has decided to give all the teachers Jan 2nd off. Sounds great ... but now we have to work Saturday Dec 10th to make up for the 'extra' day.
It's not that I mind working the Saturday, but the fact that we've been told about this schedule change less than 4 weeks before. Most of the language teachers have already bought plane tickets assuming we had to be back to teach on Jan 2nd. If we'd known earlier about the calendar change we could have booked our tickets to take advantage of the extra day.
As one teacher said in her Manchester accent, "Fer feck's sake!" |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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That sux. You're going home for the holidays? I was thinking about going to NYC for Christmas, but it appears I'll have to work through to late Dec. Times Square on New Year's would be cool, but tickets up and back are expensive round that time.
Bad news...The Black Horse doesn't open on Sundays or Mondays. http://www.caballonegro.com/
We'll have to pick a different spot. How about some voting? Music or no? Quiet or loud? Mexican or international? Drinks, food, both, or neither? Shall we all wear silly hats? |
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lozwich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| We'll have to pick a different spot. How about some voting? Music or no? Quiet or loud? Mexican or international? Drinks, food, both, or neither? Shall we all wear silly hats? |
Music is fine, but I'm not a huge fan of ranchera (unless I've had lots of tequila ).
What about quiet, then loud?
Drinks and food, or drinks only, or food only, but not neither.
NO WE WILL NOT ALL BE WEARING SILLY HATS! (you can, but I'm not!) |
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MELEE
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| lozwich wrote: |
| NO WE WILL NOT ALL BE WEARING SILLY HATS! (you can, but I'm not!) |
I would think that someone with a zipper for a mouth would feel at home in a silly hat... |
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lozwich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I would think that someone with a zipper for a mouth would feel at home in a silly hat... |
Not this little black duck!
Or should I say, not this orange, three fingered, zipper-mouthed children's tv show character! 
My aversion to silly hats all stems from my troubled childhood, where every Christmas my mother would get a little merry on cooking sherry while making the Christmas pudding, and insist on all of us wearing the dumbest things ever on our heads and (even worse) sing ridiculous songs.
Oh god, looks like its back to therapy for me now... |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| and insist on all of us wearing the dumbest things ever on our heads and (even worse) sing ridiculous songs. |
Shucks, I guess I'll cross that off the list of party activities I was thinking of. Is finger painting out too? How about the beer slide? |
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lozwich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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What?????
No finger painting or beer slide????  |
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Perpetual Traveller
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| lozwich wrote: |
| Or should I say, not this orange, three fingered, zipper-mouthed children's tv show character! |
Speaking of three fingered it strikes me as lucky that you do only have three otherwise that piccy could be interpreted as being quite rude!
| lozwich wrote: |
| My aversion to silly hats all stems from my troubled childhood, where every Christmas my mother would... insist on all of us wearing the dumbest things ever on our heads |
Was it the paper hats out of the Christmas crackers??? That's what we always ended up wearing during dinner at my house, after we'd read out all the crappy jokes of course! 
PT |
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lozwich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Perpetual Traveller wrote: |
| Was it the paper hats out of the Christmas crackers??? That's what we always ended up wearing during dinner at my house, after we'd read out all the crappy jokes of course! |
Yep. In the beginning it was those cheap Christmas crackers, and I'd get dye-coloured sweat running down my face because my folks would insist on having a proper cooked "English" Christmas dinner, on those lovely 40 degree Christmas days we get. Then, later on, my mum would spend half a mortgage repayment on buying more expensive crackers that contained hats that looked about 17 times more ridiculous!
At least the toys inside were better.
Getting horrible Christmas flashbacks now.. |
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Perpetual Traveller
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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My parents are English and even they didn't do that to us! Dad would do the roast in the weber and we'd eat out on the deck. Aaaahhhhh, ok, little bit Christmas homesick now.  Still this Christmas I'll be skiing in the French Alps... Better now!
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| Awright, Loz...thelmadatter has suggested an early evening outing to Xochimilco. Whaddya think? We rent ourselves a lancha, get some guy with singing talent to row us all off into the night while we drink ourselves silly? |
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