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geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

Many of the cultural centers offer art classes. They are extremely inexpensive. I am currently taking a class at the Museo de Caricature on Donceles Street, and although not an art center, am only paying a whopping 25 pesos per hour. My goodness, in the states you would be paying 20-25 USD for drawing lessons, if not more.
The insurgentes metro station also has a cultural center in the glorieta as well as a companion gallery. The offer digital photography, grabado, dibujo, pinturas, and several other mediums. I am specifically looking for ceramics and jewelry making, the latter is widely offered including at CECATI government art school in the Chapultepec area, but ceramics is hard to come by. Supposedly, there are ceramic stores 2 blocks behind the Municipio National in the Zocala that offer clay classes but I could as of yet not find them.
For those of you who want free haircuts there is a hair salon in the glorieta insurgentes that is a training school for wannabe barbers.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

MO39 · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

I'm with Guy on the free haircut thing. Before your trust your curly locks to unpracticed scissors, I'd wait outside this salon and look at the newly shorn customers as they're leaving the premises and ask myself, "Is this how I want to look for the next few weeks?" Geoff, when I lived in your DF neighborhood a couple of years ago, I was able to get an excellent haircut at a very nice place, right in back of the American embassy, for a very reasonable price, partly because it done before 2:00 in the afternoon

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Judging from Guys picture, I should think he needn't worry about curly-locks being shorn off. Laughing

Hats off to Geoffrey for posting the good little deals he finds. Every little bit helps for ESL teachers in Mexico and I'm sure many will appreciate this. Some of the higher priced barber/salons give really bad haircuts so I wouldn't rule out trainees for a simple, basic simple cut.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I should update my photo...I've re-aquired some hair. Laughing

In the current photo, you see what happens when you let your spouse use the dog clippers on you.

It took me some time, but I did find a barber...not a salon, not a stylist, not a Hollywood hair, nail, and facelift place...a BARBER. Striped pole and all. Straight razor and strop, with a splash of tequila. 60 pesos. I don't trust a barber under 60 years of age either.

Wink

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

The Geoffrey "finds" should perhaps be put into a new thread so they don't get lost in this one, and teachers can add to the thread as new freebies come along (or real bargains).

MO39 · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

I also appreciate the DF deals that Geoff has been sharing with us. But when it comes to haircuts, I'd rather pay a fair price to get a really good one, rather than trusting my locks to an inexperienced haircutter. Getting a good haircut every couple of months no matter where I'm living is one of my few concessions to female vanity.

Gregor · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 842 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Honestly, I don't know why everyone is so jittery about a free haircut. Before I was married, I just cut my OWN hair. When I got married, my wife cut my hair and she'd never cut hair or had any training at all before. I don't care. Sort of the punk rock attitude of hair care. NOW I go to a barber occasionally only because I remember it being a hassle to cut my own hair...

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

How about having the next get together at that barber school? I'm sure everyone would get a big kick out of posting photos here of the results of a mass EFL teacher haircut-a-thon.

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

I�m all for it, Guy. And since you proposed the idea, why not let you go first, and then the rest of us can laugh our heads off.
Really, the trainee did an acceptable job and what was not successful, the trainer came buy and snipped away to get right. The second time I went the barber sheared me a crew cut, number three attachment on the razor all the way. I now look like Guy in his message board photo. Come to think of it, I look a little like Guy anyway.