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Phil_K
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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: Cold Weather |
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OK, I admit it. It's ******* cold. It's funny how people say, "Ah, but you must be used it, coming from England". What? After 6 years aclimatization!
How's the weather in your neck of the woods? |
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MO39
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Cold Weather |
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| Phil_K wrote: |
| OK, I admit it. It's ******* cold. It's funny how people say, "Ah, but you must be used it, coming from England". |
Tell those people that in England (or in the U.S. or Canada), when the temperatures fall, we have HEAT in our houses! |
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cangringo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| It's beautiful here, finally cooling down. Really hot around noon and then cools off nicely in the evening and the mornings are nice and cool. What's funny is hubby's dad was just here and he thought it was hot because he came from rainy cold Vancouver. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Cold Weather |
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| MO39 wrote: |
| Phil_K wrote: |
| OK, I admit it. It's ******* cold. It's funny how people say, "Ah, but you must be used it, coming from England". |
Tell those people that in England (or in the U.S. or Canada), when the temperatures fall, we have HEAT in our houses! |
That's one that's always amazed me. That it's often cold in many places in Mexico in Autumn and Winter, but they build houses and apartments without an provision for that. Portable heaters can only heat one room at a time, and our estancia is enormous!
Guess I'll have to crawl under a duvet with a nice warm woman...oops, I mean, wife!
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TheLongWayHome
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Phil_K wrote: |
"Ah, but you must be used it, coming from England".
How's the weather in your neck of the woods? |
I get a lot of, 'Teacher, is like you country, no?' too but at least it's a dry cold here, not that damp, dark, bone-aching English cold.
What annoys/mystifies me here is that people think that the cold makes you ill, and through the sheer power of belief, start developing 'flu'. Do they think that we spend most of the year sick because it's cold? That Canadians live in a permanent state of ill health because of the cold? The media of course, doesn't help with its scaremongering and relentless advertising of flu remedies. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The media of course, doesn't help with its scaremongering and relentless advertising of flu remedies. |
I read in the Publimetro the other day that only about 7% of Mexicans are truely 100% healthy. Seems the advertising is working  |
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Samantha
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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It went down to a chilly 18C overnight here in Mazatlan. Soon we will be seeing the babies and small children wearing woolen hats and mittens. The contrast here in winter is rather funny. Canadian tourists in their shorts and t-shirts and locals all bundled up in their winter attire. Currently our daytime temperatures are still reaching 30C, and we are so ready for it to get cooler.
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MELEE
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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The sun finally came out today for the first time this week, so I've nearly defrosted. My house is nice and warm (built with hollow bricks so it's almost like insulation) but my office is that ferro cement stuff where they put up chicken wire than plaster the cement over it--it made of a nice curving flowing lines but IT'S COLD in here!
TLWH--Several years ago I said that same thing to my husband--What do you think the people in Alsaka are sick 9 months of the year????  |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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The BBC 5-day forecast for Mexico City is minimum temperatures Thurs-Mon of ................. -3C  |
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notamiss
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| TheLongWayHome wrote: |
What annoys/mystifies me here is that people think that the cold makes you ill, and through the sheer power of belief, start developing 'flu'. Do they think that we spend most of the year sick because it's cold? That Canadians live in a permanent state of ill health because of the cold? The media of course, doesn't help with its scaremongering and relentless advertising of flu remedies. |
See the other thread (http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=57194) on cultural differences. This is one difference I'll never get used to. It's hard to accept that our health-illness construct is culturally based until we come up against a completely foreign one like this heat-cold construct. It's so ingrained in the culture that even the physicians believe in it.
What I find funniest about it (I have to laugh or I'll be in a permanent state of frustration) is the belief that below 23 C is "too cold", above 26 C is "too hot" [speaking of the DF; of course the cutoff points are no doubt different in other climatic regions] and if there is a breeze, it's "cold" by definition, no matter what the temperature.
ETA: Oh, and now I can't breathe cold Canadian winter air before breaking into a coughing attack. I also have to be careful to eat ice cream or drink frozen smoothies very slowly or I also get the cough. Have I been in Mexico too long? I mean, this is so contrary to what I thought was true that it took many coughing attacks before I made the connection.
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Samantha
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| On this subject, the funniest thing I have ever seen is when it's "fresh" in the mornings (say between 12C and 15C) people cover their mouths so as not to breathe in the cooler air. That cooler air apparently does evil things to your vocal chords. I have sort of gotten used to the "don't drink cold water when you have a cold or really bad stuff will happen" thing. Surgical-style masks or towels over the mouth on morning walks along the sea wall is a common sight. It's fun to explain this to foreign visitors especially where 15C is a warm summer day where some come from. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| What I find funniest about it (I have to laugh or I'll be in a permanent state of frustration) is the belief that below 23 C is "too cold", above 26 C is "too hot" [speaking of the DF; of course the cutoff points are no doubt different in other climatic regions] and if there is a breeze, it's "cold" by definition, no matter what the temperature. |
 I thought that was just my wife! She doesn't even need a breeze, just walk into the shade on a hot day! |
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cangringo
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Yes I have already seen people break out their sweaters. I mean I bring one to work but that's cause the air conditioning is on -40 or some such.
They keep telling us that in December when it's 17 degrees or so they wear the coats and mittens. We tell them what Vancouver is like and they grow wide eyed with wonder and then we mention that it can get to -40 or colder elsewhere in Canada and they freak out. Of course now that I am acclimatized, I am finding it chilly at night.
Can't wait for winter here, it's going to be such a relief. |
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dixie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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It was a lovely 3.3 degrees here at 6am when I caught the bus (according to the radio anyways). All I know, is I am freakin� frozen!
The Mexicans do find it funny when I dress warmly because of the cold. I simply tell them that just because I am Canadian, doesn�t mean I like being cold. Plus, as was mentioned, I tell them we have heat in our houses (and I am still surprised at how they are surprised when I say that).
Thank god for dogs. Their body heat doesn�t rack up the electric bill the way my space heater did last year! |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Phil_K wrote: |
| The BBC 5-day forecast for Mexico City is minimum temperatures Thurs-Mon of ................. -3C |
Don't think it's going quite that low...very rare to drop below freezing in Mexico City. This morning is chilly,but not as bad as Monday was.
Any early risers see that full moon just as the sun is rising? Hanging at the top of the Torre Mayor on a clear and crisp morning from my rooftop point of view. |
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