The clean up around town from Tropical Storm Julio continues. The street food vendors were not allowed to work again until yesterday for fear of food contamination from the dust and what was in the dust (dried up sewage) after the storm. As they are again open we may go for tortas for dinner this evening. The closures were a good thing for the health of the people; but a very bad thing for the economics of the venders. The city is also worried about the mosquito population as there is still a lot of standing water and they are talking about increasing their fumigation program. Mosquitos are a worry here because of the possibility of them carrying Dengue fever.
On the homefront. On Tuesday as usual I went for my spanish class and then out for coffee with Bliss and Richard. Richard is from Scotland and has come here to teach at the same school as Cynthia. He has had a bit of a rough exposure so far in our city. Firstly is the heat, which he is not used to, then came Tropical Storm Julio and then he got "tourista" for a day or so. Hopefully he will bounce back from all this and not hold it against our city. We had a nice chat over some good coffee and then all headed our own way home.
Wednesday I went uptown to find out what documents we need this year to renew our FM3's, I can't believe that a year has gone by already. Time sure flys down here.
Last year when we got our FM3's we were told that we needed to get a Mexican bank account, naturally we procrastinated on that and didn't do it. This year we were told that we had to get one to get our FM3's, so yesterday we headed to the bank. We were going to do some checking and comparing between banks but decided to open an account at the first one we went to as the monthly rates weren't too bad. I had taken some documents with us and thankfully had everything we needed to open the account. To do almost anything here you need to take with you, your passports, your FM3's, and a utility bill. We were also asked for the names of 2 people we knew and their phone numbers. Luckily I had a paper in my purse with this information on it and we were set. After an amazing amount of paperwork and about an hour and a half, we were set up with an account and a debit card and were free to go.
As we were walking to the bus stop we saw a copy shop so stopped and got the copies of our passports made that we need for the FM3 application, so 2 birds with one stone yesterday.
This morning the bank from Canada sent the papers I need to my accountant, who then emailed them to me, so we should have everything together that we need for our FM3 renewal. On Monday we will take it to the office and see.
Today we need to go and get water and some groceries. Tomorrow we may get a cake and some coke and have the landlords up for desert, will see.
Oops, almost forgot to tell you, the shrimp fishing season opened here yesterday for the panga, small boat fishermen. There were according to the news about 2000 of the little boats out. The big boats don't get to go out until later on in the month, I think around the 23rd and they are expecting about 300 of those to be setting out from Guaymas. According to the newspaper the fishermen were happy with the catch.
Photo from El Vigia newspaper, don't they look yummy?
