tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343563772024-03-29T02:07:58.082-07:00. mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.comBlogger6397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-12722183954688893032023-01-05T19:54:00.006-08:002023-01-05T19:54:42.468-08:00Thursday 5 th January 2023…it was a great run!!!<p> This was my first ever blog post back in November of 2006!!!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfA1Y2ZGFAvI3OnyLE6lKVgI_iq62KRe6svM8ExTAv17lcZHwZY-oSikmi2bahiPqVOJ2J8Yl0Og_eSgz_4Npi7OAcpjrGHfqbRokCugXPsVNfRlEiIxEualeUysHuVyspuuyk2LgJwURjHA4guK5fcdppeAbtm3jl1iLatiMBKRksbx5SaXQ/s1046/36E920E3-B21A-4C02-B552-DFF1A63F0D09.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1030" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfA1Y2ZGFAvI3OnyLE6lKVgI_iq62KRe6svM8ExTAv17lcZHwZY-oSikmi2bahiPqVOJ2J8Yl0Og_eSgz_4Npi7OAcpjrGHfqbRokCugXPsVNfRlEiIxEualeUysHuVyspuuyk2LgJwURjHA4guK5fcdppeAbtm3jl1iLatiMBKRksbx5SaXQ/s320/36E920E3-B21A-4C02-B552-DFF1A63F0D09.jpeg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With just a couple of days off I have written a blog every day since and I have now decided that the time has come for me to close the blog down…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have so enjoyed writing about my life here all these years but I am not disappearing you will be able to find a couple of posts a week on my Face Book page.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you to every one for supporting, encouraging and being there for me all these years….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wish you all a very safe and healthy and happy 2023…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Best wishes and a final Yashi Kochi!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjUfXvXzP8PlkOc8V8zRo4rp-Tx1nDvGNbK2Fx_URySxtQkAoUyg-Vt4v7hfgUhLuuNOfLeDMnEA7plsuzqlUb-EQ4jHPqnZGxTOCDG-NehTqd-xJfWb3Sm-bEZBZAPasLk3IvGCefANAs-go1hjXSxOjK60oAIJGD5MQ4QANplerIGM-Aas/s690/C495145C-E70E-4CEA-9648-2856E5701BBB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="690" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjUfXvXzP8PlkOc8V8zRo4rp-Tx1nDvGNbK2Fx_URySxtQkAoUyg-Vt4v7hfgUhLuuNOfLeDMnEA7plsuzqlUb-EQ4jHPqnZGxTOCDG-NehTqd-xJfWb3Sm-bEZBZAPasLk3IvGCefANAs-go1hjXSxOjK60oAIJGD5MQ4QANplerIGM-Aas/s320/C495145C-E70E-4CEA-9648-2856E5701BBB.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-56197598678041312162023-01-03T18:29:00.001-08:002023-01-03T18:29:17.026-08:00Tuesday 3 rd January 2023…..we did it!!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mission accomplished!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This morning 16 friends and I went out to three schools where the children were waiting patiently for their gift from a real live king or queen. 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We were able to give over 1100 children a gift.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Best wishes. Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-64748925216095049852023-01-02T19:02:00.000-08:002023-01-02T19:02:02.065-08:00Monday 2 nd January 2023…..Stage 2 complete!!!<p> With a small band of merry elves we were able to inflate 550 soccer balls…..</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOdwdpP2aKOIxtbaaYOcwbmB-0GuRUiNNynpw_fB6lFImTTbHsKGHn2ZYxtmG8Y2Gt9e8T-gQk7rGu8q21Dw3E7BUPyng4ufVse20Tq3kp8ekEf7znBn6z9F_f_QZkyz7dGfVbByAm5R49JSZPJuT1OZC4exFWKNH9We82WHLN7IbrxAM2G8/s1143/1D514C95-6011-42C8-987F-272947F1FE9C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">Welcome back and rabbits, rabbits, rabbits and happy and healthy 2023 to everyone!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Here is a plan for you for the month……</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I like this quote…</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigd3PKxHbFA0oRUJRZvW6bgZ4ZWh5tiic9V79hAbhShGg3KB7sj16wWMo_PsuP7IMog3kke1TtYIHBaz304cT62zHbFIeuGYOrlVldsMj8ksYviQ5xJy5arr9dISYO2f9-bzQcwV1x4hJvxi6B-Dc_wu5ln9AhCFurse4ebzwhaa6GtCz_xUE/s1233/3A39ED57-A48A-4AE8-A43E-58D9DF221AA3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfeehdPOOve4refOyCa5OsdMw6orzmvvhhSbtec3WE8v_WlIV1mpTLXWuGQX_2u2agz_UXXKYIHgQzYzKsrGiMKuyBViknJWLkbduA8ytb3UI4FWB0rhxy3Q5XvXErta_XfI6BmsAuOYhgoqsOvRa3oA-dF_B648BXuNoPCINtI_ZQO2OmMc/s833/7DB43F6B-F322-4761-8714-538EBD7EBE78.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="833" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfeehdPOOve4refOyCa5OsdMw6orzmvvhhSbtec3WE8v_WlIV1mpTLXWuGQX_2u2agz_UXXKYIHgQzYzKsrGiMKuyBViknJWLkbduA8ytb3UI4FWB0rhxy3Q5XvXErta_XfI6BmsAuOYhgoqsOvRa3oA-dF_B648BXuNoPCINtI_ZQO2OmMc/s320/7DB43F6B-F322-4761-8714-538EBD7EBE78.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-20096067785236795162022-12-18T16:25:00.002-08:002022-12-18T16:25:40.634-08:00Sunday 18 th December 2022…last one for the year!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">Well that was some final soccer game to finish this years World Cup and again I totally disagree that a team sport like soccer should be settled on penalty kicks there is always going to be a hero and then some poor guy who has to live the rest of his life knowing he missed a chance for his team and country!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The town is very busy now gearing up for the holiday season and the streets are very decorative I enjoyed walking around this afternoon with Frida, she is such a lovely dog.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Tomorrow is the day we lost our dear Andy one year ago, he is missed and often talked about and in our thoughts and prayers!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzJ8-Hd6PuZgNl8vZxGPxtAnsnU_GsG1scQktQFRePcJlJH5ngKe5zVp7dCMu5MuKJw47JCw8VEI95hgogwlPwcHJX_Q0thxyrlymQyH_wBnlLoksQg1jmtaKOyDx8eVSpPI14QPt1vHDDe9pM6JeYVrimUOlO1763q4G4sDqL4kIgGC5hoI/s1320/C3129C0A-421C-4D2B-908D-04A9FC64C9FA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="995" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzJ8-Hd6PuZgNl8vZxGPxtAnsnU_GsG1scQktQFRePcJlJH5ngKe5zVp7dCMu5MuKJw47JCw8VEI95hgogwlPwcHJX_Q0thxyrlymQyH_wBnlLoksQg1jmtaKOyDx8eVSpPI14QPt1vHDDe9pM6JeYVrimUOlO1763q4G4sDqL4kIgGC5hoI/s320/C3129C0A-421C-4D2B-908D-04A9FC64C9FA.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My regular readers know that I am not a huge fan of Christmas and the new year and I have decided to take a break from the blog till 1 st <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>January ……my next blog will bring in 2023 and in time to update you all on the Three Kings toy drive.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I wish you all a very safe and happy holidays, best wishes…..</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-7850661815613456522022-12-17T16:40:00.001-08:002022-12-17T16:40:50.514-08:00Saturday 17 th December 2022…a nice read!!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">I like this</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">An old man meets a young man who asks:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“Do you remember me?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And the old man says no. Then the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“What do you do, what do you do in life?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The young man answers:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“Well, I became a teacher.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“ah, how good, like me?” Asks the old man.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The old man, curious, asks the young man at what time he decided to become a teacher. And the young man tells him the following story:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“One day, a friend of mine, also a student, came in with a nice new watch, and I decided I wanted it.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I stole it, I took it out of his pocket.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Shortly after, my friend noticed the his watch was missing and immediately complained to our teacher, who was you.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then you addressed the class saying, ‘This student's watch was stolen during classes today. Whoever stole it, please return it.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I didn't give it back because I didn't want to.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You closed the door and told us all to stand up and form a circle.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You were going to search our pockets one by one until the watch was found.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">However, you told us to close our eyes, because you would only look for his watch if we all had our eyes closed.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We did as instructed.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You went from pocket to pocket, and when you went through my pocket, you found the watch and took it. You kept searching everyone's pockets, and when you were done you said ‘open your eyes. We have the watch.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You didn't tell on me and you never mentioned the episode. You never said who stole the watch either. That day you saved my dignity forever. It was the most shameful day of my life.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But this is also the day I decided not to become a thief, a bad person, etc. You never said anything, nor did you even scold me or take me aside to give me a moral lesson.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I received your message clearly.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thanks to you, I understood what a real educator needs to do.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Do you remember this episode, professor?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The old professor answered, ‘Yes, I remember the situation with the stolen watch, which I was looking for in everyone’s pocket. I didn't remember you, because I also closed my eyes while looking.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This is the essence of teaching:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If to correct you must humiliate; you don't know how to teach.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOIEoFVT4rXNKnwEQ5iRhVrZxCLrRc-hWYwqxfEWSw_AeE-GpA5l1QG9AQOVsVpJsf5C_af1xfCES42JG1k03MBx5YmQoJjTxLH1vP7Z0ccIbSx0XjB2lDpgbO_mmC_GHF-C06v3c6ustP5dhswVpPTXz72Jd56_SJsOAvNYr8ZJ0ntzuD_s/s1041/4DF1C394-7C61-4B6C-B28F-9E503F127BA8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-90564312568465455422022-12-16T17:26:00.004-08:002022-12-16T17:26:57.401-08:00Friday 16 th December 2022…a special day!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">Today was Food hamper delivery day….</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Lynn, Reyes and myself went out this afternoon to deliver some food hampers to some families that Iive in town…..</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">For me this was one of the most humbling and thought provoking times in the two years we have been doing this project.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">One of the families has a beautiful young daughter who is just over a year old and she was born with many medical issues and spent the majority of her young life in hospital but thankfully is home for Christmas, this is the first time we have met Dulce and it was a very moving experience for us all!!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Another of the homes we visited was to the family, Mum and her two young daughters who were involved in that tragic bus accident a few weeks ago…..sadly the Mum is completely bed ridden but thankfully the two girls were not seriously hurt and they were happy to have a new book…..</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcujQ9umqdHe1kBgbKhyYXISUDTfQRfNMqXFZsKr2G8XIDot5zbW8gZywRlDwyJ0fPNMzOn8GrLg8oDOlsyriJvRIqgbIyo0dbnfhlY8W5MpGw3vwcYW468_7wRT8dX_cVcMFcdHfZypX3An--B34eb0VOYIy67gj5BMSr6o_yud9BAKNeops/s3023/0D596396-578F-4690-9317-C1A983A84446.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3023" data-original-width="2075" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcujQ9umqdHe1kBgbKhyYXISUDTfQRfNMqXFZsKr2G8XIDot5zbW8gZywRlDwyJ0fPNMzOn8GrLg8oDOlsyriJvRIqgbIyo0dbnfhlY8W5MpGw3vwcYW468_7wRT8dX_cVcMFcdHfZypX3An--B34eb0VOYIy67gj5BMSr6o_yud9BAKNeops/s320/0D596396-578F-4690-9317-C1A983A84446.jpeg" width="220" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I love the look on the little boys face looking up at his older brother…..</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRuXHFmGdyQYZSCe6kMrsUPMrD7I_uIOTlgbxbbT9nV-P3XatthMQt1jB9d7QzrUdKoXNoW7JaddUnN-4BfwzFac8IzXRy4BDxCWS8LQUr9nHZW5DU5a0WH_VjWSFkSk_26VSmDo6BrW83naD7fBNzVZa-tI2R8JVXlGwV4yhkUOyVN8LBsQ/s3935/1CDC15E2-5AA7-48C7-A8E3-BD4698E37592.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3935" data-original-width="2488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRuXHFmGdyQYZSCe6kMrsUPMrD7I_uIOTlgbxbbT9nV-P3XatthMQt1jB9d7QzrUdKoXNoW7JaddUnN-4BfwzFac8IzXRy4BDxCWS8LQUr9nHZW5DU5a0WH_VjWSFkSk_26VSmDo6BrW83naD7fBNzVZa-tI2R8JVXlGwV4yhkUOyVN8LBsQ/s320/1CDC15E2-5AA7-48C7-A8E3-BD4698E37592.jpeg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I do want to say huge thanks to all the many people who donate to us which enables us to take some small joy out to the less fortunate families….I am aware that other people are helping both these families but if you would like to help on this holiday season please contact me at</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">mexicokid77@yahoo.com</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Best wishes stay safe and happy for the holidays..</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-62052011812571257382022-12-15T17:36:00.004-08:002022-12-15T17:36:44.353-08:00Thursday 15 th December 2022…the story behind…<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">I think an interesting read….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A curious U.S. ambassador and the American family who patented poinsettia varieties are behind the holiday ubiquity <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/14/how-plants-make-us-happier-and-healthier"><span class="s2">of a plant</span></a> that originated in Mexico.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Why it matters: The poinsettia, which blooms for only a couple of weeks in November and December, is one of the<a href="https://flowerpowerdaily.com/how-the-poinsettia-took-over-christmas/"><span class="s2"> best-selling</span></a> flowers worldwide. It’s especially popular in the U.S, where the market was worth an estimated<a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/floran20.pdf"><span class="s2"> $153 million</span></a> in 2020.</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But because most poinsettia varieties are patented in the U.S. and have international protections, Mexican farmers have been forced to pay breeder's rights fees to grow and sell them.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The backstory: Aztecs in the 14th century called the plant cuetlaxóchitl, which roughly means "leathered flower" in Náhuatl.</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They used it for warrior<a href="https://www.gob.mx/agricultura/articulos/nochebuena-flor-identitaria-de-mexico"><span class="s2"> rituals</span></a> and dyes, and the latex sap to treat wounds and help break a fever.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other Mesoamerican civilizations had different names. The Maya, for example, called it k'alul wits, which roughly translates to "fire flower."</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It wasn't until the first Spanish settlers arrived in Mexico in the 16th century that the plant was specifically linked to the Christmas season.</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Colonizers used what they eventually called "flor de nochebuena," or Christmas Eve flower, to decorate nativity scenes to mark Christmas and <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25602444"><span class="s2">attract people to the faith</span></a>.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In 1825, four years after Mexico became an independent nation, diplomat Joel Robert Poinsett — who counted botany among his hobbies — was appointed as the first U.S. ambassador to the country.</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Admiring the plant during Christmas, Poinsett sent samples to friends, before<a href="https://colostate.pressbooks.pub/fundamentalsofplantgenebanking/chapter/phytosanitaryregulartorypgr/#:~:text=2.1%20Introduction,Act%20(PQA)%20in%201912."><span class="s2">the U.S. had</span></a> phytosanitary regulations.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eventually, a sample from Poinsett made its way to a Philadelphia Botanic Garden, which debuted the plant in the U.S. at an 1829 <a href="https://www.bartramsgarden.org/americas-first-poinsettia-introduction-bartrams-garden/"><span class="s2">flower show</span></a>. It then spread throughout the country and across Europe under the name poinsettia.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Among the poinsettia's early propagators were the Ecke family, who<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP242P/"><span class="s2"> patented it</span></a> after the 1930 Plant Patent Act was passed. The family made the plant smaller, before<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/Ecke-family-made-poinsettias-a-holiday-tradition-2324348.php#taboola-2"><span class="s2"> mass-marketing it</span></a> as a "California Christmas flower."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Ecke family's patent is one of many for poinsettia varieties that remains in place today. Those varieties also have global protections through the<a href="https://www.upov.int/portal/index.html.en"><span class="s2"> International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants</span></a>.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mexican growers also cannot sell their poinsettias to the U.S. as full plants, just as cuttings, because of<a href="https://www.deseret.com/2004/12/18/19867408/mexico-sees-red-over-poinsettias"><span class="s2"> regulations related to soil</span></a>.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">What to watch: The patents affect most varieties of the plant, but Mexican botanists and farmers are working to register <a href="https://tecreview.tec.mx/2021/12/08/ciencia/nochebuena-mexicana-historia-y-reconquista/"><span class="s2">other varieties</span></a> that won't be subject to the fees.</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So far, they've registered <a href="https://www.jornada.com.mx/2022/12/04/estados/022n2est"><span class="s2">seven varieties</span></a> with the Mexican regulator — the first step in obtaining international protections.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Between the lines: For years, Mexicans used the word poinsettismo, referring to Poinsett, to describe actions perceived as<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Escoces"><span class="s2"> American meddling</span></a> ahead of the Mexican-American War.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgUY3SO3f42DyDx-LN4P9sjc8Z3PzLQ6fvtSvA0uc9CL0jAyHMSHoHAnV7ynRqQsEWI_Dn96I08yUA7o5uFW0yklo2at9SDYUxVwidcHRFYdugQTKinvhCpmuiRmp2vHGuZOSgNGe16aGJWqPuP7GmUp92g3jh48WtS5Nub8WAbnPYqB2XcE/s1136/6A512C12-CA77-4F20-90E4-A5F826E13494.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgUY3SO3f42DyDx-LN4P9sjc8Z3PzLQ6fvtSvA0uc9CL0jAyHMSHoHAnV7ynRqQsEWI_Dn96I08yUA7o5uFW0yklo2at9SDYUxVwidcHRFYdugQTKinvhCpmuiRmp2vHGuZOSgNGe16aGJWqPuP7GmUp92g3jh48WtS5Nub8WAbnPYqB2XcE/s320/6A512C12-CA77-4F20-90E4-A5F826E13494.jpeg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-61268465768317952242022-12-14T20:12:00.001-08:002022-12-14T20:12:32.768-08:00Wednesday 14 th December 2022..ENGLISH class!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">This</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">morning I had a knee massage and it feels so much better I am happy to report.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Won again at poker only 100 pesos but still a win!!!!♣️♠️♦️♥️</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On my walk with Frida this afternoon I saw this horse again…..a lady rides her bare back all over town and when she goes into a res like she did today she just ties up the horse, sure is beautiful and was friendly towards Frida!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3019" data-original-width="3037" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YEksUXOq8XqS7dCsxVhLpabSv7PhkAp4Ed9g5Fq-RnJbKWxQU8hCWEXH3Nc3MjlSZbHgsUC0RGKuRijeWnzRoQGtZKBigsBEbsmdyzj40dY2GLhlRA8eISR9YMYu1ycUPNwv33GOCt7OWzhLidZPdFsQ8jFiEEusba1A8Q8QBOeva6BJ4zw/s320/B95F065E-476D-46C7-9688-756FE94F8798.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s3"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sadly Angela was not in class tonight but we are saving the cake for tomorrow when the school has a small party and Angela will be there!!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So France won their soccer game today and now they will face Argentina in the final on Sunday!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-64271074060308592162022-12-13T19:25:00.003-08:002022-12-13T19:25:35.065-08:00Tuesday 13 th December 2022…easy blog!!<p> Lovely sunny day…</p><p>Two hours of tennis this morning knee felt good…..</p><p>Watched Argentina make the final of the World Cup…..</p><p>Walked Frida….</p><p>Went to a small party for the teachers at the English school…</p><p>Watching a good new show with tea and home made Banana cake, thanks Paula….</p><p><br /></p><p>Stay safe and healthy!!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JoIoAxWC4toP0XE6Q0NsNvkL2RERc1fH4nhjj9tdU6j4waATtyqMsPBTtVW1gOcFXE0COE4cUCJSWuEHAAdjJJ56Qw9aFutandkLTUTQ2dW4CBfj9v3Rj6Jts9dC3ZMioHD7M52i3lUaUgCnyQY-FlyeZWRfyIGIQrHU-qlMPs9Ynybs1JI/s817/E03D1500-C62E-46A5-BA2D-04F48B1570C9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="670" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JoIoAxWC4toP0XE6Q0NsNvkL2RERc1fH4nhjj9tdU6j4waATtyqMsPBTtVW1gOcFXE0COE4cUCJSWuEHAAdjJJ56Qw9aFutandkLTUTQ2dW4CBfj9v3Rj6Jts9dC3ZMioHD7M52i3lUaUgCnyQY-FlyeZWRfyIGIQrHU-qlMPs9Ynybs1JI/s320/E03D1500-C62E-46A5-BA2D-04F48B1570C9.jpeg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Yashi Kochi!!</p><p><br /></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-33608969159803713342022-12-12T17:59:00.000-08:002022-12-12T17:59:02.682-08:00Monday 12 th December 2022…a very special day in Mexico!!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin is known for receiving the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Born in 1474 in Cuautlitlán, Mexico (near present-day Mexico City), he was one of the Chichimeca people. Around 1524, he was baptized by Friar Peter da Gand, an early Franciscan missionary. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Juan Diego’s Vision</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">On December 9, 1531, Mary appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill while he was on his way to Mass. She asked him to approach the bishop and request that a shrine be built to her there, where she would bless those who called upon her. However, when Juan Diego requested this of the bishop, the bishop demanded proof of the vision</span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://www.nationalshrine.org/interactive-map/?location=im-49"><img alt="OLO-Guadalupe-1-1024x683.jpg" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/64e9c0f6-5cbb-4eb4-b1be-36c27f89112f" /></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://www.nationalshrine.org/interactive-map/?location=im-49">Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Juan Diego returned to the hill, where roses were blooming, though it was almost winter. He picked some of the flowers and brought them in his cloak to the bishop. When he opened his cloak, the flowers fell out and an image of the Blessed Mother was imprinted on it. The Bishop then gave his blessing, and a chapel was built on the hill.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Juan Diego’s cloak was placed in the chapel, and he lived in a small dwelling near the chapel for the rest of his life, serving as its caretaker, greeting pilgrims, and spending time in prayer and devotion. In 1548, he passed away and was buried in the chapel.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 31.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On May 6, 1990, Juan Diego was canonized by Pope John Paul II at the Basilica of Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico City. The cloak imprinted with the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary received by Juan Diego is still preserved there today. With native features and dress, Mary is portrayed with the moon at her feet, her mantle covered with stars, and an angel supports her. She is also pregnant, as demonstrated by the black girdle around her waist; a picture of how Christ’s gospel is born among the people of the New World.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">This image is also depicted in the <a href="https://www.nationalshrine.org/interactive-map/?location=im-49">Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe</a>in the Basilica. Here, Mary is surrounded by the people of the North, Central, and South Americas, carrying lighted candles in procession. The walls of the chapel are curved to imitate the experience of the apparition</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 31.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The Significance of Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Juan Diego is significant because he was one of the first indigenous people in the New World to embrace Catholicism. As Pope John Paul II <a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20020731_canonization-mexico.html">said at Juan Diego’s canonization</a>: </span></p><p class="p6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://www.nationalshrine.org/interactive-map/?location=im-49"><img alt="OL-of-Guadalupe-1-e1606166358288.jpg" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6ad05a08-40a4-4613-90ae-9f7197bf1a02" /></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In accepting the Christian message without forgoing his indigenous identity, Juan Diego discovered the profound truth of the new humanity, in which all are called to be children of God. Thus he facilitated the fruitful meeting of two worlds and became the catalyst for the new Mexican identity, closely united to Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose mestizo face expresses her spiritual motherhood which embraces all Mexicans. This is why the witness of his life must continue to be the inspiration for the building up of the Mexican nation, encouraging brotherhood among all its children and ever helping to reconcile Mexico with its origins, values and traditions.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel at the Basilica is inscribed with the following prayer, requesting the intercession of the Blessed Mother under her title as the Patroness of Latin America:</span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength. Hear my prayer offered with deepfelt confidence to beg this favor…. O Mary, conceived without sin, I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to you under the glorious Aztec title of “Guadalupe” the virgin who crushed the serpent. Queen of Martyrs, whose Immaculate heart was pierced by seven wounds of grief, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns thrown across my pathway. Queen of Apostles aid me to win souls for the Sacred Heart of my Savior. I plead this through the merits of your merciful Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-52680770340798486532022-12-11T19:43:00.002-08:002022-12-11T19:43:41.023-08:00Sunday 11 December 2022…Frida!!!<p> I did not walk FRIDA all last week because of my knee but I did take her out this afternoon she was so excited to see me and we had a great walk we had a lot to catch up on yes I talk to her all the time…she is such a great happy and special dog!!!!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;"> </span></p><div data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watching the post-match scene at the Al Bayt Stadium brought flashbacks - to the World Cup semi-final defeat against Croatia in Moscow in 2018, to the European Championship final loss to Italy at Wembley 16 months ago.</span></p><div class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.1" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.1.$body-0" id="bbccom_mpu_1_2_3" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: -8px;"><div class="bbccom_advert" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.1.$body-0.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div></div></div><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Amid the pain of their latest defeat, Southgate offered consolation to devastated </span><a class="story-body__internal-link" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">England</span></a><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.3" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> players who inspired hope, only to see potential glory wrenched from their grasp. </span></p><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A 2-1 World Cup quarter-final loss to holders France, here in Qatar, was a brutal outcome. England's display deserved at least to drag the game into extra time. </span></p><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Perhaps this is why it felt different, even more painful, for England this time. A genuine opportunity to win this World Cup had opened up for Southgate's team, an emerging blend of youth and experience.</span></p><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="" data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgtr5FEqFSOp1dYXyMtQKGorExN_vK-28jxrmasX6xa330VpxuFL8kUlEAVWA5S3fxDpdTrHQvuVscypxagdOnPS_6GyYsdAUCAdHwm14yGyXowB6S2b2RVzXFuT8MsG9bbLw1o5w280sP__dOcfJ9qGGyhULg_0zZOQOFR5KOUBB9EvggDg/s936/704DFE7F-7C60-49F0-94F4-E74AE40CF73D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span data-reactid=".ucup592itq.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-25737607761613050652022-12-09T19:24:00.002-08:002022-12-09T19:24:40.872-08:00Friday 9 th december 2022…soccer day<p> Well it is not all that I did today but I did sit and watch two very entertaining soccer games in the knock out stages of the World Cup…..Both matches went to extra time and then the dreaded penalty shootout……I have never agreed with this format to decide a game….soccer is a team sport and always after the penalty shootout there is one player who is a hero and one who must for the rest of his life know he missed and let his team, country and fans down……</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2K_EG0A476g-0z-OUHFNnXlOm5cM1Z_vH7U_rrMG6oCs3d30e51lcWHRgMzTaGrdUZ1M1yz2wAeGRtelZqdLNlzJsbQl7myGz_RA5DJbkh_zkv5Hmdd2Gpx3sJy10HwHXAopttjKjYKrHqCAL8ADl4JwnrBpDfNapMqKnEF9jrqjzMptRVio/s1435/00B63FC1-F427-44EA-9EA7-55C9EF686941.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="1435" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2K_EG0A476g-0z-OUHFNnXlOm5cM1Z_vH7U_rrMG6oCs3d30e51lcWHRgMzTaGrdUZ1M1yz2wAeGRtelZqdLNlzJsbQl7myGz_RA5DJbkh_zkv5Hmdd2Gpx3sJy10HwHXAopttjKjYKrHqCAL8ADl4JwnrBpDfNapMqKnEF9jrqjzMptRVio/s320/00B63FC1-F427-44EA-9EA7-55C9EF686941.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Both games were enjoyable to watch…..Big game for England mañana!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Stay safe and healthy!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yashi Kochi!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-31208219640296005212022-12-08T16:42:00.001-08:002022-12-08T16:42:12.542-08:00Thursday 8 th December 2022….a lovely day even though I did not play tennis!!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">So many kind and generous people donate to my two projects, the food hampers and the Three Kings toy drive and this morning I went and picked up some donated items including a huge box full of Christmas decorations from a lovely couple living in town.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The timing could not have been better!!!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There is a small kindergarten school out by the Pressa dam that I have been paying their monthly Internet bill for the last two years so the children have access to wifi for their school studies and the amazing Principal of the school, Marie, wrote me and invited me out to the school because the children wanted to thank me…</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So after I picked up the donated items I went and picked up my visiting friends Paula, a retired kindergarten teacher and Jerry and we all drove out to the school.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The children were all sat at their desks with huge smiles and sparkly eyes and when we walked in they all began to sing in English a thank you song…let me tell you it was tear jerking, humbling and an experience I shall not forget!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We then handed out the very recently donated Christmas items and placed them on every desk the kids were thrilled!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We said our goodbyes and the children know we are going out to the school again on January 3 rd to deliver the Three Kings gifts!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">What a blessed day!!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There is still time to donate to either the food hamper program or the Three Kings Toy drive just contact me at</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">mexicokid77@yahoo.com</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I also have a Pay pal account at that email address </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thanks stay safe and healthy….Les Pearson</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-693557268053335852022-12-07T19:54:00.002-08:002022-12-07T19:54:30.302-08:00Wednesday 7 th December 2022…. Knee really good!!!<p> What a difference 24 hours can make my knee feels so much better this morning and the swelling is going down…I have rested most of the day and enjoyed catching up on some paper work for three kings and some other planning….I did move around a lot and then sat and iced the knee and I am still going to stay away from hiking, tennis and training till Monday!!</p><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Just a simple pleasure this afternoon…I went down to a small natural store in a Mexican neighborhood to buy some laundry soap and where I parked the scooter this man and his dog were busking….he was playing the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Prayer, which is one of my favorite tunes and he was very talented and I loved the pose of his dog..there was a bench close by and I passed a lovely ten minutes listening to him…..</span><span class="s2">🎼🎻</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-14826580802688522492022-12-06T20:52:00.007-08:002022-12-06T20:52:56.144-08:00Tuesday 6 th december 2022…a little setback!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">I had a little medical set back which started on Sunday and it is with my knee which incidentally it is two years ago I had my surgery…..</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I am pretty sure all the sitting and walking I did in Mexico City especially the sitting caused my knee to flare up……</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Monday morning I knew I was in trouble and my knee was starting to flare up I cancelled my yoga class and called my surgeon and made an appointment to see him this afternoon….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I also cancelled my tennis this morning as my knee had really got swollen and it kept locking on me….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I went to his office and was taken in right away he remembered me and smiled when he saw the sight of my knee…..he explained what he was doing and he drained a lot of fluid from my knee and then gave me a steroid shot….told me to ice for the next two <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>days and to take it easy for the rest of the week and if there was no improvement to come back and see him on Saturday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So the cost for my visit was 1200 pesos…..I know for sure in Canada, England and the States there would be no way where I could call a surgeon one day have an appointment the next day get treated</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> and changed what I was charged!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So I have cancelled all my tennis, walking Frida, hiking, training until Sunday which will give me a nice break and a chance to catch up on lots of things but I also shall still go on short walks..</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQ0EbwZkN1PbiZ5vSLefJiKYJOHIvew-wIETXGvx_NNCJJjCGWjAqStgckSgdkGMLQMncyM8B6UtUK63vyqomeojaSid2oGemzwhwqbiRgGcX0ORSbXU7FFo3weuJ0r7MRvmpetV2oaCI1wp_Il0Js1_mFDreaMqS9DrimisfYqR1G7aYQ9k/s1494/BF2618CC-781F-4471-8CFC-391EEC2A681B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="949" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQ0EbwZkN1PbiZ5vSLefJiKYJOHIvew-wIETXGvx_NNCJJjCGWjAqStgckSgdkGMLQMncyM8B6UtUK63vyqomeojaSid2oGemzwhwqbiRgGcX0ORSbXU7FFo3weuJ0r7MRvmpetV2oaCI1wp_Il0Js1_mFDreaMqS9DrimisfYqR1G7aYQ9k/s320/BF2618CC-781F-4471-8CFC-391EEC2A681B.jpeg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-86308320744623861502022-12-05T20:37:00.004-08:002022-12-05T20:37:50.135-08:00Monday 5 th December 2022…a lovely thing to do!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">El Aguinaldo, the Christmas bonus, is a benefit to which workers are entitled to receive annually, a benefit provided as support from the employer to the worker for holiday expenses we all experience in December. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There are different versions of the origin of the word </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">aguinaldo</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">. The two most common are from “eguinad,” the term which the Celts called the end-of-the-year gift, but the word is also considered to be derived from the Latin expression “noc in anno,” which means “in this year.” Although there are also many ancient cultures where gifts were given due to the belief that the best omens to start the year were attracted with generous gifts.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In Mexico, “the bonus” was born in 1970 with the passage of the Federal Labor Law. In Article 87 as it mentions, “Workers will have the right to an annual bonus that must be paid before December 20 equivalent to fifteen days of salary, at least.” </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Even workers who have not worked the full year are entitled to receive the amount proportional to what they worked. Even if they only work half days, the formula contemplates each day worked as a full day of labor.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The formula to calculate the correct amount for the bonus is as follows: </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Divide the bonus days to which the employee is entitled (15) by the days of the year (365). </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Multiply the result by the employee’s days worked during the calendar year. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Multiply this result by the worker’s daily salary. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The result is the Christmas bonus. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Example: José, a gardener, worked 200 days in 2020 and has a daily salary of 300 pesos. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">José’s employer, Mr. Santiago, wants to calculate his bonus, so he performs the following calculation: </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">15 vacation days divided by 365 calendar days equals 0.04109 units.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">0.04109 units multiplied by 200 days equals 8.218 units.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8.218 units multiplied by 300 pesos equals 2,465.40.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Therefore, Mr. Santiago will give José the amount of 2,465.40 pesos as a bonus. Many people have asked if this increases by the number of years an employee has worked. The answer is that in a labor relationship without a contract stipulation for additional days, 15 days complies with the law.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">However, while you are not allowed to give less, it is fine if you choose to give more.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Lilly will get hers next Monday!!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-14804591760929753092022-12-04T20:29:00.000-08:002022-12-04T20:29:01.736-08:00Sunday 4 th December 2022…World cup and a celebration!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">A good day for England at the World Cup!!!!</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6MJ5zmoACHUxxyGrRiGDdlZZIrgj4Aw3K38JoOR4OZV6qGN5WEUDUY5BbNvm5dQ9C-p8qzz166Jp9GixTUnlCFD15sskbIU9tuT5cvzvqbAaDtk98rsSDmhJdrE406fBLmM0yvgsqIX14E66xHF5i_FtXoG9d-3azevKxL97Tla0I2xffkA/s1444/6900494C-864B-4F3F-8626-08EBB266F915.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="1444" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6MJ5zmoACHUxxyGrRiGDdlZZIrgj4Aw3K38JoOR4OZV6qGN5WEUDUY5BbNvm5dQ9C-p8qzz166Jp9GixTUnlCFD15sskbIU9tuT5cvzvqbAaDtk98rsSDmhJdrE406fBLmM0yvgsqIX14E66xHF5i_FtXoG9d-3azevKxL97Tla0I2xffkA/s320/6900494C-864B-4F3F-8626-08EBB266F915.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This afternoon I picked up Vane my lovely University student who I tutor every week in English….it is her birthday on Tuesday and I wanted my friends Paula and Jerry to meet her so I took her out to their Rv park and I had a surprise birthday cake made for her…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKWIZkWlLxUWAvOdrbGNTI939aN0rcRd--ZVUg-y5EsKpnIGZZYKL_yr820fJTlA1cRBHzKcavYUtJNo_gjDu2MsC_I5ZQGJwXMMrBZvTcc8z-9w-BDbR-eobCf1AI9LswTnHF90nQo0tjWUBYdaOmt-KsgnqcBQgas2UEXMz16ruaBAbsNA/s3219/D0B489CD-4A9C-4B79-8470-6FA3DE8DF37C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2720" data-original-width="3022" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkpNBQ30gQ30jbjFKG6FhfhuqIZhLAngtxgiAcRuZXAH0dBYIVxVsr7NOdXo3B1IZzLlDmGcpEAQ1Qke0jX-V3VOjuLrvnvpNwtKJvS7cP31tN6FSPbhUQf5P2TLjSuWsYWK4-7mKpDddfBuFpNvkvUv5VdHt-XZ3MfM5lYV--hlO9u9_QZg/s320/4B42348D-6FE0-4957-8482-C6E7F03BCF99.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You may wonder why keys on her cake, well she loves to collect key chains from everywhere she goes and where ever I go I always bring her back a key chain, Paula and Jerry knew this and they brought her a key chain from Nova Scotia!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We had a lovely visit and I am very proud of her she is finishing her third year at University and her degree will be in mechanical engineering!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Saw these lovely animals on my walk this afternoon…..</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There is a couple of cable car routes going to homes in the hills in the city… ingenious</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91Qg2942d2VjWekplt0_ex-hOQlxaFAYWfu6gOHFktudk5cxbGDVcu7EFG-ysImGzJd8_tqTJsIisNASVBzelVLWkh1bGY123vNQnaFUEaOSiMgS0sNfJacIXE_RNU9qexBjELVz5NpTutDnKBCgRUbnF6JwqSDtJneSRGDrFSM_yq8EZSC0/s4032/43F09985-7E02-41D4-B3F1-D8D65A7FDC50.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91Qg2942d2VjWekplt0_ex-hOQlxaFAYWfu6gOHFktudk5cxbGDVcu7EFG-ysImGzJd8_tqTJsIisNASVBzelVLWkh1bGY123vNQnaFUEaOSiMgS0sNfJacIXE_RNU9qexBjELVz5NpTutDnKBCgRUbnF6JwqSDtJneSRGDrFSM_yq8EZSC0/s320/43F09985-7E02-41D4-B3F1-D8D65A7FDC50.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We think they announced an accident and a delay…..there certainly was a delay of over 90 minutes but as we were allowed through no sign of any accident but there was road construction</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEVwlsF_vOKycZuYwvq2uu4yzqg7OOC7gIkie7xbWaPoOHOvN8gcvSOegAObqfpPyb4KiGzlz1VszlcKFx9lI7o9GqYwv1Jrbl1pAUKjF7CLX_A4ep6DMzDYjZotjJqW0PfiMLba9XvZoFr1FczCbukRVg2WgG3p5TMZBgJ77NZUgdznkbwA/s4025/DB21975F-1992-46C7-A028-997E9F5744E4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2442" data-original-width="4025" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEVwlsF_vOKycZuYwvq2uu4yzqg7OOC7gIkie7xbWaPoOHOvN8gcvSOegAObqfpPyb4KiGzlz1VszlcKFx9lI7o9GqYwv1Jrbl1pAUKjF7CLX_A4ep6DMzDYjZotjJqW0PfiMLba9XvZoFr1FczCbukRVg2WgG3p5TMZBgJ77NZUgdznkbwA/s320/DB21975F-1992-46C7-A028-997E9F5744E4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I did manage to catch Teri and Mike napping and of course a little later they got their revenge…..I do not think anyone has taken a side view photo of me no wonder I love elephants so much I have such big ears!!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV48710oJFqDcFwzWtrKZkg44Mk2spATLACJj4B6cSRh-nnhuEdbIGec3ekwTULfSQfZNuk-YJi7L7xrrp8c2x-eSnpjFcDPkOKPXPWnPPzddVPH3Q_bBD07iSBSeqyTTjrZwISeL7FJ8JbGBHHbwW3B_kR0zdaTivoWCNvOPnqvmRLZAa32I/s694/9525D3CE-A198-45C6-AA3D-B768CD186B07.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="686" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV48710oJFqDcFwzWtrKZkg44Mk2spATLACJj4B6cSRh-nnhuEdbIGec3ekwTULfSQfZNuk-YJi7L7xrrp8c2x-eSnpjFcDPkOKPXPWnPPzddVPH3Q_bBD07iSBSeqyTTjrZwISeL7FJ8JbGBHHbwW3B_kR0zdaTivoWCNvOPnqvmRLZAa32I/s320/9525D3CE-A198-45C6-AA3D-B768CD186B07.jpeg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So we arrived safely back in SMA two hours late but it was no problem..always nice to go away and always nice to return home to my lovely casita..!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thanks Teri and Mike for babysitting and showing me around!!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I have a friend, a mother of two young girls, trying to make some money for the holidays for her girls and sick husband.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you intend to buy Noche Buena or Poinsettias please consider contacting Mary, she does not speak English, at 415 103 7528 she lives on San Juan de Dios # 18 in the colonia La Parroquia, which I know is a way out of town but I am happy to take your order and pick up and deliver the plants to you.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She has a really nice selection of color and sizes at good prices….red and white at 120 and 65 peso</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Les Pearson </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">mexicokid77@yahoo.com</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-75824217714379623732022-12-02T18:25:00.004-08:002022-12-02T18:25:58.066-08:00Friday 2 December 2022…a mini getaway!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">Well it has been an amazing and happy two days….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yesterday morning my good friends Teri and Mike and my tennis buddy Gregg left SMA at 8.30 am on the bus heading out to Mexico City!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The main reason of the trip was to watch the tennis match…..</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The bus was first class and smooth and Mike guided us through three stops of the Mexico City subway </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYJ_DJaXIEzan9AhzjiJ0ylf3KAy1tnpmvK05ZUw6imkqr5TON_Qm8a8AmTvpmLCZX-JH5EX8FXn2w5FOhkAQ6zHX1u8WgaVzN9NliD2O2O5FQUDd01-muwuqbAzyx42ybytcsPEdZpCUA4r0bjdQnYfsYKRipSdmJNNoSeuDZpDlDluNawE/s3427/3B7CC23C-EFB5-4646-ABB9-A794E840C948.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Rafael Nadal entered the court to a huge round of applause from a jam-packed crowd at the brightly-lit Plaza de Toros Mexico for the final match of his South American exhibition tour with Casper Ruud. The ATP World Nos. 2 and 3 ended a successful tour of South America on Thursday, where they thrilled spectators across six different venues.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Spectators inside the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City lined up to capture photos and videos of the moment Nadal entered the venue, loudly cheering for him. The Spaniard beat Ruud 7-6, 6-4 in the last match of the tour.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The Spanish great <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-when-i-m-mexico-i-feel-like-foreigner-rafael-nadal-receiving-warm-welcome-mexican-fans"><span class="s3">spoke about</span></a> the huge reception he received in Mexico, calling it a "spectacular" feeling. He went on to express his admiration for Mexico and the Mexicans, stating that he has always had memorable experiences during his past visits to Mexico. The <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/player/rafael-nadal"><span class="s3">36-year-old Spaniard</span></a> won the ATP Acapulco Open in Mexico earlier this year, the last of his winning streak of three consecutive titles at the start of the season.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedItalicBody; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The reception of the people I feel is spectacular," Nadal said in a press conference after Thursday's matc</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">h.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Rafael Nadal and <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/player/casper-ruud"><span class="s3">Casper Ruud</span></a> started their Latin American tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they were also joined by former WTA stars Gabriela Sabatini and Gisela Dulko for a mixed doubles match. The touring duo then played in Santiago, Chile, before moving to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The next two venues on the schedule were Quito, Ecuador, and Bogota, Colombia, earlier this week, before the finale in Mexico City on Thursday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The Spaniard and the Norwegian faced each other five times throughout the tour, with the 22-time Grand Slam champion winning four of those matches. Ruud's only win came in Quito, as he pipped his idol 6-4, 6-4. The two players will now enjoy some time off from tennis before kicking off their respective 2023 seasons in Australia in January.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We walked home and arrived back at the hotel around 12.30 am tired but happy.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Today we did a short walking tour with Gregg before he left to come back to SMA and Teri and Mike took me on a walking tour of some of the sights in the city…</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Went next door for a great pizza and now resting in my lovely room and we leave Tomorrow morning on the bus back home….a fabulous three days thanks so much for putting up with me Teri, Mike and Gregg!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-11886339651578947232022-11-30T19:02:00.004-08:002022-11-30T19:02:54.600-08:00Wednesday 30 th November 2022…..agony of defeat!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">Mexico defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 but agonisingly went out of the World Cup on goal difference on a night of incredible drama in Doha.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">With Argentina beating Poland 2-0 in Group C at Stadium 974 and Mexico leading by the same scoreline at Lusail Stadium in the 94th minute, Gerardo Martino's side needed one more goal to prevent them from going out according to Fifa's fair play rule.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But Salem Al Dawsari's injury-time consolation goal for Saudi Arabia sent the distraught Mexicans home anyway, leaving the Polish players to celebrate across the city.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After a stop-start first half with little rhythm to it, the match burst into life two minutes after the break as Henry Martin reacted quickest to finish Cesar Montes' flick on.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mexico fans had barely calmed their celebrations before Luis Chavez curled a glorious 30-yard free-kick into the top corner to send their supporters into pandemonium.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">They thought they had another but Hirving Lozano's low strike was chalked off for offside and Martin should have had a second but volleyed over from 12 yards out.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It was all Mexico as they pushed for further goals. Chavez nearly struck another stunning free-kick but Mohammed Al Owais palmed it out, then Orbelín Pineda curled narrowly wide.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mexico thought they had sealed progression when Uriel Antuna stroked in late on, but that too was flagged for offside and they went out in the most excruciating manner.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9m4Iu_UjGNQv3UdYsqiClDjDOQONqdemH_6o8HbL_OMPvXfZIfPw3KEz2MB11DctWBC-9s0xH0G_1-mzEkeARnsK084JvG4BMxJtE5rDxy3rizp_WBKzRy6Ww72EYiXIeR9jybNlq4MbivlS3mVsH5R7jvxs_TKEREwkTBCeCpyniwuAKo40/s1256/E161B3D5-4834-40EF-9BA6-47F902B074C1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The first half was one to forget, the drama in the second will live long in the memory.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It was absolute chaos before the game, with thousands of Saudi fans making the trip across the border for a game in which victory would have secured a place in the knockout stage.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But they never really managed to put Mexico under pressure and ultimately both sides went out of the competition.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At one stage, Mexico were set to be knocked out because they had collected more yellow cards (seven) than Poland (five), with the two teams level on points and goal difference.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">While Al Dawsari's late goal changed little, Mexico fans were still left dejected at full-time, with some staying long after the final whistle with their head in their hands.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Martin's opener from close range and Chavez's peach of a free-kick gave them hope, but two disallowed goals crushed any optimism of advancing out of the group.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The result ends a sequence of progression to the round of 16, having done so at the previous eight World Cups, a run stretching back to 1978.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">For Saudi Arabia, the tournament ends in disappointment by finishing bottom of the group despite an opening game victory over Argentina that will go down as one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mohamed Kanno had his chances, shanking wide from the angle and curling a free-kick narrowly over, while Ali Al Hassan almost headed in on the stroke of half-time.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The stadium was filled mostly with raucous Saudi supporters and they went home with one final cheer as Al Dawsari coolly converted late on.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-77968317443011321782022-11-29T18:55:00.001-08:002022-11-29T18:55:31.235-08:00Tuesday 29th November 2022….give thanks!!<p> </p><p>Today is national give thanks day!!!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhzzVVIuIPM1VEUlTuMWTvkDGWKrTS2tN_ykXNvWZQGW_HXs6sfblF11rIh0bIbLyHxeTDHD4FVm-Q6v8pgvShpb36gizN9ubeORz7TfP7ahFtvtdD7XfPWSrLQUtqaQbBrzBjgHFC8BTKety9Q7kYr0cD6vTDaOic8E9H3rLcwdEMKMnBVs/s834/3B0FC958-0A83-4E9A-8509-4B0C07184A77.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="834" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhzzVVIuIPM1VEUlTuMWTvkDGWKrTS2tN_ykXNvWZQGW_HXs6sfblF11rIh0bIbLyHxeTDHD4FVm-Q6v8pgvShpb36gizN9ubeORz7TfP7ahFtvtdD7XfPWSrLQUtqaQbBrzBjgHFC8BTKety9Q7kYr0cD6vTDaOic8E9H3rLcwdEMKMnBVs/s320/3B0FC958-0A83-4E9A-8509-4B0C07184A77.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I had a wonderful two hours on the tennis courts and then came home and watched England advance to the next stage of the a World Cup….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I like this article..</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The 'psychic' animals predicting who will win the World Cup</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">LONDON -- No FIFA World Cup would be complete without "psychic" animals predicting the winners, and Qatar 2022 has been no exception.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">From "clairvoyant" camels to "mystic" elephants and "cryptic" rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">It all started with Paul, the "psychic" octopus. The eight-tentacled icon put TV pundits to shame with an incredible string of correct World Cup winner predictions from his glass tank at the Aquarium Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. The tentacled tipster had an incredible success rate: he correctly predicted eight world cup matches at South Africa's tournament in 2010, including Spain beating the Netherlands in the World Cup final.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/christian-pulisic-describes-means-american-represent-usa-world/story?id=93708589"></a></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/christian-pulisic-describes-means-american-represent-usa-world/story?id=93708589"></a></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">All did not end well for Paul’s successor, <a href="https://soranews24.com/2018/06/30/japans-world-cup-match-predicting-octopus-gutted-after-loss-to-poland-literally/"><span class="s4">Rubio the octopus</span></a>, who became an icon in Japan for his 100% success rate in predicting group stage matches, including Japan’s win against Columbia in the 2018 World Cup held in Russia. Rubio did not get the chance to make his prediction for the Round-of-16 after he was chopped up and turned into seafood, according to <a href="https://soranews24.com/2018/06/30/japans-world-cup-match-predicting-octopus-gutted-after-loss-to-poland-literally/"><span class="s4">one local news outlet</span></a>.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><img alt="panda-ht-ml-221125_1669396274268_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5fd8ae00-1b2d-43af-ac59-f30a65fde823" /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Qatari Pandas choose England to win the World Cup game on Nov. 25, 2022.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Taiyo the otter had good news for Japanese fans at this year’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar, correctly predicting <a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/11/b805a08d9c9c-otter-praised-for-predicting-japans-shock-world-cup-win-vs-germany.html"><span class="s4">Japan’s group stage win over Germany on Wednesday</span></a>. From his home at the Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa in Japan, the Taiyo was given three buckets to choose from -- Japan (blue), draw (yellow) and Germany (Red) -- and did not hesitate in picking up his tiny football and placing his bets on Japan. He was widely praised online for his exploits.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/qatar-soccer-world-cup-controversial/story?id=93283278">MORE: Why the Qatar soccer World Cup is so controversial</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/qatar-soccer-world-cup-controversial/story?id=93283278"></a></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">And let’s not forget another iconic star -- Marcus, the "mystic" pig. In the 2018 World Cup, "Mystic Marcus" predicted a World Cup victory for England in the <a href="https://twitter.com/thismorning/status/1016988992980639744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1016988992980639744%7Ctwgr%5E43ffdc353e53f62797f8b1c3c2ec4dc33dddfb47%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liverpoolecho.co.uk%2Fnews%2Ftv%2Fmarcus-mystic-pig-predicts-another-14894054"><span class="s4">after selecting apples with the England flag on British morning television</span></a>. However, Mystic Marcus’ fortune-telling record was shattered when England were knocked out in the semi-finals.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4b1zIn42HA&feature=youtu.be">Nelly the elephant</a></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"> from Serengeti Park in Hodengagen, Germany, also meant business when she had a streak of 30 out of 33 matches correct for her predictions in the 2006 World Cup, the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 Euros, according to <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/german-elephant-plays-soccer-predicts-world-cup-results/372366/"><span class="s4">The Atlantic</span></a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Camilla the "mystic" camel from Melton Mowbray in England did have good news for England, however. She correctly predicted the Three Lion’s group-stage win over Iran at the Qatar World Cup. Her owners<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20483506/psychic-camel-camilla-world-cup-england-win/"><span class="s4"> told the Sun newspaper</span></a> in the U.K. that their clairvoyant camel is “never wrong."</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Walked Frida in centro this afternoon and the decorations are going up….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJTpDITXfZ03U9ABc_NkdUvOWYXo2jGyHQG5QahpY-an8KoopIi0PkY3Fwr3SITvhghRNg1j4ptqZ9Ljn9TJtM8oGEIWProvpw6SDFV50HmC0FST3NPg8p3Zd5CdlSwJy3iug25vxF96ob2LGd3XWTZA8-qV_BlqRCtc1bJqG7mHcgFKMDxmY/s320/D0F872E5-9345-44B3-BB78-A8EDE4F6FF23.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">I had a lovely friend donate to me many wonderful books in both English and Spanish….I took them to Vanessa’s class last week and these are the photos she sent…..love the smiles on the kids faces!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Yashi Kochi!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-73899302127111282172022-11-28T19:57:00.003-08:002022-11-28T19:57:29.919-08:00Monday 28 th November 2022…Kleenex!!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">From the internet you may require Kleenex!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Pondering the peas, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Hello Barry, how are you today?’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘H’lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus’ admirin’ them peas. They sure look good.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘They are good, Barry. How’s your Ma?’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Fine.. Gittin’ stronger alla’ time.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Good. Anything I can help you with?’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘No, Sir. Jus’ admirin’ them peas.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Would you like to take some home?’ asked Mr. Miller.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘No, Sir. Got nuthin’ to pay for ’em with.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘All I got’s my prize marble here.’ ‘Is that right?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Let me see it’ said Miller.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Here ’tis.. She’s a dandy.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘I can see that. Hmmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?’ the store owner asked.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Not zackley but almost.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble’. Mr. Miller told the boy.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">With a smile she said, ‘There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn’t like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado, but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts…all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband’s casket.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband’s bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim ‘traded’ them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size….they came to pay their debt.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">‘We’ve never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,’ she confided, ‘but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho..’</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. - Helen Walton</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTd9ZYtCc0-cr7TyWtKwwM67gUsdL-jwFn5IXOCSUJhmW0zxmJxdroetqChlsgBh3KxLfXP3SSCjTGi4YHRPtrnj5stetOuuvhk64G41My9F5ceA5i5Qjki8dQcjLYBPtEckHjPcgUakw9DwOKNXQp3ARBW9VNF4VRZaIK6ysjivlZ976Rrns/s998/5964E5DA-A549-431C-86B2-72C6A30CE444.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34356377.post-19354498615601297152022-11-27T20:05:00.003-08:002022-11-27T20:05:32.354-08:00Sunday 27 th November 2022….a bit of this and a bit of that!!!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">Well this is a mishmash of stuff……That is Daniela with Frida she works at Paparika restaurant……</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aIWubT6kK6GDJCj-xZeRGaEo4I0PFey-hEDr1Am4aMOGaDPlEikbWQLaSgJBaCBTZsOdW-RC8_XWJlBLQrddf_jqB0RpNHAOfo5CcAm1_yjfh20JC_Xm-d8VoCkPk_w7OWY6nMj3lXSyY4GIqee0_0P0UpAnZcNKrrr37hdQuxDPpCJ5wb4/s1878/9FE6B42F-A3E6-492B-8F13-99E4395E22F3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1878" data-original-width="1205" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aIWubT6kK6GDJCj-xZeRGaEo4I0PFey-hEDr1Am4aMOGaDPlEikbWQLaSgJBaCBTZsOdW-RC8_XWJlBLQrddf_jqB0RpNHAOfo5CcAm1_yjfh20JC_Xm-d8VoCkPk_w7OWY6nMj3lXSyY4GIqee0_0P0UpAnZcNKrrr37hdQuxDPpCJ5wb4/s320/9FE6B42F-A3E6-492B-8F13-99E4395E22F3.jpeg" width="205" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;">.Paola and Dani are the two girls I sponsored for years from Casa Hogar…I met them when they were seven years old……both have had a difficult time of growing up and I have lost touch with Paola but Daniela is doing really well and I am very proud of the young, caring and wonderful young lady she has turned into!!!.. The photos of them growing up and you will notice the one in the show shoe my friend Jerry is there..he is the one also in the thanksgiving dinner last night with his adorable wife Paula!!</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhrOscGvTJDmFXkgGxSwBarYRAB75yym3V_ixU0oq_a9Pv6XpX8O1d3oAwkpEV6j_ykT07g0CDA2B4eN7LyxivyjtvsS1WWyrnKUNKfKKwfT6rrCXkin-Mfb0pS07kwZvfQRMoiAUnX23CEmAVpkr29iOHzqvpGUS-EwhEm3g2Zt0bOX8SJM0/s854/5BA855CB-8277-4C2D-B506-6F505091D508.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="854" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhrOscGvTJDmFXkgGxSwBarYRAB75yym3V_ixU0oq_a9Pv6XpX8O1d3oAwkpEV6j_ykT07g0CDA2B4eN7LyxivyjtvsS1WWyrnKUNKfKKwfT6rrCXkin-Mfb0pS07kwZvfQRMoiAUnX23CEmAVpkr29iOHzqvpGUS-EwhEm3g2Zt0bOX8SJM0/s320/5BA855CB-8277-4C2D-B506-6F505091D508.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Sadly Canada have a been eliminated even though I have more game to play!!<p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRh-I2giE6ebn97Q80PqrNquckN73mSEaBrmCbBzpgcSqmXeADYFu0k43HbtJMEwpGLByJ_3QAWsiB6w23YBzQgMDrUaUe0-y_hiSJMndGOs3498pomam69wMnBb8q8lgLlNG30fZNto8W94QA5s4mX_Q2bNWxGCAQhBOpXC0cH3w5YwD0ro/s436/1CA8E12E-6B0E-46E7-AF29-EC3F9EBE53CE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="436" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRh-I2giE6ebn97Q80PqrNquckN73mSEaBrmCbBzpgcSqmXeADYFu0k43HbtJMEwpGLByJ_3QAWsiB6w23YBzQgMDrUaUe0-y_hiSJMndGOs3498pomam69wMnBb8q8lgLlNG30fZNto8W94QA5s4mX_Q2bNWxGCAQhBOpXC0cH3w5YwD0ro/s320/1CA8E12E-6B0E-46E7-AF29-EC3F9EBE53CE.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Those three funny people at the beach are my Auntie Rita, who passed away four years ago and my Uncle Bram who will be 96 next month….</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeypbmpMHjVIwO2ZZKNBG9aR3vI8WOHb-E4WUij680XskAYizxgFJpm2NLTraOre9fF6ECbuKJPWJ8TRuFdtCofKocUYFhDc2juU5P3Fmnnki71kMYQQMY3O7GL7glEV4vLCkReFYNWFJcuvUwRhe37Ac4o8vTp_hAh6hJe0jf8fU1rt8Jq1I/s843/C7F56263-B20B-4CC1-A6DE-DEB3AB79466F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="843" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeypbmpMHjVIwO2ZZKNBG9aR3vI8WOHb-E4WUij680XskAYizxgFJpm2NLTraOre9fF6ECbuKJPWJ8TRuFdtCofKocUYFhDc2juU5P3Fmnnki71kMYQQMY3O7GL7glEV4vLCkReFYNWFJcuvUwRhe37Ac4o8vTp_hAh6hJe0jf8fU1rt8Jq1I/s320/C7F56263-B20B-4CC1-A6DE-DEB3AB79466F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The photo with Janet and Malc and Bram with his daughter Jill was taken three days ago he is an amazing man!!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay safe and healthy!!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yashi Kochi!!</span></p>mexicokidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365927090674510276noreply@blogger.com0