canada 2.0

here´s one person´s response to the election the other night. i quite like it.

yesterday jane and i went to las acacias, an area of town in which we´ll be working. the place is a big maze of condominiums although they´re really more like block housing units scattered across a large, mostly arid field alongside a busy throughway. there´s a lot of garbage around and few places to put it, a few areas where people have burned garbage, and a few unkept garden-like areas. the place is teeming with potential and a coat of paint (there are lots of concrete retaining walls) and a little clean-up would do wonders. it´s so dry here now so we´re not sure of potential planing options but i´m sure something tropical would do well. the soil is parched and tan in colour - it doesn´t look like it would be very productive.

here´s a site about las acacias, the pics look quite different from what we saw and are obviously taken from a different area.

after our tour of the area we decided to take in a movie at the supercines in mall san marino. we checked out collateral with tom cruise. a good flick, a little depressing at times but interesting. i´d like to know if what we saw is the same as the north american film cause the picture looked just a little too close up, as if it was blown up to fit the widescreen but was actually a square picture. anyway the theatre was wonderful, just like the odeon at home, only we had to fork over about 3 bucks canadian for the entertainment (this is the mall with the tommy hilfiger and pony and those types of stores... where a pair of jeans costs over 60 bucks american).