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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .
Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.ivan
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Monday, November 11, 2013
You guys all know Don- right? He plays with the Zipolite Beach Billies. This is his book that he wrote. Check out his site for more info.
http://donsbumpyroad.blogspot.
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I am sitting at SeaTac International Airport waiting for Flight 318 to San Francisco ... then on to Lima Peru, on to Iquitos on the Amazon River. I will arrive Iquitos 3pm Tueseday. No internet in the rain forest. I will be back in Lima on Saturday ... if I survive :) I am very excited! Peace. Paz. ivan
Hello friends:
I am sitting at SeaTac International Airport waiting for Flight 318 to San Francisco ... then on to Lima Peru, on to Iquitos on the Amazon River. I will arrive Iquitos 3pm Tueseday. No internet in the rain forest. I will be back in Lima on Saturday ... if I survive :) I am very excited! Peace. Paz. ivan
I have set up this blogspot if you would like to follow my adventure here:
http://ivaninperu.blogspot.com/
Airport is quiet.
I am sitting at SeaTac International Airport waiting for Flight 318 to San Francisco ... then on to Lima Peru, on to Iquitos on the Amazon River. I will arrive Iquitos 3pm Tueseday. No internet in the rain forest. I will be back in Lima on Saturday ... if I survive :) I am very excited! Peace. Paz. ivan
I have set up this blogspot if you would like to follow my adventure here:
http://ivaninperu.blogspot.com/
Airport is quiet.
Left Hilton in Renton, WA at 11:30. Made it to SeaTac, and through TSA to the in less than 55 minutes. Amazing! Very quiet midday Monday.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Lost in time in laid-back Zipolite - Yahoo!7 - Totaltravel Backpackers sleep soundly in beach hammocks in Mexican seaside town Zipolite, with an easygoing, hippie vibe many visitors find difficult to leave. https://au.totaltravel.yahoo.com/.../lost-in-time-in-laid-back-zi...
Lost in time in laid-back Zipolite - Yahoo!7 - Totaltravel
Backpackers sleep soundly in beach hammocks in Mexican seaside town Zipolite, with an easygoing, hippie vibe many visitors find difficult to leave.
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Friday, November 8, 2013
Top Ten Mexican Slang MAY 20 Posted by TC
Top Ten Mexican Slang
Posted by TC
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Now for some Mexican Slang…
Top Ten Mexican Slang
The order of this list has absolutely no meaning other than which words and phrases I think are the most interesting, amusing, common, or unique. Please disagree with me, correct my spelling, or remind me of what I’ve left out.
WARNING: if you are a FRESA (stuck-up person) you might be offended by the use of some very vulgar language, but if you are a NACO (low-class, person with bad taste) you will overuse most of the words on this list.
WARNING: if you are a FRESA (stuck-up person) you might be offended by the use of some very vulgar language, but if you are a NACO (low-class, person with bad taste) you will overuse most of the words on this list.
10. You may have noticed NO HAY BRONCA is the name of my blog. It means “no problem.”
9. ¡A HUEVO! (vulgar) – Do you know what huevo means? It means egg, but HUEVOS are balls. There are many ways to use the word. When my Spanish was still at a pretty basic level I had a student who said HUEVOS DIAS to me – not a very nice thing to say. ¡A HUEVO! means “of course!” – a very useful expression. Another variation is TENGO HUEVA, which means you are feeling lazy.
8. CHELA / CAGUAMA – CHELA means beer, and CAGUAMAS are the big returnable 40 ounce bottles, undoubtedly your best value on the street.
7. ¡ORALE! – Even after over a year in Mexico I still don’t think I can properly describe this word. It can be used for encouragement, like “go for it!” or “right on!” Or it can be use like “let’s do it!” or “let´s go!” It seems to be a second cousin of HIJOLE, which is like ¨wow¨ or “my goodness!”
6. ¿QUE ONDA? – Along with ¿QUE PASO?, ¿QUE TAL?, and the vulgar ¿QUE PEDO?, this is yet another way to say “what’s up?” ONDA literally means waves or, in this case, vibes.
5. PEDO (vulgar) – This word is as versatile as the tortilla, but, unlike the tortilla, very rarely appropriate. As a noun it usually means problem, or more literally, fart. NO HAY PEDO is a substitute for NO HAY BRONCA, no problem. CUAL ES TU PINCHE PEDO means “what’s your fucking problem?” As an adjective it means drunk. ESTOY BIEN PEDO, WEY. “I’m fucking drunk.” A drunken party or a binge is UNA PEDA. You can make great phrases with it too, such as the aforementioned ¿QUE PEDO?
4. CHIDO means cool. If you don’t hear this word 100 times a day, you aren’t off the tourist track yet. On a similar note, PADRE (father) means good or cool while MADRE (mother) usually means bad. No, it doesn’t make sense.
3. ¡NO MANCHES! – The literal meaning is ridiculous, but this is used like “no way!” or “come on!” Look out for ¡NO MAMES!, the vulgar equivalent.
2. CHINGAR (vulgar) – Much like English’s beloved f-word, CHINGAR has a wide range of uses – from describing something positively – CHINGON – to negatively – CHINGADA. Or, if there is a lot of something, traffic for example, you can say HAY UN CHINGO DE TRAFICO. It is also used to express the foulest, rudest, and most aggressive sentiments. This is a truly Mexican word, and to learn the origins and deep thoughts behind it check out The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz. For more everyday uses, do a quick Google search.
1 WEY / GUEY – I don’t really know how to spell it. WEY isn’t as famous as ORALE or versatile as CHINGAR, and it may not even be as common as CHIDO. You might even spend a month here without hearing it. But, once in the proper circles you will hear WEY used as every other word, how teenage American girls use ”like.”
“¡Simon wey, mira wey, chupamos veinte caguamas wey, no mames wey, estabamos bien pedos wey!”
WEY means “dude,” and if you haven’t heard something like the above already, I truly hope that when you do you will recall this example and laugh. SIMON in this case is a slang substitute for “si,” or yes.
HONORABLE MENTION(S): You can add “-on” or “-ona” to any body part to describe someone who has a prominent one. For example:
NARIZ – nose — NARIZON – guy with a big nose
CEJAS – eybrows — CEJON – guy with bushy eyebrows
FRENTE – foreheard – FRENTONA – girl with a big forehead
CULO – ass — CULONA – girl with a big ass, often complimentary (vulgar)
Also, you can do this with professions. “ero” or “era” makes a job title.
OBRA – work — OBRERO – worker
PALOMITA – popcorn — PALOMERO – popcorn seller
CULO – ass — CULERO – “ass seller,” but it is really used the way we use “asshole.”
Top Twenty Mexican Slang (Top Ten Mexican Slang Part 2)
Top Twenty Mexican Slang (Top Ten Mexican Slang Part 2)
Posted by TC
The most popular post on this blog is Top Ten Mexican Slang. But for sure ten words don´t even scratch the surface of slang here in Mexico.
I hear these words every day. Unlike the original Top Ten Mexican Slang, in this post every word has a PG rating. Maybe PG-13.
Pinche
Pinche could have been in the original top ten. It translates to many words in English, damnfor example, but only when used to describe something.
“¡Pinche coche!” – damn car
“Pinche Juan” – goddamn Juan
Mande
Mande is the Mexican way to ask what or excuse me, when you don’t understand what someone said. It can also be used like tell me.
Neta
Neta can be used in several ways, but often like really? or for real?
“Estoy pedo, pero ya me tengo que ir a la chamba.”
“¿Neta?”
Ahorita
Ahora means now. The “-ita” or “-ito” (female or male) stem is a diminutive, used to show that something is small or cute. So literally ahorita means little now.
Mexicans might tell you that ahorita means right now, but really it means soon or eventually. If you ask a Mexican to do something and they reply with ahorita, then it could happen in five minutes, five hours, or never.
“¿Puedes ayudarme con mi tarea?” “Ahorita.”
“¿Ya vámonos?” “Ahorita.”
Aguas
You probably know that agua means water. But in slang aguas means be careful or look out!
I was told that it comes from when a lady would pour out a bucket of water onto the sidewalk. Is that right?
Cabrón
In places like Guatemala or Honduras, when I tell people that I live in Mexico, I often get “¡Ah, cabrón!¨ in response. That´s how Mexican this word is, that other Latins think of it right away when they think about Mexicans.
It might translate to bastard, but really it´s a word to say to a close friend. A male friend. Likebastard, cabrón isn´t appropriate for the family dinner table.
Other words for a male friend are carnal or wey. Vato is similar, more like dude, used in northern Mexico and by chicanos in the U.S.
Chicano
Chicano is the word for Mexican-Americans.
Tocayo
A tocayo is someone with the same name. You can say somos tocayos or just call the person with the same name as you tocayo.
Tope
When you visit Mexico you’ll see speedbumps everywhere. Aguas when you drive over them. They often aren’t marked. Hitting them hard at night makes everyone in the backseat bounce up and slam their heads into the roof of the car.
Speedbumps are called topes, and only in Mexico, I think. In other parts of Latin America and some parts of Mexico they are called something else – tumolo, right?
Camión
A camión is a bus. In other parts of Latin America it’s a truck. I told people in Guatemala that I arrived by camión. They looked at me crazy until I figured it out.
The more official word for a bus in Mexico is autobús, not just plain bus.
Chamba
A chamba is a job, often a lousy job.
You can say, “Tengo que regresar a mi chamba” or ask, “¿Que chamba tienes?”
Chafa
Chafa describes something cheap or low quality.
“Esta coche es chafa.”
Codo
Codo means elbow, but in slang it means cheap, as in a cheap person. A codo person doesn´t want to flex their elbow, as in pulling out money and putting it on the table.
The “real” word for this is tacano.
“No seas codo” – don’t be cheap.
Chavo/Chava
Continuing with the “ch” words, here are slang words for kids. You can also call kids chamacos. Remember the final “o” is for males and “a” for females.
Córrale / apúrate / tengo prisa
The first two mean hurry up. I don’t know if they´re actually slang, but they are damn common.
Tengo prisa means I’m in a hurry.
My friend and fellow Mexican Spanish aficionado Rodney has a great blog of Mexican slang:http://www.myspanishnotes.blogspot.com/ He also writes this one about bad language:http://pelangoche.blogspot.com/
And he let me write a guest post: Learning Spanish Through Music
I hope this list was helpful. Please write whatever I left out or got wrong in the comments.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Festival de Circo de Mazunte Circo consciente con la Comunidad y el Medio Ambiente 22 Febrero - 2 Marzo, 2014
- February 22, 2014 at 10:00am until March 2, 2014 at 1:00pm in UTC-06
Festival de Circo de Mazunte
Circo consciente con la Comunidad y el Medio Ambiente
22 Febrero - 2 Marzo, 2014
Mazunte Circus Festival (Mexico)
A circus community-based and environmentally- conscious
February 22 - March 2, 2014
El Festival de Circo de Mazunte es un evento donde se juntan diferentes formas de expresión artística y artistas de diferentes nacionalidades.
Durante el encuentro, los amantes del circo tienen el privilegio de mejorar o (re)descubrir técnicas circenses como los aéreos, la danza butoh, el Mano a Mano, la Parada de Manos, la Rueda Cyr, el Mástil, el Hula Hoop; o poner a prueba sus talentos con talleres de clown e improvisación teatral.
Las noches del Festival de Circo de Mazunte son iluminadas por compañías invitadas y cabarets y, a lo largo del día, los paseantes se cruzán con olimpiadas y espectáculos itinerantes.
Sin hablar del extraordinario entorno natural que ofrece Mazunte para practicar actividades como sesiones de Chi Kung y/o masajes tailandeses en la playa....
Agenda Talleres:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ festival-de-circo-de-mazunt e/ talleres-festival-de-circo- de-mazunte/ 1378320739074364
Funciones & Conferencias:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ festival-de-circo-de-mazunt e/ funciones-conferencias-fest ival-de-circo-de-mazunte/ 1378324179074020
+ info: festivalcircomazunte@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/festivalcircomazunte
Lado izquierdo--Casa de Emilio, Romelia y sus hijas las bellas Anel y Brianda...Restorant, hospederia y taqueria ... A escasos 3 metros a veces llega en tiempos de marea alta las olas del mar. ///Derecha: Restorant Disco beach Zipolipas Propietaria Sra. Felipa cervantes Fundadora del gremio. — with Ivonne Castillo Oviedo and Mar Cervantes Navarro at google heart.
Lado izquierdo--Casa de Emilio, Romelia y sus hijas las bellas Anel y Brianda...Restorant, hospederia y taqueria ... A escasos 3 metros a veces llega en tiempos de marea alta las olas del mar. ///Derecha: Restorant Disco beach Zipolipas Propietaria Sra. Felipa cervantes Fundadora del gremio. — with Ivonne Castillo Oviedo and Mar Cervantes Navarro at google heart.
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