28 January 2008

Other things seen: (an previously unposted bunch of thoughts from Guatemalan observations)

=Spray painted on a warehouse across from the large market in Xela appearing shortly after election results announced: NARCOLOM (Clever, Narcotrafficker-Colom)

=Abundance of pair-less two year old girls' dress shoes (think white scuffed Mary Jane approximately 4 inches in length) accompanying middle aged or father-aged men either in hand or hung from nearby places to their heads (bus shelves).

=5 people fit snugly on one undersized hybrid bicycle (3 were children).

=Half tub (no, not tube) of hair gel used in one male's hair styling for one day.

=Forthcoming English phrase t-shirts such as "Playgirl", "Hot Chick", "Bitch", "Your boyfriend wants me" and other such imaginable gems on rather unsuspecting looking pre-preteens (maybe this just means I am not "hip").

=Bathroom signs (in a country I would put near the bottom of likely-to-make-an-issue-about-clothing-gender-stereotypes list) which depict, to clarify the which bathrooms go with which sex/gender, a woman sitting on a toilet and a man with a small penis pulled out peeing into a urinal. In case there were any sort of doubt about how the deed is done.

=Walking out of my front door: an entire funeral procession descending upon my rather small street.

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