Saturday, April 17, 2004

Mexico Beckons to Canadian Girls

unity
i am checking every day my emails these days, because
my sister and the
whole family is waiting for her second child. and
today it happened, the
news reached me too. its a boy. he's name's diego. i'm
happy everythings
o.k, everybody goes well.
hmm..mexico in two weeks. i would recommend you to fly
to mexico city. take
a bus to oaxaca. the trip takes 6 hours and you arrive
in a very beatiful
kolonalistic town. not too big, not too small. there
are some interesting,
exotic markets, a lot of indigena culture, and
nightlife too. from there you
can make different daytrips to visit ruins and theres
an amazing place in
the mountains called hierve del agua. oaxaca is my
favorite place in mexiko.
after oaxaca - after another 6 hours by bus - over the
sierra madre del sur,
with incredible views {and neverending curves} you
will reach pochutla. from
there on take a colective {don't pay more than 7
pesos} to mazunte. mazunte
is super laid-back, supernice and superbeautiful. a
place to forget the time
and the reasons why go back home.
go there!
the place won't disappiont you.
there a some other places around like puerto angel
{snorkel} or zipolite
{party}.

this seems a good solution for the time you have. let
me know what you think
about this.
besos
manuel

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Ruins, Life, Ventilators

dear unity. clear
thank you once more for your words. your descripsions
bring me to feel with
you, make me touch the understanding of the moments
inside you.
your open eyes, your open heart give you a very
intense life. the search for
more, your goals and the thirst about consciousness
bring you far away and
close to happiness. its the path you started walk.
there's no way back and you
will have to find your luck deeper then someone else.

i don't know what i'm looking for. maybe nothing.
sometimes its all. it
depends the day, my mood, a situation. these days i'm
in palenque. green, deep
green rainforest grows to the sky. untouchable, sacred
and in an kind mother.
day and night its very very hot, the sweat runs out
everywhere and i sleep in
the night with a loud ceiling fan. did you see the
movie "angel heart"? i
feel not the fear in this movie, i feel the pressure
of the heat. sometimes it
does like fever to my thoughts.
i went to the ruins. i went to the river in the
forest. another different
worl. i can't count all the different world i
travelled through. and its still
mexico.
the time with my parents was great. they enjoyed these
three weeks very
much. my stepfather bought two ranchero hats and
sometimes, he had both of them
on his head. my mother had an accident and we had to
go to the hospital. a big
adventure for all of us. it was nothing too bad, but
from then on she had to
walk with "mulettas". they always commented everything
they saw. i think it
was very impressive for them. i cant remember the last
time i spent such a
long time together with them. they became old. they
still have a lot of my love
i have to give. i was very sad, the moment they left
me, in the same moment
i was happy to go on an other rhythm.

this trip means for me step out of the life i am born
into. step out of the
system back home. i want to reflect all. myself and my
connections to the
programmed life at home. you know, after 2 month back
in zurich, the things
there are normal. you accept it and you find your
pleasure somewhere. sports,
bars, friends, women, cinema, television, internet,
playstation or pure work.
everything everytime. that cannot be all. im here to
find out if its all. i
have this life. i want to spend it concious and with
respect to myself. maybe i
find a situaton wich invites me to live better. its a
search and in the same
moment i do not expect anything. i feel thanks to be
able to search. to have
a choice.
a lot of poeple in switzerland find their choices in
the color of a car.
i see a lot of poeple here, every day. with less then
one choice. that
brings you to think about. i would like to give
something. more than some pesos.
but its difficult. maybe its only a wish. i have not
thought about this
enough.

i'm looking forward to write you a letter. i'm sorry.
it takes demasiado
tiempo. soy esperando unos dias a la playa donde
encuentro bastante tiempo para
verte.

besote
manuel