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And I left the cab driver who couldn’t get his payment machine to work for me to leave a tip. I felt a little bad but couldn’t do anything. I went through LaGuardia security heaving my two overflowing bags onto belts and into bins, shoes off, shoes on, arms…
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“Feliz Cumpleaños” means Happy Birthday, but cumple means “you complete” + “years.” So the term is also used for death anniversaries or any anniversary, every time you complete a year… For example, on July 19 I told my host sister that it was my Grandmother’s “anniversary of her death”…
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Posadas are another word for hotel or inn.
‘Round Christmas time (this borrowed from a google search) posada is: (in Mexico) a ritual re-enactment of Mary and Joseph’s search for a lodging in Bethlehem, performed just before Christmas.
After Christmas, certainly the weirdest ever over the crackling of the plancha and tamales…
All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.