i have a new job offer. the place is puerto angel and it is about 4 hrs from where i currently live, and about 50 kilometers north of huatulco where i first arrived. the town is extremely small from what i hear and there is not a lot to do aside from going to the beach, hiking, surfing and exploring a new area. in other words, i think there is a lot to do there despite how it is billed. i am going this weekend to check it out and see how much things are there. the lady at the university with whom i am in contact tells me i can rent a place for around 1000 pesos a month, which is more than i pay now but not a lot of money in the long run. we will see.

i was wrong about the assassination i described on monday. the person killed was actually the president of ixtepec, the town where i live. he and two other family members were shot in veracruz last week. apparently he was once a fairly poor man who had a very small house and seemed to fit in well in this community. then, mysteriously, a few years ago, after he took office, he came into vast sums of money, built a huge house with a pool and threw money around all over town. mysterious unless you believe what everyone says and acknowledge that he was part of a drug trade. i have no idea about it really, but i am not sure why he would have been shot, along with a few family members, if he were the simple, modest-living person he was a few years ago. either way, a very interesting turn of events.