uncle william. for some reason, everyone down here calls me william. and not how y´all say it, but wil-yamm(with a soft ¨a¨). on xmas eve i went to the registrar´s office and became a witness to the naming of my friend´s baby. my buddy oscar omar chavez rodriguez, finally someone with more names than me, has a daughter, alexia natalia chavez, shoot, now i forgot his wife´s last name, anyway, she has four names too. almost had five. the couple got into a small argument at the office when oscar wanted her to take both chavez and rodriguez and the last name of his girlfriend. i offered my opinion to which she told me that she did not need my help! oscar was loving it and i found it very funny also. anyway, i am a witness to something down here. it was funny how much they scrutinized my documents, but they let me be a witness anyway. now when she grows up and wonders why there is a strange name on her birth certificate, alexia natalia will hear a funny story about a guy who used to teach with her father.

weird.

so oscar and, now i am forgetting his girlfriend-fiance´s name as well, picked me up from the bus station around midnight a few days before xmas. they took me back to oscar´s apt in puebla where i stayed for the next four nights, excepts xmas eve when we all went to his brothers house and ate, drank and played games until 4am, even the little 4yr old was still up around this time, at which time everyone crashed somewhere. i slept on the floor, but there was like a floor mat i slept on. it did not matter. the food was fantastic, and we ate for hours, and his father, twin sisters, fiance, brother and family (wife, 3 boys) were wonderful. my picture of them is screwed up but i am working on getting one to put on the website. there was nearly an hour of toasting, i am not joking, and all the chavez men cried, again, not joking. it was great to see all the women, save one of the twins, dry eyed and the men openly weeping. trip.

alright. got to run, but that is the story for the day. men, don´t be afraid to cry. and if you are a weeper, come on down here and i will introduce you to friends.

the days get closer to me moving. i have not been offered a job but it could be tomorrow. we shall see.