Expat Living

Two new section heads who arrived at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara in the past month are acclimatizing to life in Mexico’s second largest city but both admit the process is hardly taxing.

A day of celebration anticipating Dia de Independencia is set at St. Mark’s Anglican/Episcopal church in Guadalajara for Sunday, September 14, two days before the actual holiday. The festivities begin at the 10:30 a.m. English Mass, with the 10-member English choir, invited soprano Karla Martinez and guitarist Daniel Lemoine performing “México Lindo y Querido” along with hymns, directed by Debra Rodriguez with acclaimed organist Ana Silvia Guerrero.

On Saturday, August 2, 105 women and their children came together to breastfeed simultaneously for one minute in Guadalajara’s Parque Metropolitano as part of the Global Big Latch On.

An expat “foodie” who loves to cook is now offering a variety of “north of the border” dishes, either served family style on select Saturday evenings each month, or packaged “to go” in individual to family sized portions.  Living in a foreign culture and experiencing the culinary diversity is wonderful.  But, when you just yearn for a taste of home, and don’t want to cook, Grandma Gail will be in her kitchen whipping up something that will hit the spot.   

The ouster of the 2013 Watermelon Seed Spitting Champion of Western Mexico was a highlight of this year’s July Fourth picnic at St. Mark’s Anglican/Episcopal Church in Guadalajara.

Sharp-eyed visitors to downtown Guadalajara may notice that the hands of the clock sitting above the main balcony of the Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno) in the Plaza de Armas do not move. In fact, the clock has not been telling Tapatios the time since January 30, 1915.