Loading...The Perfect Job, Part I
A graduate’s most urgent target is finding a job; it is after all the reason of having endured four or more years of intensive studies. A few weeks ago I finally accepted a job offer at Schindler, the global number one in escalators and number two in elevators, which I believe to be my perfect starting position into working life. Although my post-graduation job search …
Bitter Sweet Black
Although tomatoes are most prominently used in the Italian kitchen, this red fruit originated in South America. Antique cultures also cultivated many other products, most of which are global commodities in today’s world, among them cacao. Chocolatl, as it was called by the Aztecs, was a drink associated with the goddess of fertility and thus was of high value to the people. Only the rich …
The Leaving Sun
El sol sale, the sun leaves if literally translated, in Mexican Spanish means that the sun rises. Indigenous cultures believed that the human beings were living on a flat earth, surrounded by an endless ocean. The sun thus comes down from ‘heaven’ every morning and ultimately drowns in the ocean when night comes (thus the expression el sol muere, the sun dies). Modern Mexico, however, is …
Between Heaven and Hell
Ciel (cielo means sky or heaven) is one of Mexico’s most prominent bottled waters. Annual consumption per person of bottled water soared to 234 liters in 2009, according to IPS News. Not only in terms of water reach Mexicans to heaven. People call themselves ‘catholics’ and, as far as I can tell after having experienced local customs for two weeks, they surely are. Elderly and …
A United Disgrace
Traveling from Switzerland to Mexico shouldn’t be too difficult, given today’s worldwide network of air routes. The world fourth largest airline, United, offers daily flights between Zurich and Mexico City, with transfer in the United States. A member of Star Alliance, the largest confederation of airlines with over 21000 daily departures to 1172 airports, it possesses more than 360 planes and flies to about 216 …