Living in Mexico Part 1 of 3

if you could follow somebody around for a day in a country that's not your own what would you find out this is the question I had in mind when I called my Uncle Tom to see if you wanted to go to Mexico Tom's a retired school teacher who's been traveling to Mexico for years he said he knew some people we could drop in on who would probably let us follow them around yeah a little more haha you fit in tostada Jose is a self-employed taco vendor who tom knows from a previous visit and we find him in its kitchen getting ready for the day you can't it's outside piquant old aha hey chili see para la salsa oh yeah see see what it doesn't I think you saw salsa say yeah oh yeah I know Leah cilantro cilantro oh my face oh yeah mohara more era O'Hara because today is Friday Jose is making ceviche with raw fish he gets up at 6:00 in the morning to start making his tacos but doesn't go out to sell them until 11:00 he seems to accept our curiosity about his day and says he doesn't mind if we follow him around with the camera hey cuando MPUs a esta mañana en pizzelles eres peso no las seis de la mañana de la manana mmm human oregano se colony glaze Cannella Cannella de vino' Grenada Jamaica Samiha yes Heba hacer con esto pasa horny botella see bastante he can so see mucho can be you think of you think of it so men say tengo una subida Jennifer des voix lo que yo le tombeau esto papad Oh Mindy hey Oh yo creo que para me mismo I prefer working alone or were being my own boss because I worked in Guadalajara for 33 years in a factory in a shoe factory and this I can call my own shots whoo did you I go out in the morning with one basket of 150 tackles and I come back when I run out and make another batch of 100 who grow in the afternoon Vijay Oh Spanish teacher I'd like to learn how to do something else because it the competition there's more and more people coming into tux LA and they're all starting to sell different things la vida del Mexicano esta Behar trabajar the life is a mexican't is to work and work and work just to survive it's it's a jungle out there and we just work to stay level our hope is someday to get ahead we have aspirations of something bigger right now it is just just to get through the work and I guess he didn't estimate it in the same blue-collar neighborhood as Jose we drop in on Julio who makes his living as a welder and we find him working in his backyard suddenly the cow and god I'm very particular about what I do and I take pride in what I do and that's why I'd rather work for myself than working just for a big factory MK Italia nobody stopped me yeah sorry the people come in and ask for something or whatever they asked me to do I do it anything made out of metal I I can do pencil method empleado my vision this in the future is that I will train other young people who want to do this and I will be the one over them telling them how to do it and I would have they would be doing the actual work and I would be just there the boss boys and Julio also shows us a workout machine he invented that he uses to keep in shape for what turns out to be as hobby it's you know it's like it's like wrestling in the United States Oh shake Pantheon dome and he's he's the bad guy uh

Channel: Karl Knapp

Views: 233,808

Rating: 4.8382912 out of 5

Keywords: Everyday, life, in, Mexico

Id: 43ZcZWECK8I

Length: 9min 39sec (579 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 15 2009