It's Friday and it's also November the second which means dia de Muertos
exciting by the way I've just filmed this bit maybe 20 times until I realized
I had something stuck in my tooth so I've got to do it again!
filming life! amazing! so this is the first of two videos I'm doing today
this one is more talking related about a specific interesting topic the second
one will be more themed around Day of the Dead so watch out for that one I'm
in Narvarte at least very close to Narvarte take right now and I moved back
here last night so those of you that are long-term viewers might remember that I
was living in Narvarte, it was the first place I moved to in Mexico City and
something struck me last night when I was walking to Oxxo I remembered back
to when I first got here when everyone was telling me Mexico City is so
dangerous you know I was being really self-aware and conscious of my
surroundings and that kind of thing and last night although obviously I would
still be like that to a certain degree I wasn't because I felt at home I felt
comfortable and it got me thinking back to a video I did a very long time ago in
terms of my first impressions of Mexico City so today I wanted to sit down and
answer the question have my opinions change to have my impressions change in
Mexico City for the better for the worst we're gonna find out in this video I'm
gonna jump on the subway now we're going to Coyoacan to also check out what's
going on for dia de muertos let's go. oh it's hot tip of the day if you're coming
to Coyoacan, the metro station is nowhere near Coyoacan
itself so you do have to walk down this like big road takes about
20 minutes no problem. So walk out of the station, past San Angel hospital cars everywhere just
up that way at least I think it is if I remember rightly from last time
so welcome back to Coyoacan yes welcome back if you want to check out
the video I did originally here check out the link up above in the card just
to point out the level of detail that goes into this channel this is literally the
exact spot to the centimeter was where I filmed the first impressions video of
Mexico City this time though there are many children around me screaming and
shouting and talking to me while I'm trying to do this right
attention to detail is over I've moved I can't deal with the f**king children for
a moment longer in terms of my impressions of Mexico City and how
they've changed have they changed yes or no I'm going to start off with no so
when I came here I didn't have all of these preconceived ideas about Mexico
that everyone talks about these you know the mainstream media's ideas of Mexico
and Prejudice is that kind of thing so I kind of came here with a mind which
other people may not come to Mexico with like I said in that video
that I mentioned before I've been to Central America I've spent a lot of time
in South America obviously they're different countries and they're not
Mexico but in terms of Latin America and living in these countries and knowing
what to expect I had some level of expectation already so in terms of that
now it hasn't changed at all and quite honestly I'm actually shocked and
surprised by some of the things that I've heard since I've been here in terms
of mainstream media it's just ignorant completely ignorant
lack of knowledge and really frustrating because I feel like a Mexican now and to
hear some of the things that people say about Mexico
without even coming here it drives me crazy because I think you can sense my
anger and you know don't have a idea about a country unless you come here
so in that respect no nothing has changed in terms of my impressions of
Mexico in terms of yes yes things have changed I think but for the positive not
negative at all and I already knew that you know people in Mexico and people in
Latin America were fantastic helpful friendly and welcoming but that has just
increased exponentially in the time I've been here people are so welcoming even
though I don't speak Spanish but basic Spanish is through in the last video it
doesn't really matter yeah sometimes I do feel like I'm the the stupid
foreigner that can't speak the language but people are very patient and that's
been one of the greatest things one thing I did say in that video that were
slightly ignorant was the fact that I felt like and I didn't look like a
Mexican but actually one of the things I've learned and I'm not ashamed to say
that I was ignorant about it Mexico is huge and there's so much
culture and history and religion food in different areas of Mexico and people do
look different you know there isn't one way that a Mexican looks I could quite
easily pass to our Mexican people look different in terms of skin color hair
color everything all over the country so there isn't just one way that a Mexican
look so don't think that as I thought when I first came here and as I just
mentioned about history culture religion and food the idea that I had in the
beginning when I came to Mexico was yeah there was a certain level of culture
history that sort of thing but the time that I've been here it's just exploded
and I've been to a lot of countries in the world and by far Mexico is the
country that has the most diverse level of culture history people religion food
everything and one of the things I just wanted to
say to end this was the fact that as a traveler as a backpacker back in the day
yes I used to stay in hostels I think Central America Mexico South
America in general are kinda forgotten about when it comes to as
possible traveling destinations whether that be backpacking whether that be
long-term traveling whether that being a digital nomad everyone talks about Asia
Chiang Mai Thailand Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Bali Indonesia and yet I've
been to all those places except Chiang Mai but if you're in that position and
you want to travel for the first time or maybe the second time or be a digital
nomad consider Mexico please because this place has done so much for me in
terms of travel in terms of working online terms of everything so overall
Mexico is awesome quite honestly and yes my opinion has
changed but for the better fantastic!
right before I go newsflash I almost passed
out twice yesterday once in a supermarket
once on the subway I think it's due to lack of food and water and general
exhaustion so on that note before we leave Coyoacan let's have some food
there's proper sausages behind me sausages
It's starting to rain a bit, but I don't care
that is the first proper sausage I think I've had two years it's amazing
beautiful sausages for life I'm not going to give you a detailed food video
because I'm crap at that I'm just going to eat it right I swear this is the final
stop now, I've just stopped off for some churros, well literally one of them
filled with Nutella
food orgasm alert that's heavenly one thing I love about Coyoacan you get these
churros that they inject with things like Nutella
it's beautiful! I'm stuffed now once again Mexican food
and turned me into a pig so thank you Coyoacan once again for a lovely day and
lots of lovely food you might remember in the last video my battery died before
I could eat the churros but this time we've been successful why are your
thoughts about Mexico if you particularly if you've been in Mexico
for a long time as a foreigner did your thoughts change or impressions change
let me know in the comments don't forget to Like comment and subscribe the next
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way there there won't be a video you'll wish me luck thanks for watching and
I'll catch you later