just look at this place, look at the colors
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right hola amigos and welcome back to Mexico I
am just attempting to walk down some steps without falling to my death which
could mean only one thing - you might be able to tell where I am and also you have
probably seen in the thumbnail of this video - yes I'm back in Guanajuato - back -
yes, so I was here last year for about four or five days about nine months ago
I filmed a couple of videos here and today is Saturday afternoon and I am
beyond excited because today is the video you've all been waiting for
okay I'm going to meet someone very special which you might recognize from
another YouTube channel someone else who is based in Mexico - finally this is
happening! let's get going! so I'm just heading to a cafe but before we get
there let's take a bit of a look around Guanajuato what are my opinions in terms
of coming back here after nine months? so originally when I was first year the
last time you might remember that I wasn't the biggest fan because of the
tourist aspect yes it's a common area for foreigners to come to in terms of
tourism however those feelings quickly subsided
and I fell in love with the place in terms of the beauty the color the
architecture is absolutely stunning and one thing I noticed coming here after
nine months was the fact that I feel like my Spanish has got a lot better
because I didn't have an issue finding my accommodation I was speaking to
people more confidently you know so it just goes to show that you can improve
with a language even if you don't actively learn it fantastic
and this can be the 'arrived at the restaurant shot' right hola amigos again it's
a little bit later and I'm at a restaurant and guess who I'm with! okay
so anyway I'm at a restaurant and can you guess who it is
okay I look there right? Yeah look there! This is Erin, I will let her introduce herself. She's a bit nervous!
I was just saying to David that I have no idea how to do this because I'm always the one holding the camera and yeah it's
a lot more comfortable to be the one holding the camera I don't know what's
going on right now, I think I have control issues, yeah totally, so if you don't know Erin which
is extremely unlikely let's face it cuz we share many of the same it's really
crazy people who follow and watch these videos and but yeah for those people
that don't know Erin tell a bit to us tell the viewers a bit about you. I have a YouTube Channel called
Erin's travels very creatively named it's about me and my travels and I
a husband named Jesse and a little girl named Harper who is going to be 4 years
old at you like two weeks which is crazy birthday in Mexico Feliz
cumpleaños Harper! she's very excited she's getting some dinosaur toys
we had to get them for her while she was with us cuz
we needed to get them in Leon and so now she knows about them and so now
every day it's like is it my birthday yet because I know about these things
you know so yeah. Mayhem, carnage, havoc! It's like number 1 parenting rule, don't do that!
yeah I used to open Christmas presents before Christmas Day and wrap them up
again don't tell my mom she's probably gonna tell me off! jessie has this
thing where you can guess a gift just like he doesn't have to pick it up and
shake it we just he just knows it drives everybody crazy because you can't
surprise him with anything. and as you can tell we're a
bit hysterical today I'm not sure why is it because it's Saturday? we haven't even
got wine yet so yeah crazy and just in terms of Mexico you've been here for how
long? So okay we've been in Mexico for almost a year and Guanajuato for almost 10
months I think oh so I've been in Mexico I guess it probably that same time cuz I
take out the time I went to Colombia and all that
it's about similar and and obviously things a bit different because I just
travel aimlessly by myself whereas aaron has doesn't like to travel you know so
it's I would hate a husband that doesn't like to travel that would be the worst
so we're gonna have some food on me why are we ordering so I'm getting Enchiladas
Mineras switches the typical dish of what does
awesome I'm not deciding I'm being basic I'm being a basic bitch enchiladas Rojas
which is the hot one right yeah sorry Mexican Mexicans it's red it'll be good
yes it's hard to go wrong with enchiladas! you can't go wrong with any
Mexican food oh except for the hairy kangaroo - oh right enough of us talking
like idiots for a moment here it's the food so I have enchiladas Rojas
enchiladas chicken I guess cheese onion rice eros oh here comes Erin's sangria
wonderful and why are we going here in let me just oh one second oh no it's
fine the lighting is still bad it's fine
sometimes cheese perhaps cheese and then potatoes and carrots and it's always
topped with chicken but depending on where you go the chicken could be
different sometimes it's a thigh on a bone sometimes it's breaded and fried soon
the chicken is
awesome it looks a bit like what I had in Queretaro the carrots and potato
the big chunks awesome cheers everyone we're doing a Cheers why is it Salud? I don't know, I say that when people sneeze.
oh yeah the taxi driver said to me the other day so I have vino Tinto sangria
which we can now say sangria not sangria
Oh Spanish yes I am the very best this is another thing I'm not used to to
people on camera what's that about and I'm taller. Somebody said that to me in the comments, they saw me in Guadalajara, I was really surprised I
thought you were taller than that sorry to disappoint I'm wee little person!
finally I'm a youtube couple! YES!
I've been down in Calle Subterranea
I have walked on down here. Oh yeah, I've never ever walked, just buses and taxis
although they did have dia de los Muertos oh my god it was so cool,
They had like a big festival in the tunnels
right it's just me again now I've had a glass of wine it's weird just being me
again it's very strange Erin is over there I've got someone photobombing me
who is this and we're just about to film a collab I'm doing a collab for the
first time ever amazing so there will be a video on Erin's channel at some point
we're both talking about how the fact we were feeling a bit lax, lax is a
great word with uploads it's difficult because just to clarify everyone
we can't upload videos as soon as we film them because we need to edit them
it takes time okay so it's time to get filming now I'm the interviewer in case
you don't get that reference we have just filmed a couple of videos for
Erin's channel they will be coming up momentarily, as fast as Harper can edit them.
I need a Harper preferably in a dinosaur costume that would be great so to end
this video we're gonna do a bit of a thought of the day as we like to do. So you might remember I did a video recently where I had a complete meltdown, Erin would like to give her thoughts on it, sometimes it's not
great sometimes it's not perfect so Erin what were your thoughts? you know
it was funny because watching that like I could relate so I get a lot of
comments and a lot of emails from people who are looking to move to Mexico and I
have you know a million wonderful things to say about moving to Mexico like
everybody should do it at least once in their life yeah you know like just I'm
but I I worry sometimes that people don't understand some of the emotional
stuff that comes along with living somewhere where you you know don't know
the language or you don't know the language well or it's just a different
culture from yours even if your next-door neighbors like I just moved
across the border is not that far um there is just it's it's a lot harder
living somewhere other than where you're from it's hard emotionally especially if
you're a sensitive person or you're a thoughtful person like there are some
people like these things are not hard for they just like go through your life
and they're like yeah great like and it just kind of everything
rolls off their back and if you are that type of person like that is wonderful
like you that is like I applaud you but for a lot of us you know it's hard to
not know what you're doing all the time it's hard to not know how to do simple
things that you should know how to do like mail a letter you know I have no
idea I have I have several letters at home that I'm supposed to mail postcards
from Harper to her grandmother like I haven't done it because you know I don't
know how to do it and it's just one it's one more thing with everyday
is a long list of things you don't know and you're incompetent at it does it is
hard you feel like that stupid ignorant foreigner yeah absolutely and this is
real life and that doesn't mean don't do it it doesn't mean it's not worth it but
I hope that people I hope people aren't so blindsided because because I love
travel so much I think that that part of it really surprised me more and it made
it harder for me because I wasn't expecting it because I loved that when I
travel like if I'm going someplace for two weeks for a month that whole like I
don't know what I'm doing I love that that's fun it's delightful right it's so
cool unpredictability and lack of routine is often great yeah yeah and
then you go home and everything is easy and normal normal in quotation marks
familiar and then you recharge and then you go back out into it again and when
you live abroad there is no recharge there is no break from it it's just
tomorrow there's something new that you don't know what you're doing about you
know and it does it can it really can wear you down yeah and what about the
fact that so we were talking about something earlier about YouTube and the
fact that what you see on videos isn't necessarily everything that we do in
life right so you know doing the laundry buying toothpaste you know putting the
trash out I was speaking American English now things in the rubbish bin yeah in
the rubbish bin you know realistically you don't want to
see that but that is the reality and sometimes routine can bring you down and
that's what happened to me in Mexico see and I choice happened to you many times
over the last year as well
you get into the daily grind and and that stuff doesn't make it on the video
and it's in it's not because we're trying to hide it it's just that you
know it doesn't like when you're when you're frustrated because you can't
figure out how you know to do something it's not the time when you're like oh
you know when I'm out having a beautiful meal with friends I'm like yes I want to
document I want to film it because it's beautiful I want to remember it it would
share it you know that's when I'm feeling like you know when I'm walking
around in Centro and there's somebody singing and it's beautiful that's one
that's when I'm like oh come recover you know when I'm at home and I'm I'm sad
and depressed and like lonely like that's not when I'm like oh let's film
it I guess what I try to show and I think you do as well is an honest and
realistic view of what it's like to live in a country for a long period yeah
because it isn't all shits and giggles yeah yeah so the point is you know if
you're thinking of traveling long time or moving to Mexico like every done I've
done essentially moving very soon it isn't always perfect you have to take
the bad with the good and not necessarily believe all these
things you see on YouTube channels about perfection and always being in this
wacky crazy good mood because it's not like that think about it in your lives
you know are you like that every day no you're not but it's probably not and I
mean maybe like if you are that's great yeah please tell me how you do let us
know in the comments how the hell you do that because we are incapable
unfortunately today we're having a laugh and
one of the things that a lot of people said in that video to me in comment was
about meeting people and spending time socially hello what are we doing and
this makes all the difference so yeah well no we just think alike I want to I
want everybody to start complaining about cities that attract a lot of
gringos, stop complaining about Ajijic, stop complaining about San Miguel,
stop complaining about those places because if you are gonna make this work
for the long term you are gonna eat community and some people are gonna find
that in places like Guanajuato in places that were in other cities that have
fewer expats and some people are not and so like just just stop like
stuff like hating on people because they go to places with established mean that
they don't want to be involved in the mexican community yeah it means that if
you aren't fluent in Spanish that's going to be hard for you
that's amazing advice so I think I've been a bit negative about that in the
past oh it should be the real Mexico and don't go to Vallarta, Cancun but actually
the longer I've been here I think it would have been easier for me if I'd
gone to someone like that seemed too easy to integrate rather than having
that shock of rocking up in doctores in Mexico City when you're traveling
somewhere don't go to the tourist places when you want to live someplace
don't discount them hmm absolutely thanks for watching everyone watch out
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