- Hello, and welcome back to my channel.
If you're new here, my name is Maddie,
and I currently live in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Today, after getting many, many requests for this,
I will be showing you what a day in my life looks like
in this city.
I also recently asked on my Facebook
if there were any burning questions you guys wanted me
to answer in an upcoming video,
and I got a lot of responses.
So throughout this video,
I will also be answering a few of those questions.
To start off, I will be heading to my lavanderia.
This is my laundromat where, actually,
I used to go to get my clothes washed in 2018.
I'm still coming back here 'cause they do an awesome job.
They don't steal anything, and it's pretty affordable.
Hello. Good morning.
Full-service laundry please.
(upbeat music)
What is your name?
So at most of these lavanderias,
you can usually do your own clothes
but I choose the "servicio," the full service route,
because in this case, for about two weeks worth of laundry,
it's 90 pesos.
That's all.
And they wash it, dry it, fold it,
and package it all up for you really nice.
And this one's really quick, too.
It'll be ready in about four hours or so.
It is called Lavanderia Quick Wash.
And I do recommend it.
However, just know that if you come here
and you have any clothes that are shrinkable,
they definitely 1000% will miniaturize them
with their really, really,
what I think must be the most high-powered dryers
of all time.
In my last video, I showed you what my
at-home morning routine looks like.
That's making my own coffee at home, an iced latte,
journaling, maybe some stretching.
So I'm not gonna go through that again.
This is what my daily life looks like
when I go out for breakfast.
Aw, man. The place I wanted to go for breakfast is closed.
Of all days.
It's closed Tuesdays. Mm.
I had the most delicious eggs plate here the other day
with my friend Moni, and I really wanted that again.
I was already craving it the second we left.
But luckily, there are lots of restaurants on this street,
and when we came on Sunday, all of them were packed.
But today, there's hardly anyone in any of them,
so I can take my pick.
(upbeat music)
Good morning. Table for one.
Come on in. Would you like a table outside or inside?
Outside please.
Come on in. Sit wherever you'd like.
Oh, dang. This menus is as big as I am.
I decided to go to this place called Membrillo,
mostly because it had a swing outside,
a friendly looking dog.
Hello.
Aww. You're a sweetie.
And awesome outdoor seating, which I really like.
And it seems they're dog-friendly, as well.
If I had a dog, that would be great.
But I think also this was the most packed on Sunday.
So I'm like, "What's all the hullabaloo about?
I wanna find out."
I'll have a green juice please.
And also "Membrillo" enchiladas
No onion, please
Does it have any sesame?
Of what?
Sesame
Yes it does, should I take that off?
Oh, yes. No sesame. I'm allergic.
Thank you.
And orange juice, right?
Green juice.
Thank you.
And on the dog note,
I might as well answer one of these questions.
This one comes from Kelso basically asking
since I miss Laska every single day,
have I thought about getting a new dog or a pet?
And the answer is I would absolutely love to get a dog,
would be my first one ever that's my dog.
I think I would feel a lot safer since I'm, you know,
solo female traveling and living alone.
However, since I don't have a long-term home base as of yet,
I will be moving out of Guadalajara
in a handful of months and most likely moving
to Mexico City, I don't think now would be the best time.
Someone had suggested that perhaps what I could do
in that case to get my doggie fix
is volunteer at an animal shelter,
and I will definitely be looking into that.
I ended up getting their house enchiladas,
which said it had a creamy red sauce and shredded beef
in the inside- or, well, filled with shredded beef.
And it's also totally drenched in cheese.
I'm so excited to try this.
Oh, it smells amazing.
Mmm.
Oh my gosh.
This sauce is amazing.
These certainly were not the cheapest enchiladas
that I've ever ordered.
I believe they were 175 pesos.
But the flavor, oh, worth it.
Well, to be honest, the meat wasn't my favorite part.
It was pretty dry and kind of chewy,
but that did not stop me
from eating almost the entire plate.
The sauce, oh, absolutely mind-blowing.
I think I'm gonna have to come back here again
and get that on maybe chicken enchiladas or eggs.
That would be good.
(upbeat music)
As you can probably very easily tell
by all the puddles around me,
the rainy season has officially started in Guadalajara.
It goes from about June 'til September.
I am absolutely delighted because it has been so, so hot.
The month of May was just absurdly hot,
and I barely ever wanted
to leave my air conditioned apartment.
Air conditioning, by the way, extremely rare.
And I'm so thankful that I had that.
But it also means now it's pretty humid.
But I will take a little bit of humidity
for the coolness any day.
To get back to those questions you guys were asking,
one that I absolutely knew was going to come up,
am I dating?
Well, I stayed intentionally single
for almost a year after the breakup
to make sure that I could rediscover myself,
get back on my feet,
and not just rebound into something
because it would be the comfortable thing to do.
To be very clear, I'm not pointing fingers at anyone.
This is not a dig.
This is just, that was my decision.
I needed to find out who I was outside of a relationship
since I was in one for five-and-a-half years.
I needed to find out what I like doing by myself,
who I am by myself, and how to be happy by myself.
And since I now feel like that is the position I'm in,
the answer to the question, "Am I dating?" is yes.
And the follow up question that I've gotten many times,
am I dating or will I date Mexicans?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Absolutely. I love Mexicans for many, many reasons.
And dating them has been lovely, so I plan to continue.
Of course, I'm not ruling anybody else out,
any other nationality or whatever,
but yes, I am enjoying dating Mexicans at the moment.
Perhaps one of the most popular questions I've gotten lately
between Facebook and my channel and DMs
and people just asking me in person
is some variation of, am I going back home?
Meaning Phoenix, Arizona, or the US in general.
Is that in my plans? Nope.
I do not plan to ever go back and live in the US,
even though I miss my friends and family there dearly.
Mexico is my home for now.
Maybe in the future, I'll go travel to other countries
or live in some other country.
But for now I'm planting my roots in Mexico,
and I couldn't.
I couldn't go back and live in the US
even if I really wanted to
because after spending about two or three weeks there,
all my previous health issues start coming back.
So it's not even really an option.
Also, does anybody else see what type
of crap is hitting in the fan in the US?
I- nope.
Doesn't even seem- for many, many reasons-
It doesn't seem like an option for me.
So it's at this point in my day that I usually come home
and start working on all things MaddieGold.
So right now I'm editing this video,
the one that you're currently watching.
But this is also my time to answer emails,
respond to comments, post things on social media,
work on captions for my videos
or other YouTube-related tasks.
This could also be the time that I plan for future trips,
like book my flights or accommodations
or do research for maybe where I wanna travel next
or brainstorm ideas for videos I'd like to do.
So now I'm on my way to another cool spot
that I sometimes do work
because of the lightning-fast internet,
and my apartment does not have that.
On the way there,
I figured I would address the giant elephant in the room,
something that people continue to ask,
and I continue to try to stay out of it.
All questions to do with what do I think
of this, that, and the third,
anything to do with my ex and Tangerine Travels.
Please just stop asking.
It's none of anyone's business.
I think it's incredibly insensitive to ask these questions.
Rude, disrespectful, many other things.
We've been broken up for almost a year now.
I don't need to have an opinion on it.
You don't need to know my opinion if I had one.
Also, I don't think it's very respectful
or appropriate or many other things for me to speculate
or have an opinion on anything that he's doing.
And how could I?
I haven't watched his videos in about two months now.
So I decided to come to this co-working space,
and I have here Lev and Elizabeth.
- Hello.
- So your guys' name, I really love it, for this space.
- Yeah, Leveli. - Leveli.
So it's a combination of both of their names.
And the first time I came here is
because I was trying so desperately to upload videos,
and you guys have really fast fiber optic here.
But yeah, so we're here in this cool back area
where they can host events and do barbecues, right?
- Yeah, we could do different different events.
We have different dinners.
We had a Chinese dinner, a Korean dinner.
What other dinner did we have?
I think it was like- - [Maddie] Russian?
- Yeah, we had a Russian dinner there. Yeah.
- [Maddie] So would you mind giving us a tour
of the place? - Sure, sure.
All right, so where should we start off,
the coworking or the kitchen?
A or B? A or B?
- [Maddie] These doors are open. Let's do it.
- You guys choose. Vote on it.
All right, so here we have the kitchen.
- Did we already mention
that this is a co-working and co-living?
So it's kind of like this hybrid between co-working space,
we'll show you the conference room,
but also it's kind of like a hostel
for people to stay. - Yeah, exactly.
Well, initially, that was the idea to start as a hostel,
but then it changed
because we wanted to make it a lot more comfortable.
- Yeah, so it's been more like building a community,
which is really cool.
So let's onward to the conference room.
Be a little quiet because there's a girl working.
- So we can go into the co-working space. Shh.
- So, yeah, we gotta be quiet
because there's someone in here working.
But here's a nice conference room area.
Lots of places to sit or to chill,
plants hanging everywhere for nice, good oxygen.
Shall we go upstairs?
- Yes. Yes. We can go upstairs.
And I do apologize because the bunk room,
people are in and out all day.
- So I'm sure many people are familiar
with how hostel living kind of works.
You get your own space, a locked area,
and you're sharing the room with some other people.
- Exactly. Everyone has a curtain for their privacy.
Also, outlets, everything you need.
And the mattress is super comfortable.
- [Maddie] Ooh, that's a great feature.
- We checked out so many mattresses.
We went to all these different places.
It took us a few weeks.
And then finally, we were like, "Okay, this is it."
- As many people know while traveling,
the mattresses are not always very comfortable,
especially in Mexico in my experience.
- So guests won't have that issue.
- So you can sleep peacefully at night here.
So I'll show you what it looks like up here.
That's a cool cozy space.
So, yeah, you have your outlet, a light,
more outlets, a lockbox.
And then does each person get more locked space?
- Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So this is for their general things,
like their bags and everything.
And this is if they want to hide their passport or wallet
or even laptop, they could, you know,
have it up there, yeah.
And they can charge it while they have it locked up.
- [Maddie] Well, that's cool.
- Yeah, exactly.
- [Maddie] Oh my gosh. That's awesome.
And you have A/C.
That's a selling feature right there.
- [Lev] I mean, especially around these months,
you know, it's been really, really hot in Guadalajara.
This is the yoga studio slash activity room.
- [Maddie] Yoga studio!
- So you can fit a lot of people and,
you know, sometimes people come here,
they exercise, they do yoga.
A lot of work has been done here.
- A lot of work has been done to transform this space.
- We definitely underestimated it,
but it's totally worth it.
I'll say that.
- So after I finished up my work there yesterday,
I ended up developing a really bad headache,
and it was getting dark, and I thought it was gonna rain.
So I had to postpone the rest of the video for today.
But now I'm heading somewhere that I've been really dying
to go for the past couple weeks now.
And I'm gonna take an Uber to get there,
an incredibly cheap Uber.
So where I wanted to come was a ukulele store
that I found here in Guadalajara
because at the end when I was selling everything
that I owned in the US, one of the very last things
that I sold was my ukulele
'cause I just wasn't sure in the very end
if we were gonna have enough space in the car,
and we didn't.
Well. It's been a long time since I've played a ukulele
So I don't know if you have any recommendations for me?
I don't remember if it was a "Concert" or "Soprano"
I think it was the smallest size.
Okay, that would be Soprano.
Soprano?
So these are
Soprano
And these are Concert?
These are concert and we have here Tenor.
I didn't even know whether or not
I was gonna buy a ukulele here today,
but still, this guy, topnotch customer service.
He explained all the differences
between all the different ukuleles, the materials,
the sizes, the shapes of them,
the different levels of quality that I could choose between.
And he gave me an entire, basically, a beginner lesson,
like a bite-sized beginner lesson in the different chords.
And then he also took the time
to help show me how to hold it, where to strum,
make sure my fingers were in the correct position.
Here? Not here?
No.
Oh, okay.
As a matter of fact, there's that misconception
because guitars are much larger
And for that reason (you strum) here.
Yeah.
And you'll have freedom of movement
Ah, okay.
Yeah? Okay.
So the first chord is "doe."
So you'll put your 3rd finger on the 3rd fret.
First chord, and you continue...
And in the United States, this note is "C"?
Yes
"C," okay.
So really, to choose a ukulele
There are two things to consider:
The first is, the person's comfort in playing it.
And the other is the ukulele you like.
The images or designs.
Yes, exactly. And the last thing I want to tell you is
The ukuleles play exactly the same
I mean, between ukuleles of different sizes
There is a difference in the sizes of the frets, these.
So there's a bit more freedom when playing.
For example, I have bigger hands.
So it's easier to play.
And much larger still is the Tenor ukulele.
Ah, it's bigger
So the frets are bigger still.
Yeah? But in the end, remember what I told you
They play the same.
The same here.
They play exactly the same.
So I don't know if you like one?
There are so many options
Really, this was such a good experience
and actually so much more fun than I was expecting it to be.
And I decided on this one.
Perfect! - And it comes with
The case is included
The truth is, it's very resistant.
Do you already know our store? - What?
Do you already know our store?
Oh, this store? No, it's my first time here.
Just this week I decided that
I wanted to buy one
I was thinking of buying one for a few weeks
But I wasn't sure, but today...yes!
You went for it! - Yes!
Are you following our social media?
Not yet, but I could
We have a tradition that every time someone buys a ukulele
They gong the bell over there
and we upload it to our Instagram story
Oh wait, where? Where is the bell?
There in the middle
- Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Oh my gosh, you guys.
This is the greatest thing ever. Okay.
On my YouTube channel, I have a thing
at the end of the video where I say
Gong that bell!
It's a thing to...
To encourage.
To ask my subscribers to hit the notification bell
on YouTube.
And because of that,
this is perfect for this video.
On the screen here
is one of my favorite videos I've made recently,
so you can continue watching.
Please subscribe to my channel, and one more thing.
Maddie just bought her first ukulele here
And she's going to gong the bell
Yeah!
(bell rings) (man cheers)
Gong that bell so you get notified the next time
I release a new video,
and I hope to see you there.