As the Burrito Burns

Step into the surrealishious and amazing world of Mexico as told through the eyes and mind of a teacher who has spent the past 20 years living in the coastal city of Puerto Vallarta. A wide range of experiences stretching from the serious to the sublime: living, working, marrying, birthing, teaching, eating, drinking, frolicking and fraternizing and so much more. There is so much to see and do, to tell and be told the list never gets old here at "As the Burrito Burns."

Friday, November 11, 2005

There's a Boa in my air-conditioner!

This afternoon, a group of local "Bomberos" arrived to assist the school secretary with a rather unusual emergency. Her air-conditioner wasn't working and upon closer inspection she discovered a rather large boa constrictor wrapped tightly around the fan! I happened to have a free moment at exactly the time when the snake extraction was scheduled to take place and much to my amazement, the fireman pulled forth a hefty, hissing snake of approximately two meters! It's girth was as thick as my calf! Yowser! By the time he had the snake subdued and stretched it out for all to admire, quite a crowd had gathered and one of the more retiring teachers stepped forward with an obvious intention of getting ahold of this reptilian rascal. Sure enough, there was Lorena, posing as demurely as ever but with an angry boa! Who would have thunk it? The stow-away was then placed in a large garbage bag, a couple of holes were punched through and off went the trusty team of snake catchers supposedly to set the snake free somewhere else. Snake-skin boots anybody?

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