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[*] posted on 2-23-2013 at 02:28 PM


M, while you may look with horror at your cisterna (also called an aljibe down in La Paz) buried in your front yard, those are something I would recommend to anyone who owns a house in Baja. In La Paz there are many days when we don't get water service, or at least, not enough pressure in the water line to push the vital fluid up onto the roof to fill the tinaco. However, there is usually enough water to fill up the cisterna since it is below ground level and gravity works its magic. Then, on the rare occasion when our tinaco runs dry (too many loads of laundry on a no-water day), we simply turn on the pump and re-fill it from the water resevoir below the ground. We never run out of water.

If it makes you uncomfortable having it because of what happened to that tourist in Canada, you could have an herrero make a grate to keep your body from being dropped into it. But you should be happy to have it, they can come in very handy (one doesn't realize how much one needs water UNTIL one runs out of it).

Good luck with your recent lifestyle change--and keep a journal, there's probably a book in it somewhere down the road, and you do like to write!




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[*] posted on 2-23-2013 at 02:39 PM


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I'm sure it is little more than a racket, with official translaters likely paying for government recognition so that they can cash in on foreigners who "need" those services. That isn't how it works where you are at?
It's the real deal. I know a lady who took and finished the college curriculum for "Official Translator" earning her a Licenciatura as well as the title abbreviation before her name...Lic.Byitch.



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[*] posted on 2-23-2013 at 03:03 PM


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I'm sure it is little more than a racket, with official translaters likely paying for government recognition so that they can cash in on foreigners who "need" those services. That isn't how it works where you are at?
It's the real deal. I know a lady who took and finished the college curriculum for "Official Translator" earning her a Licenciatura as well as the title abbreviation before her name...Lic.Byitch.

[Edited on 2-23-2013 by DENNIS]



Yes, a friend of my sister's completed her curriculum to become an official translator--- she said it was not easy!

Since Sirena is in Ensenada, maybe she should check into becoming an official translator. It should be easier for her since she is already bilingual. Then she could set up shop and be official.

And all those pretty gold seals cannot hold a candle to the official gold foil seal used by the State of California --- we hated to give it up when we needed it for a power of attorney in Mexico!

Edited to get out of the quote box. :-)



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[*] posted on 2-23-2013 at 03:23 PM


great that Sirena has started this business ! what a grand idea and how lucky her clients will be ! I personally hope she starts charging something .... she well deserves it.




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