Last night it rained. I was at Global from about 4pm on, and it started to rain about 7pm. I noticed that my english students kept looking nervously out the window, and I just thought that it was because they knew they would get wet when leaving.
Then about 9:30 (the rain had stopped!!), I noticed that there was traffic on a side street to the cafe, a street that is never busy, and less so at night. In fact, last night, the traffic was at a stand still on that street! People started leaving worrying about how they would get home. Someone said that Zaragoza (a main street by the cafe) had flooded and that's why all the cars were on our street. I was working with Jenn, and we left a little after 10pm to take taxis to our homes. I left her in front of the cafe, and started walking to the entrance to the university where there are usually a lot of taxis headed in the direction of my house. (don't worry, it's well lit, and there are a lot of students leaving the university at that hour, so I wasn't alone in the dark at night!!)
On my way to the entrance, I noteced that NO cars were moving and that I hadn't seen even one taxi! I waited about 5 minutes, and still the cars hadn't moved, so I called Gaby to tell her what the situation was, and I crossed the street to a taco restaurant to eat dinner there. About 20 minutes later I left the taco place and went back to wait for a taxi. And I waited. And waited. And no taxis ever passed by. It was after 11pm by this time, and the taco restaurant was closing, and I didn't want to be out there all alone, so I was thinking about who I could call to come take me home. I knew that Gaby's car would be useless in the rain (our street floods pretty bad in the rain), Julian and Whitney's car was in the shop, Martin and Mayte were probably also stuck with no car because of the rain, Silvia's (Jenn's mexican mom) phone was not working, and I couldn't think of anyone else who had a car and that I had their phone number. Not good. So I started to walk. I was trying to think of the safest, not the fastest way to get home. Finally, after walking quite a ways, an empty taxi drove by, with a driver in a bad mood, who didn't want to take me home because he was convinced that my neighborhood was flooded even though Gaby had told me cars can still pass. So I arrived home at almost midnight, knowing what to expect next time it rains for two measly hours in QRO!
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Wow! It must rain really hard over there, do they have cabs that can be hired by phone?? you should try that next time.
Is it dangerous over there?, a friend told me that Queretaro was really safe.
Safe... as in, I feel ok being out at night. But I don't like walking around by myself at 11pm. As far as cities in Mexico go, I would guess QRO is one of the safer of semi-large cities. Cabs unfortunately don't take calls to come to locations that are not houses, much to my dismay.
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