I first met Carolina 15 years back at the Alliance Française in Paris. She left for Mexico 5 years back and I’m thrilled to meet her in her hometown! It was the national festival of corn with major festivities in the historic centre. We’ve been stuffing ourselves with various derivatives of corn 🌽 It also happens to be “pay day”. Every 15th and 30th is payday and a lot of people line up at bank ATMs. The city is a bit run down but it’s clean and the people are extremely kind and polite. They use Spanish words and phrases which are very mellow as compared to Spaniards. Carolina thinks that it could be a result of their colonial past where locals were encouraged to be servile.