I.I.IV EUDAIMONIA Much like when I was a kid, I started re-questioning everything about everything. I had to start back from scratch, from the very foundation; tabula rasa. Philosophy, politics, science, society, every single thing. I let go of everything I thought I knew and started all over. “Who am I?” I’d ask myself over and over, much like when […]
I.I.I.II – Mexico City: Day Two & Three
MEXICO CITY I.I.I.II – DAY TWO & THREE 05/08/22 & 06/08/22 There is much to say about the capital of Mexico. Of the six days I’d have going around, I decided to spend the first three exploring the heart of the city. I got to appreciate CDMX more than I ever could by reading about it or by looking at […]
I.I.III – Reignited
I.I.III REIGNITED They say that ignorance is bliss. They also say pineapples shouldn’t be on pizza. Or that downing an entire can of whipped cream at one go is bad for you. Clearly ‘they’ is an idiot and ignorance is not bliss. What I’m trying to say in all these convoluted terms is that if I’ve learnt anything at all, […]
I.I.I.I – Mexico City: Day One
MEXICO CITY I.I.I.I – DAY ONE 04/08/22 It took nearly a day of flying, and despite all my drama and whining, I had finally made it. I was in Mexico City (CDMX) – in friggin Mexico, in friggin Latin America! Whilst I could hardly believe it, I brushed off the impending wave of exhilaration without a second thought – I […]
I.I.II – Ex-Father
I.I.II EX-FATHER My father was never a man of many words. Unless those words were “no” or “you had that coming”. For the better part of my life he could have just been the family butler with whom I’d be forced to hang out with on occasion, but that’s about it. He’d come home late from work, pick a fight […]
MEXICO – HISTORY
MEXICO HISTORY POLITICAL The first evidence of inhabitation dates back to around 8000BC; with agriculture being key to thousands of years’ worth of development. This formed the basis of the first villages in Mesoamerica, with the Olmecs settling along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico at around 1200BC. Whilst co-existing with other empires such as the Teotihucanos, by 500BC, […]
MEXICO – LAND
MEXICO LAND GEOGRAPHY Mexico is found on the North American Plate, with the Pacific on its West and the Atlantic on the East and bordered by the US in the North and Belize and Guatemala in the South. It is the 13th largest country in the world and has 31 federal states. The country features a series of mountain ranges, […]
MEXICO – COUNTRY
MEXICO COUNTRY NAME The derivation of the name Mexico is, to this day, still debated. One possible explanation is that it is an ethnonym; a proper noun referring to an ethnic group. In this case, the word is derived from Mexica, the rulers of the Aztec empire. Another suggests that it’s derived from metzli; moon, and xictli; navel, meaning that […]
MEXICO – PEOPLE
MEXICO PEOPLE POPULATION With a population of around 126 million, most of the country’s people are known as Mestizos; an ethnicity referring to a mix of indigenous American and European ancestry, with other minority groups including Afro-Mexicans, White Mexicans and people from all over the world. That said, the majority of its people are united under the same national identity, […]
0.II – Go
0.II – GO I finally got to start this adventure… One I had been planning for years. First it was med school, then it was COVID, then it was work. But finally, I managed to make it happen. And finally, that day had arrived – the 3rd of August 2022. The day I’d finally get to go on a plane […]