Healthy Glow: Healthy Eating, La Mode & Ramblings
It is Labor Day here in Mexico and I am spending the day trying to narrow down my next diplomatic posting. I have to pick 30 different international jobs from a list that has 522 jobs. I leave Mexico in August 2014, but the Department of State says it is time for me to mentally wrap my mind around going somewhere else.
As soon as I know where I am going and what job I am going to have for August 2014-August 2018, I will let you know!
One of my favorite things about living in Mexico is the food. For the past year I have been living in the DC area and I could never find really good Mexican food! But now that I am going on my sixth week living in Mexico, great eats are literally on every corner. I usually eat breakfast, lunch, and the majority of my dinners at home.
But there is NO way I could leave this food heaven, without at least going out and eating!
Two weekends ago a group of friends and I headed out to Los Arcos on Paseo triunfo de la republica No. 2220Col. Partido Romero C.P. 32030 Cd., Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
According to the food reviewer at El Paso Times, “The restaurant has what might be the best seafood on either side of the border.” When I told my boyfriend I just had the best seafood ever, like, in my whole life…He stated, “In MEXICO?!”
Yes, in Mexico.
The ceviche is fresh, the tres leches cake is sweet and is the perfect dessert to share, and their shrimp dishes are to die for! I had the avocado shrimp that makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
“Los Arcos specializes in made-to-order seafood dishes.” The service is quick and thoughtful. And to top it all off, the restaurant has this freshly baked garlic bread that is hot, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
There shrimp cevice via.
Just a sampling of their mouthwatering seafood.
Lucky enough for my readers inside and outside of Mexico, they have locations everywhere! Visit their website!
Healthy Glow Travel: I’m in Quito! ( Estoy en Quito!)
Hey all! I am currently in Quito, Ecuador practicing my Spanish skills and living in the middle of the city of with an awesome family. I have simple goals for my time here: no using English at all. My first day of classes was awesome. Everyday I have four hours of individual study which include: presentations, reading, speaking, and going over grammar.
I am already exhausted but I know it will all be worth it! Off to explore the city more with my colleagues.
FYI: This trip is self-funded. Not a penny of U.S. funds were used.
For Your Information: Black Africans in Libya Live in Fear
My International Culture: Jo’burg Fashion Week
I die.
My International Culture: Living in Emergency, Doctors Without Borders
“Living in Emergency…goes beyond the adrenaline and drama to show what these far-flung doctors encounter daily—blood and pain and panic, certainly, but also their own doubts and wavering faith. What am I doing here? and Who am I actually saving? are some of the soul-searching questions that linger in the air…”
—Anderson Tepper, Vanity Fair
I don’t know if many of you know, but I am currently a graduate student studying International Affairs. Since I have so many interests, during these past few years I haven’t been able to really find any one topic to hold my interests. I have SO many interests so graduate school has really been a time where I am pushing myself to really get a better understanding of what motivates me, what I like and what drives me to act.
At the end of 2010, I decided that I wanted to focus specifically on health and humanitarian assistance. Yes, it has been very challenging. I just know that these topics interest me, but beyond that, I have no experience at all. One of my favorite and most challenging classes, Major Diseases in Global Health (MDGH), pushes me the most. Today, my MDGH professor, Chiara LePora, (she is the red headed doctor featured in the film) a current medical practitioner and former Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières volunteer recently showed a documentary entitled, “Living in Emergency.” It really touched me and I realized that global health is a topic that I hope to cultivate a serious interest in. I suggest that you check it out. For more information visit the documentary website.
My International Culture: Global tour of school lunches.
I had pasta salad and baked potatoes. What did you have for lunch?
(via npr)
Beijing, Dec 27 (DPA) China has invited South Africa to become the fifth member of the informal group of major developing economies that also consists of Brazil, India and Russia, its foreign ministry said Monday.
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi telephoned his South African counterpart, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to relay the news that the BRIC group had agreed to include South Africa in future meetings, the ministry said on its website.
The ministry statement said President Hu Jintao had sent a formal invitation letter to South African President Jacob Zuma via the South African ambassador to Beijing.
Yang was quoted as saying that China believed South Africa’s participation would ‘promote the development of BRIC and enhance the cooperation of emerging market economies’.
China now holds the rotating chairmanship of the group, which held its first leaders summit in the Russian city of Yakaterinburg in June 2009. Zuma visited all four BRIC nations this summer.
My Ghanaian Culture: Ghanaian Fashion Models Kesewa and Adwoa Aboah…
Also featured are Ghanaian/English sisters Kesewa and Adwoa Aboah. The London born sisters are quickly making an impact on U.S. soil. 16-year-old Kesewa loves fashion. She hopes to study art, philosophy and photography. Big sis, 18-year-old Adwoa, is signed with Storm Models in London. This natural redhead is definitely making waves. It’s no shock that they’re keeping up with family business. Their mother, Camilla Lowther, owns the infamous CLM agency that represents photographers, stylists, makeup-artists, hairstylists and manicurists. Their father, Charles Aboah, owns a location scouting company for editorials, campaigns, film, etc.
For Your Information: The Economist’s Daily chart: Recession Hits Young Workers Hard
In rich countries workers aged 15-24 are far more likely to be unemployed than older colleagues. Spain has the highest youth-unemployment rate: at 42% it is more than twice the unemployment rate of adults aged 25-54.
(via theeconomist)
