I'm back!

Back to blogging...

Hi!

It's been a while! I stepped away from Life in My Mexico and now I've started blogging again, focusing on professional topics that I'm most passionate about, like learning, tech, and languages.

Check out my new blog here , follow me on Twitter at @AlmaRinasz, and make sure to like my new Facebook page  (@laguaremexico).

Reach out! I love having conversations about learning, living in Mexico, languages, technology and MOOCs.

Hope to hear from you soon!
Love,
Alma
aka La Güare

A.M. Rinasz-new website and bilingual blog

Broken hearts, broken bones and lots and lots of SEXY!

It's been a year of firsts. 

My first divorce, first operation, and first broken bone. In May, my husband of over twelve years and I divorced. Then in mid-October, I broke my foot. In between these firsts, some other, more interesting and dramatic firsts took place in my life.

Perhaps one day, I will turn all my juicy, racy, sexy stories about a reformed housewife, turned single mother, making her way in one of the most notorious narco-states in modern day Mexico, into a New York Times bestseller, but in the meantime, I need a break. 

And since 2014 was so full of plots twists and turns, I need to take a rest, and that includes this blog.

I'll still be writing, at El Silabario and Expat Island, but for now, I won't be publishing anymore to Life in My Mexico. Feel free to dash off an email to me, if the thought of no longer reading posts to this blog upsets you greatly. My email is dushka.rinasz@gmail.com

And believe me, my most heartfelt wish for you and yours: 2014 was a real bitch, here's to 2015 being f-ing awesome!

Love and peace-
La Güare (aka Alma)

Getting the Most out of Morelia's Film Fest

With each passing year, El Festival Internacional de Morelia (FICM) grows in reputation and Twitter followers.  Here are some insider tips to get the most out of Morelia’s Film Fest (October 17th to the 26th).

Tickets, tickets, tickets

There are several ways to get tickets, directly online at Morelia's Film Fest's official site,  Cinepolis Centro or Plaza Las Americas.  You can buy a cinebono: 4 tickets for $140MXN at Centro and Las Americas but you still have to exchange each ticket for a ticket to the particular film you want to see.  There are also free screenings, the first slated on the program is Roberto Galvadon's 1947 La Diosa Arrodillada in Plaza Benito Juarez. Events programmed in Patzcuaro, a real gem in Michoacan's repertoire of colonial towns, also appear on the festival's official website.

Cinepolis Centro FICM 2013

"The Most"

Time to spare before the film starts? Want to run casually into or rub elbows with actors, directors, producers, glitterati inc. who are also at FICM? Make sure you hangout downtown, past party venues have included La Casa Grande, defunct restaurant La Conspiracion, and Palacio de Gobierno, where this year's inaugural party is most likely to take place. 

Past party sites and celebrity sightings include local hot spots like Tata Mezcaleria (rumors have that Tata has already been reserved for several production parties), El Abrevadero, SAK and La Monina (usefully located across the street from Cinepolis Centro), El Jardin de las Rosas, Los Portales where you can find one of Morelia's most talked about restaurants, Lu, located in Hotel Casino. 

Last year I ran into Alfonso Cuaron at Casa Grande. Visit its sister business, Trico, a delicatessen/restaurant,  for coffee, desert, tasty food or a drink at the sidewalk cafe

El Abrevadero (watering trough) is where you can find several of Morelia's bars, cantinas, eateries and night clubs

However,  the best answer I've heard so far as to how to get the most out of FICM came from a local resident and former FICM collaborator (who shall remain anonymous).  How can you get the most out of Morelia's Film Fest? "See all the films you can.

Which film did you enjoy seeing the most? Who did you run into at FICM? Share your comments here below.