Mexican culture class

Hello to all the people who enjoy reading english.

On friday, I had class of Mexican culture. I find it interesting, it is like some fresh air in the whole academic environment.
Actually, the area of Mexico is 1 972 550 km². If we sum up the areas of Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, France and Japan, we get a bit more than Mexico's area. It is four times as big as France!



We talked about the earthquake in Peru (7.9 on the Richter scale, lasting 2 minutes) and the one which stroke Mexico city 12 years ago (8.1, lasting 3 minutes). The capital city is situated near a tecnonic plate, called "la placa de Cocos". More than that, the city is surrended by quite a lot volcanoes. They all wear names very hard to pronounce: Popocatepetl (the aztec word for Smoking mountain). It is still active and its last eruption was in...2001.

A map of the tectonic plates in the world

The Popocatepetl

Our teacher is half british, half mexicain.
His name is Diego de la Vega Wood (yeah, like Zorro).
He told us about his personal experience of nudity for a very famous photograph in Mexico. It was born thanks to Spencer Tunick, an american photographer. He asks volunteers to pose naked, in urban landscapes...On May 6th, 2007, Tunick took 5 clichés of 18 000 people naked on the Zocalo. Once more, Mexico appears like a country full of contrasts, as it was supposed to be conservative. The volunteers were not paid, but only rewarded a photograph with Tunick's autograph. They went at 4 a.m. to the Zocalo, queued up and signed a formed mentioning their agreement. Diego said that everything was done very natureally, that everyone just "popped" from their clothes. It was beautiful by the diversity of the bodies. Tall, small, dark-skinned, fat, or slim: there was no perfect bodies. Waaaw, if it was to happen in Paris, would I try? Maybe a return to human nature would not be so bad, actually.