My name is Raul Sierra, I was born in Toluca, a small city 75Km West of
Mexico City. I'm 32 years old, 1.85 meters tall, weigh 65 kilograms, I
have dark brown eyes and black straight hair. As a boy and even in my
twenties I used to be skinny, but lately I've began gainning some
weight, so at last my grandmother tells me I'm chubby and would
probably pinch my cheeks if she could stand taller. As a kid my mom
would urge me to eat more and I used to feel stuffed just after eating
half my meals, but now that I get to go home each other weekend, I ask
her to feed me at all time, so she gets mad and yells at me "Stop
eating! I don't have anything else in the fridge!"
It's strange how people describe me when they meet me for the first
time. Most of them use the following adjectives:
Cautious
Intelligent
Profound
Studious
Serious
Intellectual
Friendly
Peaceful
Patient
Funny
Loner
Easy to get along with
Toluca is one of the highest places in Mexico, at 2,680 meters above
sea
level. The weather is strange and unpredictable to say the least:
sometimes the sky is clear in the morning and at noon the dry heat is
unbearable; then, in the evening, dark and dense clouds cover the sky
and it starts raining, sometimes just a little and a few others it's
like a big thunderstorm or probably hail, or it can be the all the way
around. The fact is you never know whether to carry a winter jacket, or
an umbrella, or shorts and a T-shirt. Weather's so crazy I remember the
volcano, commonly refered to as "El Nevado de Toluca", being completely
covered in snow in
the summer, and clean in winter. I remember it snowed back in the 90's,
and that was the first and last time in my life I saw snowflakes.
On July 18 2006 I moved again, this time farther from home, to a city
named Aguascalientes (literally "Hot Springs") 350 Kms North-East of
Queretaro. I started working at Softtek, one of the biggest IT
companies in Mexico. I was lucky to find an apartment downtown.
