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If you want a roof re shingled, tree planted, sprinkler system installed, it will likely done via Mexican labor. The owner of the nursery where we bought some specialty trees told me the fellows from Oaxaca were the most loyal, dependable and hardest working men he had ever seen. We have rocky ground and very little top soil, so when the lads put in the sprinkler (draws from Lake of the Ozarks) they dug the trenches with picks. And they didn't waste any time. My first visit to Mexico was in 1966 in high school. I took a summer session in Spanish and Mexican culture at the Tech in Monterrey. I went down with 30 or so kids on a big bus from Kirksville, Missouri. It lasted six weeks and we stayed in the dorm on campus and had our chow at their cafeteria. I had cabrito at El Tio's in Monterrey. It was either delicious or maybe it was the XX... We took a trip to Saltio and a couple other cities nearby. Took the city bus from the campus to downtown and had a lot of fun. Mexican girls were interested in us. They wanted to learn English. Us guys had other ideas. A kid from Oklahoma almost got us thrown in jail one evening when he pulled down a big electric switch on the outside wall of the local police station and shut down all the street lights in a five block area. Close call but one of our instructors happened by at the right moment and explained the gringo kids were not trying to start a revolution.