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...really just the stalling, I think, that landed me in the slow group. I didn't like being a member of the slow group. It brought back bad memories of having a gym teacher yell that skipping is "a jump and a hop." Which, I still argue, it isn't. Either way, it's not what you want to be thinking about when you're going 70 m.p.h. through a hairpin and you're 5 in. from the ground...
There are ways, however, in which Comitan is like life back home. I exercise daily at a gym; I eat Quaker Instant Oatmeal; I can have my photos developed in an hour; I can check my e-mail daily. American marketing is everywhere. Coca-Cola (a.k.a. "Coca") and Pepsi have made inroads to even the most remote towns--towns which still do not have running water. (I even visited a Mayan village where the bubbly has been incorporated into a sacred healing ceremony.) If you walk through Comitan in the late afternoon, you can hear the loud cheers...
...gym, a friend of mine who worked there says, 'I'd pay you to make my meals for me,'" Pappas recalls. After the encounter, his healthy cuisine appealed to so many hungry customers that he started running a business out of his home...
...other partner, Joeliana Chin, is a fitness professional. Pappas says that he hopes to someday open a gym adjoining the restaurant. He predicts this combination would attract a large crowd of athletes looking for a healthy snack after the bench press or Stairmaster...
When I was young in the Dark Ages, I played field hockey with a stick that had duct tape around its base. The nun who coached us would pin up her long blue sleeves, hold an instruction manual in front of her and pray. We sewed numbers on old gym suits to make them look like uniforms, while the guys wore miracle-fabric football jerseys over molded plastic sufficient to protect them in the event of a nuclear attack...