"When you’ve been on a few foreign postings, you start to develop a routine of sorts once you get to a new place," writes Patrick Anidjar a few months after becoming bureau chief in Mexico.
"You take your bearings, make your way through the bureaucracy as you apply for residency, soak everything in and see if the stereotypes you’ve heard are true."
"When I arrived in Mexico, in addition to my things, my bike, my guitar, I also had quite a bit of cliches -- Mexico is violent, the air is horrid, the roads deadly, earthquakes too frequent, corruption omnipresent and Mexicans… well, it depends if you’re talking about cartel members or not."
