So one more blog before I come home to visit! I'm very excited to go back home for 2 weeks and visit everyone but at the same time glad I still get to come back to Mexico! :) I looked up the weather for my homecoming and wasn't at all pleased with snow showers and 40 degree weather. Things here have been going very well, we are beginning to prepare for Presentations which will take place the week after we return from Easter Vacation. The presentations are something that Culturalingua does for the parents of the students. Every class has to prepare something- a skit, songs, etc to show the parents what they have learned. My teenagers and young adults all tell me they never show up and don't want to do it but my younger students are excited about showing off all of their English!
One another note, this past weekend we went to Sahuayo which is about 2 1/2 hours away to celebrate Jay's birthday and 2 of the teachers there also had birthdays. Sahuayo is a much bigger city and was very different than Los Reyes. It is built into the side of the mountain and is still expanding but as you walk parallel to the mountain you can just look up the streets that go straight up the mountain. It was a very cool city. On Sunday we went to get some coffee before catching the bus back and the town was just bustling. Everybody was out and about selling things, walking around and shopping. It was fun just to sit and watch the crowd. There are two English schools there and the teachers there were a lot of fun to hang out with. I'm meeting more and more people who do this for extended periods of time and all of them have been very interesting and fun to hang out with. I think everyone who travels to foreign countries to live and teach English have similar personalities and I have met some awesome people doing this so far. My parents aren't going to like this, but I can see myself traveling the world doing this! Who really knows what the future holds though! Anyways, have to keep this one short, I have to go get ready to teach, I'll see most of you next week :)
As you know - you're only young once. Take a step back and remind yourself that you're employed in a recession. Can you honestly imagine a better fit for yourself than getting paid to help others gain skills, while you get to experience other cultures, sights and experiences?! I applaud your adventures, at least until the economy recovers...Have a safe trip home!
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