Remember when you have a flower in your hair? Don’t do that again because it make me crazy. You look so so so beautiful.
Okay, maybe I should be creeped out by getting love letters from students, but actually I think it’s completely adorable. There’s nothing sweeter than corny lines written in broken English.
Halfway [...]
1. Volcanoes. Sure, I know there are some volcanoes quite close to Mexico City, but I certainly can’t see them. In fact, I can’t even see the surrounding mountains, only a yellow haze on the horizon. I grew quite attached to some of Guatemala’s volcanoes, even though I didn’t climb any of them (besides Pacaya, [...]
It turns out that I really like teaching English. I’m still not great at it, and I still get shaky when I get up in front of a class, but I really like it. It’s fun, it’s challenging, and it’s engaging. Above all, it’s wonderful to do a job that takes place, for the most [...]
I don’t tend to get homesick. Really. I make friends easily wherever I am, and while I will always miss specific people who are important to me, I don’t get homesick or lonely very often.
I guess I am a bit out of my element right now, because I am too busy in my course [...]
While adjusting to my new home, I am not forgetting to miss Guatemala.
Mayan women and girls in Pujujil, Solola:
Teenagers hanging out in Xela’s central park:
The view of Xela from El Baul:
The beach at Champerico:
Beautiful Lake Atitlan, sadly contaminated by cyanobacteria algae:
Xela’s cemetery, with a view of Volcano Santa Maria:
It seems that most people – even those that love to travel – have no interest in visiting Mexico City.
This might be because most people’s vision of Mexico consists of two things: Either the white-sand beaches of packaged holiday dreams, or the dirty, dangerous Mexico City slums portrayed in movies like Amores Perros. Nothing [...]
Boy, I have never felt so much like a country bumpkin.
I have finished relocating from Quetzaltenango in Guatemala to Mexico City. On Saturday I flew into the city (cheaper than taking the bus!) I was picked at the airport by someone from International House, the school at which I will be taking the CELTA [...]
I am in San Cristobal de las Casas right now for the fourth time. It has sort of become by home away from home away from home.
I have a cold (yes, I am a walking health disaster) so I am taking it easy.
In celebration of being back in San Cristobal, why not take [...]
I have no problem with anyone’s sexual lifestyles. That is, as long as people are consensual, honest and take relatively good precaution to avoid spreading diseases around this not-very-healthy world of ours, I think people should just do whatever makes them happy. The sex lives of others should be their own business.
That said, something [...]
“The sad part of living overseas is that people come and go all the time,” I said.
“There’s a solution to that,” my friend replied. “Only make friends with locals, not foreigners.”
That’s easier said than done.
Any person living abroad presumably wants to form and strengthen meaningful friendships with local people in their adopted country. [...]
