I’m finished the CELTA. I passed. Now, exhausted, I will look for work. Tomorrow I’m heading for Queretaro, then Guadalajara and Morelia. I am very excited about seeing new places in Mexico.
The CELTA is certainly a great idea for anyone interested in teaching. It is interesting, practical, and made me feel pretty prepared to [...]
Five days until CELTA course is over. This course is much more stressful than a Masters ever was.
I like teaching… while this might not be what I do forever, I’m gonna give it a whirl for awhile.
Big decisions come next.
First decision: stay in Mexico?
I love Latin America, and I’d really love to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Posted 19 January 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 January 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 14 January 2010
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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 [...]
I know, I know, I know.
I was in Mexico the last five days. It was a “stamp my passport to avoid being an illegal immigrant” trip, and ended up being extended because my traveling companion fell ill.
I didn’t bring my laptop or a camera.
It was beautiful.
My friend and I went to San [...]
Already back in Guatemala after a short little trip to Mexico with a couple friends. Just went out to a cantina to have a couple beers with a friend. As the only foreigners in the three-table bar, I felt a bit out of place… but let me tell you it is great to go somewhere [...]
Crossing the Mexico-Guatemala border, things change.
On the Guatemalan side, the road zigs and zags. It couldn’t be more than 150 kilometers from Quetzaltenango to the frontera, but the journey takes about four hours. All because of the terrifyingly curvy highway that makes road travel in Guatemala so slow.
On the Mexican side, the road [...]
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Posted 03 August 2009
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