Blogs from La Condesa, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North America - page 2

Change----for some it may mean fear---for others it can mean opportunity! Mary, a former ASF employee, now Executive Director of English Publishing with a company called Santillana International was delighted when told that Linda was no longer teaching. She arranged to meet with us. Linda was very excited to be offered a job authoring teacher guides and student activities. Using existing novels, she'll be creating materials more in line with the IB approach to teaching and making use of modern technology! We will both be able to work on this from anywhere in the world, from our home computer. Learning Spanish was high on our agenda now that we are retired. Friends had been to Spanish classes in Oaxaca and had stayed with a family while there. They highly recommended we give it a try, and ... read more

Hello there! How´s it going? Box of tissues at the ready? The time has indeed come for my final blog of the trip, so if things get a bit emotional then don´t say I didn´t warn you. Since I last wrote we´ve been in Mexico, where we started off in Tulum, which looking back has probably been our favourite spot in the country. The beaches all along the Caribbean coast have been fairly spectacular but for me Tulum will probably have to go down as my favourite of the entire trip. I´d try and explain how good the colour of the water was to you, but there just aren´t any words I´m afraid. After Tulum things became a little less backpackery and a lot more touristy as we encountered the holiday resorts that this part of ... read more

After such a nice restful week-end away, we settled back into the school routine, up at 5:30AM, and to bed about 9:30. Oh, we are now an hour ahead of Saskatoon, so we shut down the computer about 9-9:30 our time which shuts down our communications. We do have cell phones though, and actually text quite a few people from home. On Wednesday, May 11th, ASF held their annual Teacher Appreciation Day which meant that any teachers who wished to participate could take a bus immediately after school to a hall just across the street from the Auditorio Nacional in Polanco. After being at the Auditorio Nacional for the symphony, we were pleased to at least we know where we were in the city. The hall is a Casino and it was beautifully decorated to match ... read more

What a wonderful surprise! My daughter, Leslie, is working with a company that has a clinic in Tijuana, and they decided to fly her in to spend a week at the clinic. So she called and said "What would it cost to fly from Tijuana so that I could come and see you for a few days?" Two weeks later, I met her at the airport Wednesday evening and we cabbed home and got her settled in. Her goal, she said, was not to rest but to see all she could in the four days she had here. So Thursday morning, with that in mind,we were off to Chapultepic Park and a visit to the castle, the only Royal Castle in the American Continent What a huge and grand fortress it is. Now the National Museum ... read more

After being in Saskatoon for Christmas, we enjoyed just being home here in DF in January. But now, time to go again!Fran and Jo Anne, teacher buddies, had never been to Morelia and we finally found a place they have not visited yet. So off we went, leaving from the bus depot at Observatorio, which is close to the school. We thought the buses we have been riding were comfortable, but for only 50 pesos more, we chose to ride with ETN, the luxury line that charges a bit more and gives way more. Wow, seats were so big that they were only 3 across and the bus can only carry 26 passengers so we had an extra foot of space between rows. Wi-Fi, TV, and games were on a remotely controlled screen on the back ... read more