Articles related to: mexico
26: Boycott Chinese and Buy Mexican
Bad Boy China is finally ticking off the sensitive diversity folks in my barrio. Somehow lead contaminated products were easier to take; after all, lead kills slowly. Lead is not nearly as dramatic as..
27: Puerto Escondido - for Surfing, Hiking, Learning, and Living Well
Puerto Escondio, in Oaxaca, Mexico, sits on one of the most famous surfing beaches in Mexico. This was once a small fishing village even before the Spanish conquest, but it is now home to over 20,000 ..
28: Want To Retire Or Work In Mexico? You'd Better Read This!
Let me shoot straight from the hip. No fancy introductions to this article, no witty sayings, no clever expressions, no wildly used adjectives. Just plain talk about what you will find if you are plan..
29: Puffy Wet Lips
There's this guy who lives across the street from us who we have renamed Wet Lips. When we are in a really lighthearted mood, we refer to him as Puffy Wet Lips. This gomer is in his late 60's to early..
30: Want To Succeed At Writing? You Need A Platform!
When I finished my book, "The Plain Truth about Living in Mexico," I sent queries to a number of publishers. On a lark, I queried McGraw-Hill. To my utter shock and awe, they wanted to look at the com..
31: Cyberstalking Is A Worldwide Problem
I live in a medium-sized central Mexican town called Guanajuato. Guanajuato is the capital of the state of Guanajuato. We moved here in 2003 for a multitude of reasons. We wanted to learn Spanish, liv..
32: How To Make Your Trip To Copper Canyon Mexico Easier
You’ve probably heard about the train trip through Copper Canyon in Mexico. The Chihuahua Pacifico, “El Chepe†for short, is the only passenger train in Mexico. It winds its way t..
33: Hello From Mexico City – First Impressions
After a few very hectic days before my departure I got up at 4:30 am yesterday and my husband drove me to the airport. Since my flight was with Delta Airlines and had a stopover in Atlanta, I had to g..
34: Hello From Cuernavaca: Attending The Monthly Meeting At The Newcomers Club
This morning I got up early and had a nice breakfast in the inner courtyard of La Nuestra. Shortly before 9 am Andie and I left for her monthly meeting of the Newcomers Club, a group of about 170 most..
35: Hello From Cuernavaca - The Most Intense Day Of My Trip (Part II)
The Santa Maria area is a rather poor area and was an independent village prior to being gobbled up by Cuernavaca. We parked the car and hiked down into a barranca (ravine) with a river at the bottom...
36: Hello From Cuernavaca - The Most Intense Day Of My Trip (Part I)
I have a habit of cramming a few too many things into my schedule, and I think yesterday was such a day.I started my day with a nice breakfast and then took a taxi to the Cetlalic language school. Cet..
37: Don't Declare War: Opine!
It is very interesting to note how someone responds to what I've written about Gringolandia and its inhabitants, Gringolandians. Almost without exception, the usual screed in response to what I've alw..
38: Guanajuato: Too Many False Expectations
A friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a person she knows in one of the Mexican Prime Living Locations on the west coast of Mexico. This area, one to which many Americans flock, ha..
39: Hello From Cuernavaca - An Excursion To Las Estacas
After a beautiful breakfast in the garden at Roxana’s place with Helga, the young lab with shiniest black coat, dancing all around me, I went to my private tutoring session at the Ideal Language Sch..
40: There's No Reality, Only Perceptions
It has occurred to me lately just how the filters through which we see and read events determine how we evaluate and react to them. The phrase, "You look at the world through rose-colored glasses" is ..
41: The Gringolandizing Of Mexico-pt 1
The literature that exists in book form and especially in online newsletters and magazines presents to the "Move-To-Mexico Wannebee" Mexico as an Image and not Mexico as it Really Is.I found an excell..
42: Living In Mexico: Fight Well, Love Better
Though a conservative, I read liberal points of view. I do so for two reasons. One, their views help me refine my own. The second reason is that I owe it to "the other side" to be able to fairly and a..
43: Living In Mexico: Gringolandia Denial
I cannot begin to imagine what life must be like in isolated little enclaves where the inhabitants have only one another for socializing. In areas like Guanajuato that still have such few Gringolandia..
44: Mentor For Hire Services Eases Your Move To Mexico
Sometimes I marvel at how my wife and I arrived in Guanajuato, Mexico, with so little Spanish and with so few cultural skills. Somehow we managed to survive some pretty severe bumps in the expatriatio..
45: Living In Mexico: Where Did That Bus Driver Go?
Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more than one occasion called me an absolute liar ..
46: Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 6
Most folks, when they set out to study a new language, begin by enrolling in Spanish I at their local Junior College. This is not the way to begin. In fact, the formal learning about the language in a..
47: How to Cook Maya Tepeizcuinte (Paca Jungle Rat)
In aspiring to the quest of a free and inquiring mind I often get exposed to the unexpected and sometimes exotic. Such was my brush with Tepe. I have a few Tepes on my jungle ranch and, along with..
48: Living In Mexico: Confessions Of An Insane Gringo
Let me first say that whether or not I am actually insane could be debated. However, my personal pendulum tends to swing toward the yes column. So, there you go, my first confession.The second confess..
49: Learning Spanish Has Never Been Easier
Mnemonic memory training is a memory system that allows you to store information in and recall it from your long-term memory, and, in the case of learning a new language, your speech center. Mnemonics..
50: Learning Spanish Part Twenty-one: Why Talk About Methods?
My purpose in this series (which I failed to make clear, apparently, from the beginning) has been to do two things. One is to show the progression of second language acquisition instruction in its his..
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