Screen name: 
Age: 
29
If you must know: 
I'm happily married
Travel status: 
Putting down roots
Hometown: 
Haven't decided yet.
Currently in: 
Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico
 
Favorite places I've been: 
Chiapas; Michoacan; cenotes in Tulum; aguas termales in La Gloria, Hidalgo; El Sontule in Nicaragua; Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana; lovely Jackpot, Nevada.

Places I want to go to: 
India, Slovenia, San Nicolas Island.

 
About me: 
I'm a child of the American suburbs, expatriated to Mexico (via Missoula, Montana) to marry my oaxaqueño sweetie. I'm--with jumps and starts, and, I'd like to think, occasional grace--adjusting to life in a second language. I'm a part-time English teacher, sometime-writer, and a full-time dreamer, itching to get my hands in the dirt of my new home.

 
 
 
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by GypsyNoir | 2010/02/01

I really enjoy your gorgeous writing. Respect.

by Luis Garza | 2009/12/02

Hola tere super tarde mi respuesta..
thank you very much for the compliments, i see you are married with a oxacan guy.. cool

I will do a school in quiechapa oaxaca for highschool zapotec studets
I can hardly wait to be there again and be in that fantastic place

greetings from copenhaguen
hej

Arq Luis Garza Vanaikken
www.vanaikken.com

by Ryan Van Len... | 2009/05/29

shoot, I wish i would have known. I was in Oaxaca for a week in early December. it was my first time and I loved it. The view and pozas up in the mountains where those "frozen waterfalls" are east of oaxaca are awesome. where do you stay there?

by amberlynne | 2009/05/23

Oh thats too bad. But you should let me know if you do come!
I like Pachuca, although its a little boring. I teach English and Spanish to a group of Korean kids here.
What did you do while you were here?

By Teresita  |  Location: Mexico  |  06/16/09  |  Pics: 0

Meghan is nine years old, and for the first time in her life, during her family’s stay in Mexico, lives in a house with a TV.  She’s equally entranced by “Esponja Bob Pantalones Cuadros”, telenovelas, and commercials for hemorrhoid ointment: she’ll sit with a forgotten lump of...

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By Teresita  |  Location: United States  |  03/24/09  |  Pics: 1

I had never loved a river until I lived in Montana. 

My first day in Missoula I waded out into the green flow, up above my knees.  It was late August and hot, but—I didn’t know this then—the nights up in the mountains were autumn-chilly already and the river was...

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By Teresita  |  Location: United States  |  02/25/09  |  Pics: 3

I don't miss Missoula, but I miss the cottonwoods--their leafy green reach in the summer, their startling yellow in autumn, the way the crosshatch of their bare branches against the winter sky looks from far away like mist.  I miss the rivers.  I miss walking through falling snow in the...

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