Teresita
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by Luis Garza | 2009/12/03
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 Lenning | 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 | 2009/05/24
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 amberlynne | 2009/05/23
Hi! I just happened to come across your profile and reading your blog, I saw that you're in Pachuca, too! How long have you been here?
by Kelley Jonkoff | 2009/04/27
Thanks for the add and welcoming me to Matador! I still need to get familiar with the place, as you can tell by my lack of activity.
I'm really enjoying your blog. Keep it up! :)
by katsunlove | 2009/04/03
Hola Teresita - Thanks for the friend add and the welcome. How funny that you should know where Cool is... it's pretty small. But we like it out here a lot. Still, my wanderlust pushes me to travel... unemployment makes that a challenge financially. ;-) So we turn to travel writing! So far, we've sold a story to our local newspaper and they also have taken on as stringers so we should gather some credits there for our travel writing career.
How are you liking Mexico? We think of semi-retiring there but the drug problems seem so severe right now, we hesitate. (Plus, the fact we can't sell our house right now... ) We've also looked at Costa Rica. Have you been to Nicaragua? It seems like a possibility too... Adios... y buena suerte! Kat
Profile Full Bio
Birthday:
11/13
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.
Why I travel
I'm looking for a place to stay put.
Before I die I'd like to
Plant trees. Call someplace HOME, and mean it. Sing karaoke.
Sports I do
walking around, throwing little kids up in the air, getting where I need to go
I want to make a difference by
creating space. writing. getting my hands dirty.
Tunes I rock out to
A little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Favorite books
The Anthropology of Turquoise, Island of the Blue Dolphins, 1491, Caramelo, Grass and The Gate to Women's Country and The Family Tree by Sherri Tepper, anything by Mary Oliver, To Kill a Mockingbird
Other Languages:
Spanish. A teeny but growing bit of Nahuatl. And a mean Pig Latin.
Favorite Quote:
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." --Virginia Woolf
"Where we are—the place we occupy, however briefly—has everything to do with what and who we are…. Where you are right now is not a matter of indifference but affects the kind of person you are, what you have been doing in the past, even what you will be doing in the future."
—Edward S. Casey
“Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.” —Hesse
Favorite Places:
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:
India, Slovenia, San Nicolas Island.
Travel Blog
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06/16/2010 3
The rains are late, by over a month. Our friend Rosaura’s mother is visiting from the Sierra Juarez; there, she says, with the threadbare sadness of someone who no longer bothers to hope that things will go well, all the rain-fed milpas have died for lack of water, all the work of tilling and...
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04/11/2010 Mexico 0
When my neighbor Luis, who's 11 and somehow or other always knows what's what in Tlacochahuaya, informs me that there's nobody in the market because "they're going to crucify a guy later", it takes me a second. ...It's Good Friday.
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06/17/2009 Mexico 5
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...
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11/21/2008 Mexico 3
I’ve dragged Michigan around my whole life.
As the place of my birth, it turns up on every form I fill out, my security question for on-line accounts, on my passport and my FM2 and my teaching contract and my marriage certificate. Yet I have no conscious...
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03/24/2009 United States 2
I had never loved a river until I lived in <?xml:namespace prefix =" st1" />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...
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02/25/2009 United States 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...
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01/21/2009 Mexico 5
In San Jose, there's The Roller Skating Guy.
In <?xml:namespace prefix =" st1" />Santa Cruz, there’s The Cranky Lady with the Pink Dreads.
In Missoula, there’s The Guy Who Parks His Huge, Smelly Dogs...
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12/19/2008 Mexico 3
Atl: water.
Yolo: heart.
Nechmaka atl: give me water.
Nechmaka moyolotsi: give me your heart.
Gilberto’s friend David is...
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10/13/2008 Mexico 6
“So you stole her?” Gil asks, his eyes round. I lean forward on the bench.
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10/08/2008 Mexico 2
I was sitting in the teachers’ room yesterday, pouting because I didn’t want to be at work when the sun had finally come out, when the school receptionist, Raul, walked in. He flopped on the couch and asked me: “Who invented work?” He smiled as he said it, but...
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