Month: June 2019

Teaching in China

I have been living in China for the past four years after being hired as a Spanish teacher in the suburbs of the huge city of Shanghai. Honestly, China had really never crossed my mind as a country I wanted to visit, but the opportunity to take my teaching career to the international level came …

Guatemala

I had visited Guatemala when I was a young kid, but on that occasion, I could not appreciate their culture. I wanted to immerse myself in this country’s beautiful scenery I had seen on television and read so much about it. Over the years I had met many people from this Central American country and …

Nicaragua

After leaving the beautiful country of Costa Rica with its beautiful beaches, lush mountains, and tourists everywhere, I crossed the border into Nicaragua. The scenery had been shocking. Nicaragua was then the complete opposite of what I had seen in touristy Costa Rica, but it would be Nicaragua the country I would soon fall in …