Spring
We have had nothing but rain for a few weeks and it has been a big change from the wonderful weather we had over the winter. I feel really tired and I am looking forward to the spring break on Friday. I shall be heading off to Santa Cruz with David to a beach house that my friend Rita has lent us. I haven’t had time to do any traveling in the US since my trip to Santa Monica last August and the meeting in Little Rock AR in October.
So far school has been great. In my basic writing class the students have a fairly good level of English and they seem to enjoy writing their papers online. I managed to raise money to buy cameras through
One of my most dedicated students,
In my critical thinking class we had an interesting debate on abortion. It was interesting to hear the different points of view from students from the different cultural and socio economic backgrounds. I am really impressed by the power religion still has on my students in the USA. I think one of the reflection that struck me most came from a Mexican student who claimed that American youth was infantilized and that in her country having a child at a young age, working and being poor was possible and kind of normal. The rest of the class kind of agreed on the fact that it was best to be able to have control over one’s body and life.
The most difficult thing for me here is still probably the fact of not being able to go where I want whenever I want. Some places are really dangerous and it is true that it really refrains my photographic safaris around here.
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