my nice little life

Our first day of school, by now, is our first three days of school, and for me it’s been a strange experience, since I haven’t said,”Sorry, I can’t go. I have homework” in about 40 years. They start you with a test to see what level of Spanish you are. Sherry is high intermediate. I’m [...]

My Arrival in Cuernavaca Mexico for Immersion School Sherry blogs: The bus ride from the airport took two hours. Once outside of Mexico City, we started climbing toward Cuernavaca. I had forgotten that the area actually had quite a few trees (mostly pines) and didn’t look quite as dry as Oaxaca, Guanajuato or San Miguel. [...]

This is Bill writing now.  It may get a bit confusing for a while, since there will be two of us writing, but we have fairly different perspectives and writing styles.  We’ll try to identify ourselves. I leave for Mexico at 7 tomorrow morning.  I’ve never been to Mexico, so it’s exciting.  I’m not sure [...]

Sherry is doing the Blogging this time:     I made it! The trip was very easy. Good weather, no large crowds, planes running on time. No problems. The USAir plane to Mexico City wasn’t full — a sign of our economic times, I suppose.       After immigration and customs, I tried to find AeroMexico, but didn’t [...]

I spent 3 weeks in Oaxaca attending the Español Interactivo.  Here is my experience. Location & building: This school is located within a couple of blocks of the traditional Mexican city center, the zócolo.  To enter, you pass through the outside wall via two tall, beautiful wooden doors.  The doors lead to the office and [...]

  A few years ago, I sat down with my maps and books and made a list of every place we wanted to go in the world.  I was methodical.  I did it continent by continent, country by country.  I even mentioned if there were a particular adventure or activity that we wanted to see. [...]

                                             The writing is on the wall – we’ll go next year.   As you may remember, we had three choices for our Mexico trip.   A  1500 mile bus ride, two months in Queretaro studying Spanish, or a combination of the two, with studying for a much shorter period of time (and in more than [...]

Well, we’ve decided.  We’re going to spend two winter months in Querétaro, Mexico taking Spanish courses.   We really really really want to do the 1500 mile bus tour, but frankly I need the Spanish instruction.  AND we figure that the trip will be much more enjoyable if I get a little further along with Spanish.  [...]

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com Some people collect places like baseball trading cards.  They mark it off their list with a “Been there; done that” mentality.   Gee, I hope we’re not like that.  After all, we do have a list of places we want to see.  And we rarely go back to the places we really [...]

Here’s an awful thought that kept running through my mind the whole time we were in Marrakech:  Do you remember that on 9-11 the airlines stopped flying?  That people were stranded, especially Americans, all over the world, for weeks?  What if something like that had happened while we were in Marrakech?  Now, some people love [...]