Hello again from Mancora. We hope that you are all safe and sound and getting ready for Christmas. It will be very different for us to celebrate here away from you all and away from the snow. We returned from Ecuador after leaving to renew our visa and ourselves a little. It felt like we were coming home and it was a welcome sight to see places and faces that we knew. The next month after returning was extremely busy. We were planning our Adult classes an...

Hello from sunny South America! It's getting hotter and hotter here as it gets cooler and cooler there! Weird that Christmas is just around the corner when we are heading into the heat of summer....we feel like we are in an odd little bubble here and can't quite track the time. But, when we take time to calculate the time, we realize that we have been here in Mancora nearly four months already! We even had a weepy moment the other day thinking of leaving al...

So, don't you ever get tired of those days when you have to always put your shoes on to walk around your house or your feet will turn black from all the dirt? And when you have to constantly fill your 500 ml water bottle with bottled drinking water from the big jug in the kitchen so that you can brush your teeth without getting sick? And don't you ever get tired of seeing men urinate on their homes outside of your window? And what about all of the ants crawlin...

Hey there amigos!Hope life is treating everyone well back home.We are getting into the groove here and it is now spring!We are really enjoying our adult English class ALOT (the kids, not so much!) and it gives us a chance to connect to some adults here too from all walks of life. I think I'd really like to pursue teaching ESL more seriously once we get back to Canada....I really love it. We are getting along pretty well with the other volunteer and have also st...

Hola once again from dusty, hot and sunny Mancora! Well, we've been continuing to have quite the experience here and have managed to find ourselves just as busy now as we were in Edmonton! Hopefully it's just a craze for a bit while we write curriculum for everything we are doing and then it will settle in to the slower pace that the Mancorians seem to have found. We haven't written for a while, so if you plan to read this blog entry, it might be worth your w...