Sunday afternoons in Tlacolula Tlacolula de Matamoros is a town just 40 minutes outside of downtown Oaxaca City. My wife spent weekends there as a child at her maternal grandmother’s house and she has many fond memories of escaping the city to go play with her cousins. Luckily o
Another side of Turkey You want to visit Turkey, but without a million sun-burned tourists and another million carpet salesmen. Consider the southeast. Here are three spots to get you thinking. Diyarbakır: Famous walls, vibrant feel Walk on top of the huge basalt walls, apparently the
Apenas durante o mês de maio trocarei Vancouver por São Paulo. São Paulo é a cidade onde nasci e cresci. É também a cidade onde passei a maior parte da minha vida. Lá moram amigos queridos. Lá está grande parte da minha família. Alegria e uma ansiedade saudável tomam conta de mim ao e
On the other side of the canola harvest This past weekend, my friend CJ and I went on an adventure to Luoping, which is about a 3.5-hour train ride away from Kunming, in Yunnan province, China. Luoping has several scenic tourist spots but is best known for its canola fields, which sna
Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden: 10,000 years of history in the middle of the city Following my last post about the Children’s Library in Oaxaca City, Mexico, I’d like to share another of my favourite places to visit in my wife’s hometown – el Jardín Etnob
Dia 5 de outubro de 2014 começam as próximas eleições no Brasil. É a grande chance de mostrar como a população está avaliando os seus representantes. É a grande chance de mover o país para a direção desejada. Ok, não é tão simples. O país é muito grande. Há problemas e aspirações dife
One of my favourite things to do in Oaxaca City In the next few months before our much needed family trip to my wife’s home town I have decided to write about some of my favourite places to visit in Oaxaca City. BS Biblioteca Infantil The Biblioteca Infantil (Children’s Li
Abre los ojos A guest post by fellow language educator, Adam Samuel. My tri-weekly run usually takes me past the fish auction house and past the salt fields Las Salinas in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, where I live, right in the south of Spain and roughly an hour from Morocco. Depending on t
É muito comum que estudantes de uma segunda língua tenham que conviver com os falsos amigos. Eu, confesso, sou sempre “desafiada” por um bando deles. Tenho que tomar muito cuidado ao me expressar em inglês, caso contrário os falsos amigos me passam a perna. Sem qualquer piedade. Enten
A Truly Intercultural Experience For the last 10 days, I have been back in the Cusco region of Peru to present the preliminary results of the research I participated in with UNICEF on Intercultural Bilingual Education. We have been back to the five schools in remote communities that w
