You hear my opinions and advice about this enough, so this week we have a special treatment instead. This is a guest post from my 10-year-old daughter Alina.
When we put a "for sale" signs in front of our House in the spring of 2010 and hear our daughter, we move to Guanajuato, Mexico for a year-long family Sabbatiska, she was not really proud of. She adjusted, however, and became a fluent Spanish speaker with lots of new friends in our adopted city. A year later, she has mixed feelings now goes back to the United States. So take it away Alina – what will you miss, and not miss out on this crazy country?
Things I'll miss about living in Mexico:
1) Festivals and parties all the time
2) will be able to go to lots of places
3) Mexican food (including tortas milanesas, paletas, ice cream, natural yoghurt sundaes, mocha cookies, aguas frescas, limonadas, licuados and guava juice.)
4) my school and my friends
5) interesting and cheap things to buy in the markets
6) riding on Fin Primera Plus and the OVERWHELMING VALUE of buses – they give you a snack and a drink every time!
1) Super loud music played outside most of the time
2) Chile and Limon on everything, plus odd tasting pizza
3) Garbage on the ground almost everywhere, plus poop sometimes from dogs, donkeys and horses
4) enters stairways, ramps and steep streets each day in Guanajuato
5) Mariachi music and songs with "corazon" in them
First image of Alina by Katie Clancy, second by Tim Leffel.
Related posts:
Liver life MexpatWeek in the life of an Expat WriterWhat is your excuse for not travelling? (Or really living?)The roof deck views in Guanajuato, MexicoPictures and memories from a temporary Mexpat (so far)
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