If you are reading this now, chances are you’re interested in nonprofit or development work in Latin America. You may actually already be teaching English in Colombia, or working in a national park in Costa Rica, or completing your first year of the Peace Corps in Chile. And if that’s th[...]
Archive for the ‘Mexico’ Category
July 15th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Looking for Opportunity, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
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July 1st, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Mexico
100th Dive
Right, so that’s eight days in a row out the way. Eight days of work that is, not just any old random eight days. We have been doing in-water and classroom presentations most days and preparing for said presentations most evenings – tiring, challenging and at times mind-numbing, but all a wonder[...]
June 18th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in Mexico
The Buffet!
Yesterday, I took part in an activity that was not only life-threatening, but also extremely risky. No, I am not talking about the scuba diving I did (that happens every day when you are an instructor in training). No, I did something far more potentially hazardous. I went to an all-you-can-eat Amer[...]
June 10th, 2011 - 2:43 pm § in Mexico
Hands Up: Who is a Divemaster?
I wonder at which point you become an ‘expat.’ Do you think it’s just when you just live abroad? If it was only that, then Alex and I would now count as ‘expats.’ Personally I think there is more to it than that. I think you perhaps have to have a source of income to [...][...]
June 3rd, 2011 - 4:30 pm § in Mexico, Uncategorized
Tired and Ill in a Strange Land
I feel a bit up in the air. Both Alex and I have ear infections which have really taken it out of us both, and not just physically (the usual infection stuff: aching, headache, generally feeling rough etc). We have been hit financially, too – the visit to the doctor and some horse pill-sized antib[...]
May 29th, 2011 - 6:53 am § in Mexico
The Fun of Budget Eating
Everyone knows that traveling is very different to studying…but who would have thought that the studying would be so intense?!? Well, actually we knew it would be grueling at times and I guess one of the trickiest transitions has actually not been getting up at 7 a.m., then scuba diving for two ho[...]
May 20th, 2011 - 5:33 pm § in Mexico, Tips & Resources
Tired adventures in Diving
Who would have thought training to be a diving instructor would be so hard? We are well into our second week now and today we qualified as Rescue Divers. This is something that, if I wasn’t so tired, I would be over the moon about – perhaps tomorrow I will have the energy to celebrate it. As [..[...]
