Turn on a Mexican radio station, walk down a Mexican street, and you’re likely to hear American music. But not just any American music. Bad American music. The very worst of the 70s and 80s, plus today’s top teeny-bopper hits. Basically, if it has a catchy beat and no soul, it has an excellent chance of […]

One could be tempted into judging the quality of an English teacher in Mexico by such silly metrics as devotion to the job, quality of work, and detail of planning.
But my colleagues at school have come up with something much better: The best teacher is the one who got the most presents for Dia del Maestros […]

A couple of weeks back, I put out my list of Five Things Mexicans Could Teach Americans. This week, the gringos are returning the favor. Enjoy.
(1.) How to govern. Let on to an American that you are a political science major, and they will snicker and ask what you do with that in the “real […]

(NOTE: Five things Americans Could Teach Mexicans is put off for a week, due to the following breaking holiday news.)
You may have never heard of it, but Children’s Day is an official, UN-sanctioned world holiday. It is even celebrated in the United States, but nobody seems to give a rip about it.
“Every day is children’s day,” I can hear the […]