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La Mera Mera is slang for “Big Boss Lady.”
My first ‘Profe,’ Eduardo, taught us this word.
I knew instantly that my host mom is La Mera Mera. I knew my host family wouldn’t be expecting it when I dropped the palabra-bomb. My host mom laughed and laughed. The next day, she…
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I’m an American woman, a Gen Y-er, a reflective feminist and an Independent. I am in a new country on a different continent. Why are the deeply rooted issues of my own culture intensified now that I am in a new one? Racism, gender roles, the pitfalls of capitalism and…
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Paciencia.
I need paciencia with the pace of culture, paciencia with learning Spanish, paciencia with my life direction, with jogging slowly instead of sprinting. So much patience required here.
The pace here is hardly comparable to the US, except to say that they are opposites.
The art of greeting, instruction, conversation, and…
All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.