Mini Break

Well, last week I was very lucky to have been granted permission to have Thursday and Fridayoff, as well as Wednesday afternoon. With my spare time, I trecked out to Colima to visit Jason and see what the job possibilities were out there.

Now when I say treck, it's not just an exageration on my part. I left my town at 2:30 so that I would make my 4:00 bus from Juchitan (pronounced Hoo-chy-tan...yeah, I thought it was funny too). Juchitan is a much larger city than my Ixtepec so more buses go from there.

Instead of waiting til 7:55pm and going straight to Mexico, I caught a 4pm bus to Oaxaca City and then a 9:15pm bus to Mexico City's Northern terminal at 3am. I then took another bus to Guadalajara and got in at 12:30pm. Here I became very disoriented by the sheer size of the bus station, so, Oscar, my new friend with the ETN bus company walked me across the parking lot to where I would catch the bus. We chatted a bit and he established that Jason should be the one visiting me, not the other way around. A good man that Oscar was, if only he knew Ixtepec, he might have changed his tune. Eventually I got to Colima, riding in on a bus that had headphones, music, pillows, sandwiches and two bathrooms.

I got to spend two nights and two full days with Jason which were wonderful (yay!) and while he was at work Friday, I went around Colima trying to find some work. I have already been hired to teach French at a language academy and they are trying to get me some English classes as well. I am also in the running for a coordinator's position at a high school, but they would want me to stay later so I am thinking about that. Then there are at least two positions that I have been offered in Guadalajara (3 hours away), but I am not so sure about those because they are far and Guad (as we call it here :p) is one of the three largest cities in Mexico, and I don't know if this small town girl can handle it.

I had to leave Saturday night and it was so hard because I really didn't want to go back to Ixtepec, but I did want to get my work done, which will be mainly the end of this week and then it will jst be tutoring my students who have exra exams and then the 15th is my last day here...WOO-HOO!