Today I went to Characato with a fellow English teacher and one of my adult students. Characato is a small village and farming community on the outskirts of Arequipa, and it took about 40 minutes to get there travelling by two separate “combis.” Combis are the public transportation system here in Arequipa and in […]
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El Peluquero – The Barber
My Dad will be 84 years old in a few months, and as far as I know he still cuts hair occasionally … which means that he has been a barber for close to 60 years. Obviously, I didn´t have to pay for a haircut until after I left home at age 18 to […]
Montezuma´s Revenge
Montezuma was Emperor of the Aztec Empire in modern day Mexico from 1502 to 1520, and he was in power when the Spanish began their conquest of the Aztec lands. And since no one likes to see their country overrun by foreign invaders, evidently Montezuma is committed to forever seeking revenge on us foreigners who […]
My Journey to Peru
My journey to Peru started on Thursday night when Maple and I left Prescott to travel to Phoenix in order to spend the night with family. Sheri was in Orlando on business travel. The next morning Maple stayed in Phoenix, and I drove our car to the airport and parked it in long-term parking where […]
Crowd Source a Spanish English Vocab Builder
Linguists are the really smart people that study human language, and many of them believe that the 3000 most common words in a language make up 90% of the content we experience on a daily basis. Moreover, once we understand those 3000 most common words, we can understand the general context of whatever we might […]