May 26, 2009
If you plan on traveling to or staying in Latin America, do not drink the water out of the tap! The water usually isn’t potable because they don’t use the same type of water treatment plants as they do in the U.S. If you happen to accidentally drink the water out of the tap, you [...]
May 18, 2009
For your own safety, in the streets of Latin America there is one major thing you need to be aware of—pedestrians do not have the right of way. If a pedestrian walks across the street at a cross walk (2 solid parallel white lines) in the U.S., all vehicles must slow down to let the [...]
May 11, 2009
We will be talking about personal space this week. You may not have thought about it very much; however, you’ll know it exists after today. I don’t know how it is in other parts of the world, (those of you from Australia, England, and so forth can inform me) when people talk to each other [...]
May 5, 2009
The text for “Cinco de mayo” below is taken, with permission, from Mexonline.com
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The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The Fifth Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a [...]