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catelin ([personal profile] catelin) wrote2004-09-02 08:33 pm

Numbers and Faces

War would end if the dead could return.----Stanley Baldwin


Abre los ojos.
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[identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com 2004-09-08 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Cool! How long are you there for? And why? (Me being nosy!) I really miss Mexico a lot. I love that country so much. : )

[identity profile] papasfritas.livejournal.com 2004-09-08 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm here for another 3 weeks, but I've been here for 3 already. I'm a Comparative Literature major at the University of Washington with a minor in Spanish (I would have a double major, but I don't have enough time), so I'm taking an intensive Comp Lit class at an institute in Mexico.

What's your background with Mexico? I always love talking about It! : )
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[identity profile] catelin.livejournal.com 2004-09-09 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually have a M.A. in Spanish Literature & Linguistics. I "took a break" from working on my Ph.D. at USC to go to law school and got bit by the trial lawyer bug. I still have delusions about finishing one day (I, too, was going the Comp. Lit. route!)

I've been to Mexico as often as possible since I was about 15, sometimes as a student and later as a teacher. I later began doing a lot of work with Mexican migrant workers who were infected with HIV/AIDS, so I traveled and worked quite a bit with different offices within the Secretaria de Salud...mostly in San Luis Potosi and Michoacan. After I had kids, my travel slowed to a small trickle, but I still go whenever I can.