Follow the lines going south

It's been a week now since we arrived in Oaxaca. The drive down along the Gulf Coast was long, but only because we had to hurry down and didn't really get to smell the flowers. The weather this time of year is just lovely, a bit hot midday, otherwise divine. We are staying in a new apt.,one of 3 that our boss is still having constructed down toward the opposite end of the beach. Yes that's right-still being constructed which means lots of cement pounding and drilling, ahhhh Mexico. The area where we're currently staying is locally known as "la punta"(the point)and it's super chill and in a very Mexican neighborhood (read: roosters, dogs, dust, other farm animals running free, and erratic early hours bass pumping) called Brisas Zicatela. We are staying there for our training period and then we'll move on to the school property, which is more spacious than we remembered. Although the house here at the school is tiny(smaller than some of your living rooms)but we don't want to be inside anyway and another bonus is that it has an herb garden and the property has a coconut tree, multiple papaya,lime, avocado and mango trees too. Training has been good and hanging with our boss has been really enlightening as he is an American with dual citizenship and he's lived here long enough to know every in and out of local Mexican politics on every level. Our administration work entails loads of details including all the fun accounting that goes along with running a business but it's not so bad. It will just take practice like anything else. Besides, we couldn't ask for a better work environment...it makes it lot easier to work on silly spreadsheets when you're surrounded by lush tropical flora and you can glance down and see the Pacific waters! As you probably know this beach is known for it's surf, the biggest in Mexico, so we were surprised to see that there is virtually NO surf right now. It's kind of strange but also kind of good for us since we're poor excuses for surfers anyhow it just means that we can swim and kayak, which is usually not an option on this beach because of the fierce swells and riptides. Yeah so we've got a lot of work ahead of us but we're looking forward to it. We have not yet taken any of the excursions that we'll be offering and guiding here(rock climbing, waterfall hike, unexcavated archaeological site, etc.)but that will be a great, fun learning experience too. Our Spanish is a bit rusty at this point but it's only been a week, soon enough that will flow too. It's pretty sweet to be back here though. Strangely enough, for Karlie, coming back here after being in CA actually felt less strange than going back to Austin but that's just because it's small townish (40k-80k no one knows) here in Puerto. What a week! So you're all up to date now and as always we love that you're taking the time to share our experience by reading our stories...stay tuned. One love .