My name is Adam,and along with my fiancée Lindsay, I lead one of our road teams. We just joined the Absolute team in January of this year, and we are really excited to be a part of everything. It has been a couple of weeks of steady shows for us… a lot of fun… […]
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I’ve been living in Mexico for just about 2 weeks now, and the entire time it has been a complete whirlwind of awesome experiences. We started it off with a 7 day aid road trip down the Baja. Apparently Absolute hasn’t heard of starting off with the easy stuff, they’re more the “throw ‘em in […]
...continue readingSo we get to Mexico and our first week here we get to travel with a group of 20 people down south on the Baja. We had a very dynamic, diverse group: seven Mexicans, three Americans and nine people from Absolute. We were fortunate enough to have a retired nurse from Victoria agree to accompany […]
...continue readingThe town was El Barril, a small fishing village on the Sea of Cortes around 5 hours away from any major city or paved road. We had driven on dirt roads through the beautiful mountains and desert of the Baja to get there. With absolutely no previous English teaching experience between any of us, Kristi, […]
...continue readingOur first experience of Mexico was taken as a road trip down the Baja Peninsula. It was something even an amnesiac could not forget. it wasn’t as if we brought a child back from the brink of death, or saved an old widow from starvation. Certainly nothing to be put up there with Mother Teresa […]
...continue readingStarting things off right in Mexico - Tortillas and Beans!
Published by February 14th, 2009 in Mexico. 0 CommentsOver this past week a group of 21 of us got the chance to participate in a once in a lifetime experience. After lots of packing, organizing, meeting and snacking we packed up into four vehicles and began a trip to the southern part of the Baja. We were all eager to see what […]
...continue readingThe snow is gone and it is now 25 degrees out!
Published by February 2nd, 2009 in Mexico. 2 CommentsThe School of Leadership Students have arrived safely in Mexico! After traveling for approximately twenty-two hours, the vehicles finally pulled down the little dirt road towards the ‘new home’. Friday we had a brief orientation, checked out the local candy store, spend some time on the beach, and hit up the best taco stand in […]
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