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life on the road

Just wanted to give you a bit of an update on the life on the road.

Life on the road is very bumpy. We've been travelling everyday and traffic
in Mexico is crazy! Good thing is that I'm with a really great group of recruiter from other Canadian universities so
we've been doing a lot of singing to old 80's songs in the Van.

The high school students in Mexico are incredible and I have to say, the
questions they ask and the level of maturity really blew my mind. Some of them even knew where Simon Fraser University was which is impressive (usually, everyone saids "UBC, McGill, U of T" and that's it for Canada). So far, all the students seem to think that Canada is entirely covered in ice...so I've still got some work to do.

I endured our longest drive today - a 3 hour trip to a spectacular campus
for the Marymount international school. The school is in an old colonial
estate built on top of the mountains. I've been relatively good (no motion
sickness) compared to other recruiters - 3 of them required some love and
care today.

We've also been stopped by police officers today on our way to Marymount on
suspicions of "people trafficing". We avoided a trip to the police station
by giving them $100US. They were then kind enough to give us a "reciept" in
case of more trouble down the road. Apparently if we were stopped again by
other police officers, we just have to tell them "code 17"...

more later...

posted by hikui @ 6:58 PM