Education flows both ways in Mexico

Colorado college students spent three months in Mexico teaching English to middle school students. The college kids learned as much as the younger kids did. - - Donna Poisl

by John Peel

Poor people living in packed homes. Men pining for jobs in the rich country to the north. They'll walk across a desert with little water to get to those jobs, then send back most of their earnings to their families over the border.

The people have little to spare, yet give an inordinate share to a relatively wealthy visitor from the U.S.

Sounds like a difficult life, and perhaps it is, but this is what a bunch of young visitors from Southwest Colorado found in Mexico:"The happiest people I've ever met."

Those were the words of Sarah Gorman, one of 16 Fort Lewis College students who spent nearly three months in Mexico teaching English to middle school-aged students. They lived and taught during the week in host homes in small towns surrounding the larger city of Cuauhtémoc, about five hours south of the border in the state of Chihuahua.
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