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Mexico... exactly how dangerous is it right now?

  • I just got my TEFL certificate. Teaching English abroad is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I did my teaching course in Spain and although I left half my heart over in Spain, I still miss Mexico a LOT. I studied abroad there and I've thought of going there to teach. However, I've heard mixed things about Mexico and I'm a bit worried. I don't know what to believe. I'm not so afraid that I wouldn't go back, I just wanna know what I'm getting into. Ok, I've heard all this negative stuff about Mexico on the news, but I don't believe everything I see/hear on the news. This stuff really did happen but I feel like the news tends to blow violence out of proportion and I just don't trust our media. Furthermore, several of my best friends live down there and they've encouraged me to go back... I think, "My friends aren't stupid, and they wouldn't do anything to put me in danger." However, one of my best friends is Mexican, but doesn't live there now, and I was talking to him... he says that it really is dangerous, and the danger is real and not a media conspiracy or anything. I asked him how he knew and he said his family there says it is. When I heard all this negative stuff on the news, I thought it was baloney, but now one of my best friends is telling me this stuff. But some of my other best friends (who live there) are telling me I should return. I'm so confused!! This is how I got interested in TEFl, I'm not digressing, just some important background info: I studied abroad my last year of college (in Mexic actually), and it was my first time out of the country. All my life I'd longed to travel, see the world and I finally did it and it was amazing. Then I came back home and graduated from college and got REALLY depressed. I was so sad because I thought that my days of travelling and having adventures were over, and I wasn't ready to close the book on all that. Everyone told me it was time to settle down but I didn't want to have an ordinary, boring life and stay in one place. I found out about Teaching English abroad, and it was the answer to my prayers. I've done a bit of soul searching and had experiences and I feel like Mexico is where I belong and where I'm needed. I didn't believe the crap I saw on Fox news, but my close friend is telling me that Mexico has gotten dangerous, and that's making me scared. I would just like to know what I'm getting into. I clarify that even if Mexico IS dangerous, that doesn't mean that I wouldn't go. I often feel afraid, but I realize that sometimes you have to take risks in life. The difference is that you should know WHAT you're getting into. I speak fluent Spanish (actually I used to be a Spanish teacher). I'm from Florida, but people tell me I speak and write Spanish almost as well as a native speaker. BUT, I have red hair and freckles, and brown eyes (weird combination I know), so I kinda stand out. It never made me uncomfortable, but I always got a LOT of attention down there. This stuff I've haerd about Mexico breaks my heart, because I have strong emotional ties to that place. I'm feeling afraid to go back, but being afraid has never stopped me before. Like I said, I have done a lot of soul searching and I feel a sense of belonging there and a sense of purpose there. I was a teacher here in USA and I just don't belong here at all. I can't stand the school system in North Carolina, where I live now. I feel inept and unappreciated. My mom was a teacher in the school system here and she is ENCOURAGING me to go back to Mexico. She knows how bad the schools are here and understands what I went through. Some of the kids that I've dealt with in USA are downright hostile, hateful and abusive. My talents went to waste here and down there I feel like I'm needed and could positively impact someone. People tell me that instead of going abroad I should teach ESL here in the states but I am unhappy here. I know that some people want to immigrate here and they are welcome here imo (as long as they['re not bad people), but my heart is NOT in USA. Nobody understands how I feel!! I just wanna leave USA. I don't hate USA and I don't hate Americans, it's just that my heart is elsewhere. When I came back from Mexico I got really depressed because I had a rough time readjusting to American culture. Nothing wrong with American culture, I just couldn't readjust. Five years have passed and I still haven't readjusted. I don't wanna be here. Before I studied abroad down there, I had very similar feelings. I had all these faults and failures in USA but in Mexico I was able to fulfill my potential as a person. It was so awesome to go to another country, spread my wings and find out I could fly. But now I&#

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    you have many options I think, but if you do not feel safe in mexico, try other Latin American country more safe, what about Costa Rica, check this possibility www.glorychristianschool.com

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these troops (or fighting people) are looking for their enemy and are stopping everyone and anybody to confirm who they are at gun point (it's scary bc you don't know if they feel like killing or not) nobody is safe http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/22/mexico.kidnappings/index.html?hpt=T2 things like this article are a daily occurrence

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Hola. Wow. If you don't take risks....then you will never know will you?

OK. We are not going around dodging bullets every time we walk out the door here, but Mexico is a very dangerous country to live in and is becoming more so. The world-wide recession continues to be very deep here and has contributed to crime which has always been pretty high. President Calderón's government is at war with the drug gangs and the drug gangs are retaliating against innocent civilians. Some other people will come on here and tell you this is not true. These are people who either don't live in Mexico full time, are not fluent in Spanish, are upper class foreign retirees living in exclusive communities of their peers and are not in touch with what is going on or choose to deny it. If you want to work in a country besides the USA I do not recommend Mexico. As teacher you are much better off in N.C. than anywhere in Mexico. If you think teachers are poorly paid in the USA you should take a look at the salaries and benefits of Mexican public school teachers. You would not want to work in public schools. Some of the top private schools pay an alright wage, Colegio Americano, Colegio AngloAmericano, Westhill Institute, Colegio Peterson and similar schools around the country cater to the children of the extremely wealthy: TV personalities, politicians, magnates, drug lords. If you get a job as an assistant principal or principal of one of these you can do OK. I just cannot make a good argument for teaching or living in Mexico. I know several Americans who have tried to teach here and they found it frustrating both economically and professionally. I would rather work in NC.

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