A mango for the teacher
Subtitle: running the beach and running a school in Cancún's early days
By: Deborah Frisch ; illustrations by Arturo Avila
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Xicalango Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780615542232
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Friends and associates; Family; English teachers; Biography; Teacher-student relationships; Description and travel; Families; Friendship; Travel
Description: June, 1975 - With New York City deep in budget crisis, Deborah, a spirited young teacher of English as a Second Language, receives her third pink slip in two years. Her strongest ties to New York were cut when cancer claimed her mother, uncle and aunt. With no prospect of work, she takes off for the glorious Mexican beach she had stumbled upon three years earlier. At that time, the only trace of human intrusion near the beach was a wooden bridge with a hand-lettered sign reading, "CAN-CUN." During Deborah's second trip to Mexico, hilarious experiences follow harrowing ones. Once she reaches Cancún, it it's not long before everyone is calling her maestra. What begins with a class for four becomes a school for more than four hundred students, and her life expands to embrace an international circle of teachers and friends, an island, a husband and son, a sailboat, sharks and muchas aventuras.
Notes: Text in English with some Spanish words; Yucatecan dance tune in Spanish and translated in English by the author.