BajaBlanca - 1-26-2021 at 02:28 PM
It has been a busy couple of months with some students interning over the vacation.
JAVIER has been working since the beginning of December and here are some photos he sent.
Cristina came for her once a year visit to see her Dad.
Alen and his partner in the fish fertilizer business they started up about 6 months ago stopped by for drop off 4 bags that our neighbors who own
wineries in California will experiment with. This could be an important moment!
All the college students sent me their grades. Here are Olimpia's! She is finishing up her Law degree, internship is all she has left to do!!
Pablo, whom we have helped off and on throughout the years, asked if I could help him with his last trimester payment...he is getting his MASTERS!
Could not be prouder!!
Picture of him at his college graduation - next photo I post in 3 months will be the photo of him getting his Masters in Marketing. His store -
PLAYAS NEGRAS - was his college senior project in Santa Rosalia and he used it for his Master's classes. Such a smart kid!
Julian, who was sponsored by us, has gotten engaged to a doctor. His job with IMSS is in La Paz and she just got a position at the hospital in La
Paz.
They moved in together 2 weeks ago and he sent me a photo of their livingroom. I told him he sure has progressed since the college dormlike places he
lived in! Our "kid", my amigos, has grown up!
He and his fiancee are going to save up to buy their own place. I am so happy for them.
And on a sadder note. Last Sunday, another student who graduated at the same time Julian did, contacted me. He was totally distressed and rightly
so.
For the last 3 years he had been saving up every penny he could...his dreams were to travel, to take a really nice vacation, to buy himself a much
needed car and eventually to buy his home in Santa Rosalia where he works at El Boleo.
Someone convinced him to buy company shares in a start up and HE LOST ALL HIS MONEY. The kid was besides himself.
It is his own fault and he knows that nothing can be done - he consulted with an attorney who told him the money is gone gone gone and nothing can be
done.
After my very sad heart could write, I told him that he is not the first nor the last to suffer such hardship. I recommended he invest in dollars or
gold. I am not sure that is possible here, but in Brazil it is and waaaay back in the day, that is where I kept my money invested.
He had saved (and subsequently lost) over $140,000 pesos! three years of blood, sweat and tears. Heartbreaking.
He says he felt much better after chatting with me. For a while, he was inconsolable. He said he cried many tears.
Here is a photo of Alexis one of his first days in college. Les took this picture of Alexis and I! How proud I was.
Alexis at El Boleo in 2019. He works in the Finance dept.
[Edited on 1-27-2021 by BajaBlanca]