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.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/zf7f8ybf/Jan-26-internship-1.jpg)
![](https://i.postimg.cc/FKC70f9B/Jan-26-internship-3.jpg)
Cristina came for her once a year visit to see her Dad.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/bwsXsdBJ/Jan-2021-Cristina-with-bus-money.jpg)
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!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/7YhtNdMt/Jan-26-4-bags-Alan-and-Ottoniel.jpg)
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!!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/Njdgn5K7/Olimpia-Jan-2020-grades.jpg)
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!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/y8mf6Zmc/Pablo-graduation-March-2019.jpg)
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!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/7YtfdsGW/Julian-apartment-Jan-2021.jpg)
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.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/L8ZQZWzd/Alexis-at-TEC.jpg)
Alexis at El Boleo in 2019. He works in the Finance dept.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/nhkTyQfz/Alexis-at-El-Boleo-2019.jpg)
[Edited on 1-27-2021 by BajaBlanca]