Journey to Oaxaca 2012 Tales of my 4 month long internship in Oaxaca, Mexico

Journey to Oaxaca 2012

Tales of my 4 month long internship in Oaxaca, Mexico

The Beginning

 Oaxaca, Mexico  |  Apr 10, 2012

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Moving to Mexico for four months was never one of my life plans.  I was offered an internship with 

ProWorld’s marketing team in Oaxaca two weeks before my plane left to fly down.  It has been 

a roller coaster ride but I am very thankful for such an amazing opportunity.  My name is Erika 

and I am a recent college graduate from northern Minnesota.  As I sit here typing it is about 85 degrees 

here and about 45 at home.  I have noted a sort of mutual fascination between myself and the local 

Oaxacans that I find a little funny.  Walking down the street a lot of people look at me, probably annoyed 

by the blinding reflection of the sun off of my white skin.  I, in turn, look right back at them wondering 

how on earth they are wearing sweatshirts and black pants when it is 90 degrees out.  I do not fit in 

here, but that is part of the experience.  I have always been interested in travel and different cultures, 

and feel very lucky to be interning for a company that provides not only travel, but meaningful travel, 

allowing it’s participants to actually make a difference in the beautiful destinations they visit.  The staff 

here is super nice and very helpful when it comes to the language barrier I’m doing my best at dealing

 with.  I look forward to doing what I can for this company and learning as much as I can.  I know when I 

look back I will have lots of great stories to tell, and will shake my head thinking of how the time went by 

so fast.  For now, I will live one day at a time and be thankful for every minute I have in this beautiful city.

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