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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project also gave some of the American students the opportunity to interact one on one with Mexicans. "I had particular fun with the kids and I realized that there was something wrong with one of them," Miller explained, saying that this child wheezed and the other kids made fun of him. "When I flew back to the States I was really bothered by this kid still being back there, having trouble breathing...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...sister section of Opus Dei also sponsors a project in Mexico, Wills says, "It's simpler for me to make it single sex. There are difficulties with women as far as housing since our dorm [in Mexico...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

This summer, the participants will teach English to poor teenagers in Mexico City through an intensive language course. "Our goal is to achieve fluency in seven weeks," Palos says. Once again, the project's goal is very ambitious. Palos explains that seven weeks is currently considered by professionals to be the minimum time in which fluency can be achieved...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...asking what to do this summer," Wills explained of his choice for this year's project, "and a teacher in a peasant village told me `Teach kids English and we'll fill the place...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

Duncan says that to teach English, the project this year is taking down 20 students, to be chosen from an estimated pool of four times as many applicants. But Wills says that, if necessary, "we can go up to 40 people...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

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