Amazing Experience Of International Living

Looking back four years to 2009, in reflection on New Years Eve

, moving to Mexico has been a journey in paradigm shifts. From banking to web site development to no more Nordstrom shopping, life has changed for the better. Many bumps along the way, many challenges both minor and major, an expansion in our family heart center. Adopting dogs who have been abandonned, watching my children make friends in a close knit community, learning to have confidence in a culture totally foreign to our American lives, and struggling with Spanish, this has been our 'unknown'.

They say playing in the 'unknown' is where the true miracles of life exist. In retrospect, I feel I must agree. I decided to jump into a new universe after two years of journaling and studying the international real estate market for a new home. I closed my business in 2007 after twenty years of designing womens' apparel. This prepared me financially and emotionally to make the leap into a new country but production and fashion design make no difference when it comes to learning a new culture. Now granted, I had Mexican employees and Asian employees but assimilating a family life into a new environment is training in patience, compassion and staying power and no amount of non-American employees can really take care of the learning curve. It is immersion. Strap a pair on and do it! One day at a time and one problem and accomplishment at a time.

The pluses have been plentiful surrounding our international living experience. My oldest discovered her core and dances into it daily teaching ballroom and salsa to internationals in San Miguel de Allende. She is on track to be a Master Examiner with Arthur Murray within six to seven years. Her goal: travel the world coaching, training and performing ballroom....and she did receive quite abit of static for quitting college with one year left. She will be making six figures before she is 30. We did not see that coming.

My second child comes back and forth, working in the US and working here independently writing and publishing her first book at 22. She is the most timid of the clan but when I lead by example to Mexico with no Plan B, she followed suit and took off for Greece to be coached by the best and her writing followed suit. She sees herself with no Plan B either and that life as a writer and artistic entrepreneur is her niche.

My two youngest have embraced Mineral de Pozos like nothing before in their young lives. Music and singing and acting with the local theater group for my daughter and horses, hens, and dogs for my son. They are a novelty but some how, Pozos accepts them as Mexican now. They have no desire to go back to life in the USA. Learning and homeschooling now focuses on project learning, building hen houses and model horse barn and corral, customer service in our family bed and breakfast, researching topics of their interest, writing about the escapades and out loud spelling bees.

We have all embraced the international living concept and it is now apart of who we are. Losing the previous paradigms has allowed us to laugh and loosen up the parameters of what life looks like. Some days we do not have electricity and it is no longer a big deal. Roll with it, is our motto. We consider our blessings daily and our purchase of Guanajuato real estate has proven to be a lucrative one.

by: Christian Pollard

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