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Reflecting on ICE

Reflexionando... Dije que este blog sería de mi viaje y mis aventuras, pero no puedo dejar de pensar en la situación que estamos viviendo, o mejor dicho, que estoy viendo. Son los pobres inmigrantes perseguidos por ICE quienes viven una situación terrible. Antes de venirme a la Ciudad de México, mi muchacha derramó algunas lágrimas al contarme cómo ICE perseguía a su marido para deportarlo. Por fortuna logró esconderse en casa de unos buenos norteamericanos donde trabajaba como jardinero. Ahora vive escondido con su hermano y su esposa vive con miedo todo el tiempo. Ya van dos choferes de Uber de la ciudad de México que me cuentan que fueron deportados. El domingo, camino al Zócalo para la feria del libro, nos tocó un chofer muy amable que compartió su historia. Es de los afortunados: no tenía antecedentes, firmó su salida voluntaria y estuvo detenido solo tres meses. Le devolvieron sus pertenencias y lo mandaron hasta Yucatán, en el sur de México. Como había enviado dinero a sus herma...
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Feria Internacional del Libro en el Zocalo

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 Hola, El sábado 17 de octubre tuve la oportunidad de presentar y firmar mi segundo libro, Mi primera mascota , en la Feria Internacional del Libro del Zócalo en la Ciudad de México. ¡Fue una experiencia inolvidable, ya que nunca antes había presentado en México! Llegar fue toda una aventura: entre el tráfico tremendo por el cierre de Reforma y el estrés de caminar a pie, ¡llegué con los nervios de punta! Menos mal que llevaba a mi GPS personal, mi esposo Gregorio, porque si no me hubiera perdido. No sabía qué esperar del evento, pero desoues de vender el primer ejemplar, todo comenzó a fluir. Me puse a charlar con los niños invitándolos a colorear una hojita con la portada del libro y a platicar sobre sus mascotas, lo que acercaba a los papás a conversar conmigo. Hablé con familias muy entusiasmados de que sus hijos aprendan el ingles. Felicite a varios padres por fomentar la lectura a temprana edad, ¡y lo mas divertido fue querian retratar conmigo como si fuera una persona famosa...
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Harris World Tour Part 2

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jueves, 15 de octubre de 2026 Hola: Hoy comienza el blog Harris World Tour Parte 2 . Para los nuevos lectores —o para quienes ya lo olvidaron—, va un poco de contexto: hace ocho años, mi familia y yo viajamos por el mundo durante un año. ¡Escrito suena a locura, pero sí, lo hicimos y ha sido una de las experiencias más increíbles de mi vida! Desde hace tiempo Gregory y yo queríamos la parte dos, pero siempre surgía algo en casa. Finalmente nos decidimos ahora que nuestros hijos ya son independientes y viven en Los Ángeles, CA. Sunshine se graduó en Historia del Arte el año pasado y trabaja allá, mientras que Daniel cursa su tercer año de Ingeniería Civil. Estamos en la etapa del nido vacío y, la verdad, ¡feliz de viajar con mi compañero de aventuras! Así pues, decidí renunciar a mi trabajo como maestra de español (¡aunque me costó trabajo tomar la decisión, ahora estoy feliz y más descansada!). Gregorio compró otro negocio, que puede hacer en línea desde cualquier parte del mundo; eso...
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What I Learned from This Trip

What have I learned from traveling for a year? The last homework assignment for my kids was an essay about what they learned about our trip around the world. I told them that Gregory and I had to do it as well. Here I am, in front of my laptop and not knowing what to start with. I know it will be me who has changed and not the people or the places around me. I know this by experience because I have been away before and I know that the biggest changes happen inside you, in the way you see things, your perspective changes and I believe that’s where the growing happens. Right now, we might not be able to see it because it is too soon, but once we go back to our routines and our daily old lives, we will see, feel and live the change. I’m happy to say that one of my biggest dreams was to travel around the world. I always wrote in my journal that I wanted to visit more countries or just travel more with my family, but I always wrote them as a wish, a dream and I never really worked to make ...
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Day 360 - Last day of the world tour. Flight back home

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 What a night! I hardly slept and woke up at 5:50am. I rested in bed until 6:15 and then I got up. We got ready and I went downstairs to check on Daniel. For some reason, I got lost so I came back upstairs to ask Gregory for directions and their room number. I finally found their room and was able to check on my baby. I could tell that he wasn’t feeling great but at least he didn’t have temperature and hadn’t thrown up. Sunshine and I brought their suitcases downstairs but of course, first we got lost, somehow we ended up on another floor. The whole hotel was weird, so we went upstairs to get Gregory and then, we finally made it to the first floor with the suitcases and then went by foot the last floor because the elevator didn’t go down all the way. That was the reason we got lost and ended in the garage! (Editor: I have no idea what she was trying to say there) Anyway, while we were bringing down the suitcases, Gregory called a Grab Taxi that came very fast an...
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Day 359 - Flight and Day in Manila - Last Day!

Monday, July 1st, 2019. Today we got up, had breakfast, and headed to the airport at 10:00am. The hotel staff was so sweet and wanted to take a picture with us before we left. We thanked them and then we got our free ride to the airport which was only 15 minutes away. We got there too early, but in Manila it took a while to get to the airport and go through security. This time everything went fast and smoothly. We sat in the waiting room for a while but the wait wasn’t bad because there was actually decent WiFi. At the airport, we saw a Spanish family that we had seen in El Nido and in the Butterfly Sanctuary in Puerto Princesa. Small world. The flight was pleasant and quick. Arriving in Manila is never fun because traffic is horrendous and we had to wait for a quite a while for our Grab taxi to pick us up even though the hotel was less than 1km away. Gregory got a hotel near the airport because we leave early tomorrow morning. Plus, we are not interested in seeing anything in Man...
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Day 358 - Beauty salon experience -Daniel gets a haircut

Sunday, June 30th, 2019. Oops, we woke up at 8:40am, breakfast is served until 9:00am but like Gregory pointed out, they normally leave it until 10:00am so he never rushes. We don’t touch the Philippino food because it is mostly meat. The kids only have cereal and fruit. We have never been excited about the food since we got to the Philippines but it is nice when breakfast is included and we don’t have to go out looking for food. In the morning, Gregory did some work, I caught up on the blog and the kids stayed in their room. I can’t believe that I had to force myself to go swimming but it is my only exercise and I have been feeling very lazy about it, so I did it. Once I’m in the water, I feel like a mermaid or a siren which is the same word in Tagalog and Spanish. At night we asked our driver to take us to Giligan's for dinner. It was just ok, Daniel was the only one who enjoyed his boneless chicken teriyaki. Have I mentioned that they served most of the meat with bones in the P...
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