You never really appreciate what you have, the liberties, luxuries, basic utilities and nice roads until you don´t have them so much. Or in limited supplies. I never thought much about how cool it is to be able to drive 55 or 60 mph on a smooth road until I moved to Mexico and have to drive much slower on slightly bumpy roads.
Being able to understand every word of a conversation is something I take for granted when I cross the Rio Grande River. When I go in to Mexico I wonder if I can understand what someone is saying to me.
There´s other things that we have in the US, but not so much in Mexico, or you have to pay for. Free Education is one of the myths, or lies of Mexico. It isn´t free, even if someone swears on their life it is. You have to pay to preregister your child in a school in the city where we live. Sometimes you pay for drinking water so your child can get a drink of water. I know, I have bought water once for a classroom. The quality also is not near what you have in the US. I thought the public school system in Carroll County, GA needed some help, until I learned how far behind a 7 year old or a 15 year old kid here is compared to one in Carroll County. Literacy rates are extremely low. Don´t believe any of the statistics you hear about literacy rates in Mexico. We live in a large city of 500,000 and have modern schools. Once you go out in the rural areas literacy rates plummet even further. We won´t discuss dropout rates.
Funny how one river divides two worlds, United States of America and Los Estados de Mexico. The roads are different, the lanuguage is not the same and the educational opportunities are not even close to the same standards.
Value your liberties and opportunities if you live in the US. Pray for more for our kids in Mexico.
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