Charlie's Digs

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Have you ever wondered why a jaguar has spots?

Why an eagle has dark feathers? And why a mother never knows if she is going to have a boy or a girl?

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Charlie Goff
Charlie Goff is an educator, tour leader, story teller, translator and interpreter of Mexican life and culture. He is a founder of the Cemanahuac Educational Community, a Spanish language school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He writes Charlie's Digs, a weekly column in The News, Mexico's largest English language newspaper. He can be reached at charlie@cemanahuac.com. Carol Hopkins, a Cuernavaca-based educator, collaborates with Charlie on this column.
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