News Flash 1

Fran at the end of a wonderful day spent with friends.

Hi Friends,

Fran is still enjoying her Christmas break from school. She'll be going back on January 29th! We will have some more definite news soon, but wanted to share that she will be getting her Mexican passport this Tuesday. She is going for the 10-year passport!  There's a chance she will be getting a visa to visit the United States either this year or next, but many details have to be worked out. Meanwhile, if the Trump era throws too many obstacles in her path, she realizes that she can visit other places, like South and Central America, Spain, Canada.

She has been doing consistently well in her studies and last semester was no exception. She has more than she needs to get into graduate school.

Another big pieces of news is that she had to decide before the beginning of the next semester whether she was going to pursue organic or non-organic agronomy. She said between 20 and 30 students chose organic (herself included) and the majority, about 80, chose non-organic.  What decided her was not me, though I did my best. What decided her was her father, who has never used any kind of pesticide on his orchards or crops in their village, so his advice was to forego the poisons!  An amazing man. He was the one who told his daughter to leave the village and go out into the world to make something of herself. And she certainly has.

Only 1.5 years to go until her degree!!!!

OK, signing off for now!
Stay tuned.