Maria Socorro Martinez

Living in a Crystal Box (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Special circumstances force Socorro Camero Haro to accept a middle school teaching position in Doctor Arroyo, Nuevo León, México. At the time of her departure, her mother warns her: "Don't forget that you will live in a crystal box where everyone will see and judge what you do." Little did the recent graduate imagine how valuable this advice will be for her in the future.

Socorro had grown up in an environment of love and protection. Now she faces a world different from her own. In the 1950s, the young teacher faces the taboos of the small towns of that time: single, alone, living and working only with men. She lived in a remote town, with only dirt roads, no running water, and electricity limited to two hours a day. Socorro confronts the superstitions of the people and encounters the local villain, who is almost a legend. Several times, fate places her and her students in dangerous situations in which she must make instant and drastic decisions. The only communication with her family and her fiancé is by mail. Unforeseen problems affect her wedding plans. Within her loneliness, Socorro finds joy in her new friends and coworkers, the love of her students, and the satisfaction of seeing them excel.

The Director General has promised to bring her back to Monterrey soon. But will he keep his promise? Will she win the trust and affection of the townspeople? Will her love story survive? Will she get over the loneliness and the remoteness from her close-knit family?

In this book, we will find the young teacher facing the challenges, intrigues, and defects of a real world. This is a true story that will captivate the reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Maria Socorro Martinez
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005476984
• Artikelnr.: 72347993

Autorenporträt

María Socorro "Coco" Martínez, maiden name María del Socorro Camero Haro, is a freelance writer and author of a memoir.

Coco was born in San Luis Potosí, in the state of San Luis Potosí, México, but grew up in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. She worked as a teacher of grades seven through nine, as well as an Assistant Principal for a year, in a middle school in Doctor Arroyo, Nuevo León, México, from 1958 to 1962. She later taught in middle schools in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, from 1962 to 1966.

She then married Martín H. Martínez, a US Air Force member, and moved to the United States. She was a stay-at-home mom to her three children until she returned to work as a bilingual assistant at elementary schools in North East ISD in San Antonio, Texas, from 1985 to 2004.

Co-founder of the Spanish for Children program, National Autonomous University of México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), San Antonio, Texas, she led double summer sessions from 1988 to 1995.

Since 2002, she has worked part time for Tri-Lin Integrated Services in San Antonio, Texas, as a Spanish consultant and freelance writer of standardized test passages in Spanish for elementary students.

Living in a Crystal Box is her memoir describing her experiences as a young city girl facing the hardships and taboos of working as a teacher in Doctor Arroyo, a rural Mexican town, in the 1950s.