She's gone from farmworker to business owner to Spanish teacher, and she's not done yet
call the games in Spanish. I can understand most of the medical advice doled out on Farmacia Natural, a daily Spanish language radio program whose callers are prescribed oil of oregano and other natural cures for what ails them.I’d be better off if my father — whose parents were from Spain — had spoken to me only in Spanish when I was a kid. But he didn’t, so I took Spanish in school and had a private instructor for a while about 15 years ago.
“She’s laughing,” Hidalgo told me, holding her hand over the mouthpiece. But Garcia agreed to let me come by so she could take a look at the gringo with this crazy idea to study Spanish at a hair salon. Soon, I had the run of the place, with its religious wall hangings and figurines and scents of perms, polish and dyes. On one wall, Garcia has a photo of the pope and pictures of her three kids and six grandchildren, one of whom had just texted her from Texas to say hello.
Jesus Puga laughs with his daughter Anna-Marie Puga while waiting as his partner Angie Lopez, right, gets her nails done.“Sometimes I get emotional because I’m very sentimental,” said Avendano, who put me in her chair and gave me a great haircut at the men’s rate of just $12,“I love Maria like a second mother,” Avendano said, telling me she doesn’t know a better hair stylist or a kinder person.
Garcia spent her early childhood in Jalisco. When her father went north to work in the bracero program, she and her mom and siblings waited and waited for him to come back, then boarded a bus and moved to Mexicali, where he joined them for a time. She said she worked for 3½ years picking tomatoes, onions, lettuce and grapes. She worked in Yuma, Phoenix, the Imperial Valley, Sacramento and Modesto. Sometimes the farmworkers’ quarters were OK, sometimes not. Potable water was not always available, she said, remembering a time she had to bathe in a canal in Modesto.
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