Expat Living

Ajijic will usher in the New Year with the Friday, January 1 wild and whacky Desfile de Año Nuevo, an event guaranteed to allay the worst possible morning-after funk.

The front garden of La Ola Home for Children was completely decked out for the second annual Toy Run on Saturday, December 19. Glittering ornaments hung in clusters on the grapevine and tree branches, and Santa’s red leather club chair waited next to the beautiful white Christmas tree. 

“It’s a good thing that Lake Chapala is the epicenter of serendipity and coincidence,” says artist Kim Tolleson, “because you sure can’t tell what will happen here next.” 

Lake Chapala Baptist 

“This week we talk about the birth of Jesus,” says Brother Bob Hendrick of the Lake Chapala Baptist Church. “Our focus, however, is not on a manger in Bethlehem, but rather on the story a twin brother named Jacob whose story leads to that manger and beyond. 

The board of the educational organization Niños de Chapala y Ajijic honored five volunteer English teachers and their students who have completed their current level of study in the extracurricular English classes during the group’s posada on Saturday, December 12. The language classes are held without cost for the financially challenged. 

Music, in all of its genres, thrives at Lake Chapala. The area seems awash with musicians of every ilk. It must be the laid-back nature of music makers that allow them to so easily flow into the rhythm of a new place, picking up companions and experiences like quarter note leads to the verse.