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Boarding Schools For Girls. After my arrival in Cuernavaca and the lovely dinner at Vanessa’s aunt’s place the whole family took me to my temporary home for the next couple of days: Villa San Marcos is a bed and breakfast located in a historic mansion in an area just south of downtown Cuernavaca. The B&B has five beautifully decorated guest bedrooms, all with private bath, and a wonderful totally private garden with tropical plants, flowers and fruit trees. Free Internet access is available as well.

The owner, Marta Elena de las Fuentes, greeted me warmly and right away I was invited to join in a small private birthday celebration. (Marta Elena, an avid and very talented cook, had made this totally amazing mango birthday cake, it was absolutely delicious and would just melt in your mouth). During my travels I often run into interesting people, and Marta Elena, as I found out tonight, is one of those. She grew up in a very wealthy family in Torreón in northern Mexico and listening to Marta Elena’s childhood stories brings to mind images of the glamorous 1950s and 1960s, a time of jet-setting and entertainment among the very wealthy.

Even the story surrounding her infancy is very unusual: Marta Elena was adopted and her biological father was actually the nephew of her adoptive father. At 7 years of age she finally found out about her adoption through a young friend.

To illustrate her privileged upbringing, Marta Elena recounts an interesting story set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile crisis: while she was studying at an upscale boarding school in Paris as a teenager, all the foreign students received phone calls from their parents to return home due to the political insecurity. Marta Elena didn’t and decided that the world was going to end, so she figured she might as well go shopping.

So Marta Elena said she wanted to go to Rome to study Italian. Marta Elena loved Rome and had contact with many young people in Rome, mainly from upper-class families. Marta Elena’s father was a highly respected doctor and ran a medical clinic in Torreón. Then as a teenager she was sent to a nun’s school in Burbank, California, and completed that school in 2 years. To this day she speaks English amazingly well with barely an accent.

Her father gave her many opportunities, among others he sent her to European boarding schools. At 16 years of age she went to Paris to study at a very well-known boarding school called ‘l’Assomption”. Together with her friends, other girls from well-to-do Mexican families, they would go on different excursions around Paris on weekends and they would also explore neighbouring countries. Of her time in Paris Marta Elena says that she learned a lot, in particular from some of the older teachers, who had come from wealthy families, but had lost it all during the 2nd World War.

This message has stayed with her her entire life. In Mexico City she went on a blind date, and fell in love with the young man. Marta Elena has 3 children from this marriage: her oldest – a daughter, and two sons, all of whom she is very proud of. Once the family came, the international travelling stopped, but the family did visit her father’s ranch near Torreón every summer.
When her youngest son started going to school, she started volunteering in a hospital – the so-called ABC Hospital, the American British Cowdry, or as the Mexican’s called it: “El Hospital Inglés”.

To be closer to her daughter, Marta Elena gave in and moved to Cuernavaca 2.5 years ago. Without any trace of self pity Marta Elena refers to her life as a “from riches to rags” story. After her father’s death in the mid 1970s her mother managed the finances and many of the family’s assets were sold off right around the time of the devaluation of the Mexican peso, leaving the family with barely a fraction of their worth.

As a result, Marta Elena, who had never worked in her life, started to go to work at age 60 and has been running her bed and breakfast for about two and a half years now. As a matter of fact, Marta Elena runs her bed and breakfast with 5 bedrooms and a large tropical garden all by herself, without any regular help from anyone.
Marta Elena is definitely a unique and interesting individual who knows how to make her guests feel at home and I am looking forward to hearing more of her interesting stories. Find more information about Military Schools For Teens here.

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